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The Invisible Black Man Speaks – Mida

Baltimore seems to be the great Black dream: the mayor is Black, the Chief of Police is Black and about half the police force (including some of those charged with Freddie Gray’s death) are Black. All this under a twice-elected Black President. Yet things are clearly going south. What’s going on?In a word? Class. Eugene…

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It is ON! Essence Forum Discussion on Bene Viera’s Thought Policing

Updated July 28, 2014 A few years ago, I started a discussion at the Essence.com community forum entitled Should a Black Man Be Allowed to Disagree? What set it off was Bene Viera and some others deciding that Obsidian didn’t have the right to speak his mind about the state of relationships in the African American community.…

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Obsidian’s Blog Update

Obsidian has made a post in the Spearhead about what happened with his blog, and what he’s going to do now.