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Keyshia Cole: Hell's Angel
It's 1998. Keyshia Cole is 16 and on her own. She should be in the 10th grade.
Brandy
and Monica are big with "The Boy Is Mine." Janet Jackson has "I Get So
Lonely." It's been more than a decade since the start of the crack
tsunami, and the Oakland Unified School District has experienced
triple-digit increases of assaults, sex offenses, and drug and alcohol
offenses. Clinton cops to Lewinsky. The hot new show is HBO's Sex and the City.
Keyshia
walks in to a West Oakland recording studio at about two in the
morning. Alicia Keys is at work in one of the rooms, as is D'wayne
Wiggins of the recently disbanded East Oakland R&B group Tony!
Toni! Tone!... (read more)
From the Blogs
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Speak Easy
A couple weeks ago, my boys and I were down in New Orleans. The last night of our weekend, my boy Velz gets a call at 3 in the morning from this girl (read more) -
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Since the first National Hip-Hop Political Convention was held in Newark New Jersey in the summer of 2004, young voters have come to the polls in big (read more) -
The Nappy Diatribe
(Obama campaign Manager David Plouffe pictured) A long time ago, in a galaxy strikingly similar to the one in which we already live, your favorite (read more) -
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So many race polls, so little insight. Today's sober NY Times poll on the presidential election and race relations comes to the very same conclusions (read more)
