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By Omar Shabazz
After spending the night and weeks prior to the occupation losing sight of the value of sleep by working on my thesis (In hopes of a publication), I’m glad that I fell into a voluntary coma instead of going to “Occupy Cleveland.” All of my admiration for the extremist of love, Cornel West, does not shine upon the hundreds that have filed out to this protest or the one on Wall Street.
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By Sade Hale
I still remember the first time it happened.  The first time I was accused. The first time in my life I felt like I had to explain myself to someone. To explain myself to someone just because of the way I spoke.  I was accused of “talking white.”  The accuser insisted that I stop “sounding white and start sounding like a black girl.”
This is not just an issue that I faced personally, but it is an issue encountered in the African American community. Many African Americans are accused …

This is the final weekend for the African Community Theater’s production of “Wine in the Wilderness,” directed by Francis Dorsey. And even though this play is over 40 years old, don’t think you can’t learn anything from it you can’t use today.

D’Angelo McCornell recently found himself in a scandal after he won the election to become USG’s new Director of Community Affairs. He agreed to sit down with us and elaborate on the situation. Watch the interview after the jump.

In light of how out of control the Lil’ Kim x Nicki Minaj beef has gotten since Kim dropped “Black Friday” last week, our staff writer Brooklyn Mitchell has a few things to say about how black women are acting toward one another these days.