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For candy-maker, Nelly endorsement could be sweet or sour
Hip-hop endorsements have taken a couple of high-profile hits lately, with major companies cutting ties to artists whose work has been criticized as degrading to women. But Just Born Inc. is embracing the culture, touting on Tuesday its new marketing...
Tags: McCormick Place, National Basketball Association, Entertainment, Reebok Ltd., Nelly
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Kanye West renounces celebrity status at New York City concert
Someone alert the paparazzi: Kanye West is not a celebrity, and you guys can pack up and go home. Nothing to see here. That was the intended takeaway, at least, from another classic-Kanye monologue during West's set Thursday night at the Roseland...Tags: Kanye West, New York City, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Entertainment, Adult Swim (tv network)
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PepsiCo-Lil Wayne split marks shaky alliance of rappers, business
Corporations are quick to recruit rappers to sell their soft drinks, shoes and smartphones — but the moment there's a whiff of controversy, they are just as quick to cut them loose. The latest example is PepsiCo and Lil Wayne. Last week, the...Tags: Adidas AG, Poetry, Entertainment, Meek Mill, Food Industry
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Lil Wayne, PepsiCo's Mountain Dew part ways after controversy
In a week that has already seen PepsiCo pull an ad developed by Odd Future ringleader Tyler, the Creator, the beverage giant is severing ties with another rapper, Lil Wayne. PepsiCo announced it has ended its partnership with the rapper over a vulgar...Tags: Poetry, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Reebok Ltd., Abusive Behavior
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Cool Classics! hits close to home with schoolchildren
Mara Tapp was driving through the North Kenwood neighborhood on Jan. 29 when she saw a swarm of police cars. She knew something was wrong but continued to the after-school class she teaches at nearby Reavis Elementary. She would later learn that the...
Tags: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Students, University of Chicago, Teaching and Learning, Jonylah Watkins
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Lil Wayne apologizes to Emmett Till family
Months after Lil Wayne created a firestorm for lyrics that name-dropped slain civil rights figure Emmett Till along with a vulgar sexual reference, the rapper has formally apologized to Till’s family. In a letter sent to the Till family, which...
Tags: Poetry, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Reebok Ltd., Karate
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Orlando marketer works to bring recognition to slain civil-rights icon Medgar Evers
"Man has not until this day, done what God would have us do. That is, love our neighbor as ourselves, especially if one neighbor happens to be black, and the other neighbor white." — Medgar Evers 1963 was an eventful year in America — one...Tags: Robert DeLaughter, Entertainment Events, Nobel Prize Awards, Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP
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Kanye West reveals June 18 as ... something
Kanye West took to Twitter on Thursday morning for a major announcement: "June Eighteen." And that's it -- no context, no explanation, no additional clues as to what that date might bring. Is it the release date for his new album, which Pop & Hiss...Tags: Kanye West, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Twitter, Inc., Kim Kardashian
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Anne Frank and Emmett Till meet in AAPACT play
Staff WriterShe was not thinking of writing a play about Anne Frank and Emmett Till. Janet Langhart Cohen was just enjoying her life in Washington D.C.’s social whirl as the wife of former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Senator William S. Cohen. But she did,...Tags: Langston Hughes, Religion and Belief, Kensington, Judaism, Ku Klux Klan
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Pulitzer finalist Wadada Leo Smith symbolizes Chicago jazz power
Ever since the late 1990s, the forces behind the Pulitzer Prize in music have tried to push the award outside the narrow precincts of classical composition. On Monday, the Pulitzers made the next dramatic step in that evolution, with jazz musician...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events, The New York Times, Entertainment, Music Industry
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Mahalia Jackson, Kanye West, Fine Artists, Elizabeth II, Harold Washington Library Center
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Rick Ross apologizes for lyric 'interpreted as rape'
For the last week Rick Ross has been engulfed in a firestorm over recent lyrics that seemingly promote date rape. Although the track, "U.O.E.N.O." (a collaboration with Future and Atlanta emcee Rocko; warning: link contains profanity) has been out for...Tags: New York City, Kanye West, Poetry, Radio, Entertainment
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