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Reporter's Notebook: Controversy over Paisley's 'Accidental Racist'
One sobering aspect of the heated debate on TV, radio, the Internet, Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere over Brad Paisley’s song “Accidental Racist” from his new “Wheelhouse” album is that in 2013 it’s still controversial...
Tags: Lynyrd Skynyrd (music group), Radio, Barack Obama, Social Media, Music
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Fire department to cut diversity-minded recruitment division
A Baltimore Fire Department division developed to increase recruitment among black city residents and combat racial tensions within the department's ranks is set to be eliminated in a planned round of budget cutbacks. The move has caused concerns...
Tags: NAACP, Layoffs and Downsizing, Minority Groups, U.S. Department of Justice, Budgets and Budgeting
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Opening at Carmike: '42' is film worthy of legend
Opening Friday: 42 Jackie Robinson has long been an elusive presence in contemporary American cinema, as filmmakers tried and failed to bring his life story to the screen. Brian Helgeland has finally succeeded in "42," a stirring, straightforward...
Tags: Literature, Justice and Rights, Lou Taylor Pucci, Entertainment, Civil Rights
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Did we learn anything from the subprime loan crisis?
A dangerous confluence of recent business stories have been attention grabbers. First, the Obama administration announced an initiative to ensure more home loans for those with weak credit. Then, a number of prominent economists issued forecasts...
Tags: Justice and Rights, U.S. Congress, Civil Rights, Investments, Human Interest
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Ron Kaye: Zareh Sinanyan admits racist remarks, expresses regret
It was a week Zareh Sinanyan will never forget. The man who left the Soviet Republic of Armenia as a 14-year-old a quarter century ago took his seat as a Glendale City Councilman on Monday, faced harsh criticism from residents during public comment on...
Tags: Politics, Islam, Local Elections, Elections, Religion and Belief
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The signature shot and its creator
You know the shot. Spike Lee has made it his signature visual flourish: the moment when a character (sometimes two, though usually one, isolated in a state of transcendence) appears to be floating through a room or down a sidewalk, reckoning with his or...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Malcolm X, Movies, France, Entertainment
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Stephen Colbert parodies 'Accidental Racist' with 'Oopsie-Daisy Homophobe'
RedEyeI don't know of anyone who actually likes the Brad Paisley-LL Cool J track "Accidental Racist." But Stephen Colbert may have expressed his displeasure best. "This song suuuucks," he said on Wednesday night's edition of "The Colbert Report" on Comedy...Tags: The Colbert Report (tv program), AIDS, Madonna, Comedy Central (tv network), Starbucks Corp.
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Stephen Colbert sings a sour note for 'Accidental Racist'
Brad Paisley's controversial song "Accidental Racist" was subjected to an intentional scorching by Stephen Colbert. Colbert on Wednesday's "The Colbert Report" went after the song in which Paisley questions assumption about race relations. In the song,...
Tags: The Colbert Report (tv program), Music, Entertainment, Starbucks Corp., Brad Paisley
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Seton coach fires back at IHSA in statement
Special to the TribuneSeton boys basketball coach Brandon Thomas issued a lengthy statement Friday disputing several claims the Illinois High School Association made Wednesday when announcing sanctions against him for his actions during the Class 2A championship game against...Tags: Illinois High School Association, High School Sports
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D304 auctions Coultrap items, and more
News briefs from the Tri-Cities and Elgin. Geneva D304 auctions Coultrap items Before Coultrap School is demolished, District 304 officials are offering residents the chance to bid on its desks, chairs, coat racks, glass doors, tables and other...Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Bars and Clubs, Laws, Festive Events
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'Oblivion' opening at Carmike on Friday
Opening Friday Oblivion Early in the sleek sci-fi thriller ‘‘Oblivion,’’ Tom Cruise, as a flyboy repairman living a removed, Jetsons-like existence above an invaded and deserted Earth, intones his home sickness. ‘&...
Tags: Star Wars (movie), Science and Technology, Entertainment, Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Meloni
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George McArthur dies at 88; L.A. Times Saigon bureau chief during Vietnam War
George McArthur, who covered the Vietnam War for the Los Angeles Times as Saigon bureau chief after spending two decades as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, died Friday. He was 88. McArthur died at a hospice in Fairfax County, Va., of...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Korean War (1950-1953), Wars and Interventions, Journalism, International Military Interventions
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