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Gilbert Arenas just can’t help himself. The basketball star, already under investigation for bringing guns to the locker room, made a bad situation worse by imitating gunfire before last night’s game. This proved to be too much for league commisoner David Stern to handle, and he has suspended Arenas indefinitely without pay. If the suspension [...]
Last week I wrote about Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who held the first public gay commitment ceremony in Malawi’s history. (Monjeza is on the left, Chimbalanga on the right) At the time, I mentioned how their bravery in stating their love for each other, considering that homosexuality is illegal in Malawi. The BBC reports [...]
Sly Stone is an artist you should already be familiar with. As the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, he fused rock, soul, and pop to capture the public imagination and was a prime example of black music’s increasing sophistication. His commercial peak was between 1968 and 1973, when he recorded classics such as [...]
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