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After a hearing in the House of Representatives, the Department of Homeland Security was forced to release their list of hundreds of words that will trigger analysts to monitor behavior online. Naturally, the list contains words such as Al Qaeda, terrorism, and bomb, but there are some rather...

Auto legend Carroll Shelby died Thursday night at Baylor Hospital in Dallas at the age of 89. Carroll Shelby's shadow stretched out Texas tall across nearly the whole of the world's automotive landscape. A natural as a race driver, he won three U.S. sports-car championships in Ferraris and...

The 2Pac hologram & our unwillingness to let rap’s most beloved icon rest in peace What the Tupac hologram says about our unwillingness to let rap’s most beloved icon rest in peace http://www.avclub.com/articles/what-the-tupac-hologram-says-about-our-unwillingne,73539/ What does it say...

Hip-hop sold out on its own terms. R&B on somebody else’s. (Reading required warning) Rhythm and Bullshit?: The Slow Decline of R&B, Part One http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/050603-randb Yeah, I’m nostalgic: When Mary J. Blige first uttered the opening lines to “You Remind Me,” it was...

"Chemically... black fat may be the same as white fat. Culturally it is not." Black Women and Fat By ALICE RANDALL http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/opinion/sunday/why-black-women-are-fat.html?_r=1&smid=pl-share&pagewanted=print FOUR out of five black women are seriously overweight. One out...

http://www.hiphopisread.com/2012/04/secret-meeting-that-changed-rap-music.html?m=1 "The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation" This anonymous letter landed in my inbox about a minute ago: Hello, After more than 20 years, I've finally decided to tell the world what...

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International Workers' Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, the Chicago police fired on a public assembly during a general strike for the eight-hour workday killing dozens of demonstrators.

Our “white people problems” problem: Why it’s time to stop using “white” as a pejorative http://www.avclub.com/articles/our-white-people-problems-problem-why-its-time-to,72974/ About a month ago, when Mad Men returned from its long hiatus and the Internet exploded with reviews, interviews...

Top 5 lists Rules are a little different for this installment because these should be movies that haven't come out yet. Please try to post a trailer of the movie you are anticipating (obviously some will not be available yet, but when they are please include them.) The object is still to...

Think you’ve tasted the famous Japanese Kobe beef? Think again. Of course, there are a small number of you out there who have tried it – I did, in Tokyo, and it is delicious. If you ever go to Japan I heartily recommend you splurge, because while it is expensive, it is unique, and...

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The War Against Youth The recession didn't gut the prospects of American young people. The Baby Boomers took care of that. By Stephen Marche James Victoire Published in the April 2012 issue Twenty-five years ago young Americans had a chance. In 1984, American breadwinners who were...

http://www.avclub.com/articles/michael-k-williams-is-going-to-play-ol-dirty-basta,71333/ After years of providing inspiration to the highest corridors of power as The Wire’s Omar, Michael K. Williams will further his good deeds by playing another man who was always for the children...

Her psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats It has a fair claim to be the ugliest philosophy the postwar world has produced. Selfishness, it contends, is good, altruism evil, empathy and compassion are irrational and...

Top 5 lists Pretty simple This is going to be a recurring opportunity for people in this forum to offer a list of their Top 5 films or things related to a film within a certain genera or subject (ex. Top 5 Gangster Movies, Top 5 Performances by a Rapper, Top 5 De Niro scenes, Top 5 Space...

NBC's Thursday night lineup—Community, 30 Rock, The Office, Up All Night, and Parks and Recreation—is hilarious. Why is no one watching? Community returns to NBC's Thursday night lineup this week, and all is right again with the (TV) world. When the network unceremoniously pulled the quirky...

Some products of popular culture become unassailable parts of the canon (think Citizen Kane or The Wire); others develop more dubious reputations. In Down Is Up, The A.V. Club attempts to explain why it isn’t entirely crazy to go against conventional wisdom. Sandwiched between the...