Sammy Sosa's Great White Hope
Mansfield Frazier is a native Clevelander and former newspaper editor. His regular column can be seen on CoolCleveland.com. An avid gardener, he resides in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland with his wife Brenda and their two dogs, Gypsy and Ginger.
The former baseball star plans to market a skin-lightening cream that worked miracles on him. Mansfield Frazier says it's self-hatred in a bottle.
Skip, You Mouthed Off
Mansfield Frazier is a native Clevelander and former newspaper editor. His regular column can be seen on CoolCleveland.com. An avid gardener, he resides in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland with his wife Brenda and their two dogs, Gypsy and Ginger.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. forgot what black parents have always told their children: Don't display anger at the police. But anyone, black or white, who mouths off to an officer will end up in handcuffs, says Mansfield Frazier.
The Week in Outrageous News
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Though the week was dominated by Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court hearing, there were plenty of other memorable moments, from David Brooks' inappropriate PDA to Barney Frank's saucy Daily Show appearance. Here are nine of our favorites.
As Obama addresses the 100th convention of the NAACP on Thursday, I would recommend reading The Souls of Black of Folk, written by W.E.B. Du Bois, the founder of the association. It is as fresh and contemporary and enduring a classic as ...
Patricia J. Williams is the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster's Egg; and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. She is a also a columnist for The Nation.
Who Needs the NAACP?
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
As it celebrates its 100th year, the NAACP is at a crossroads. The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin talks to up-and-coming black leaders about how the organization can re-invent itself for a new generation.
The NAACP at 100
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As the NAACP celebrates its centennial at this weekend's national convention-where Barack Obama will speak-The Daily Beast looks back on its extraordinary history. VIEW OUR GALLERY
NAACP co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois and other members at the 20th-annual convention in 1929.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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