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Magic Johnson's steps to becoming a business mogul: Number 1 -- be really, really good at basketball...

Tufts University needed a panel to tell them that editors at a conservative student journal harassed blacks when they printed this "parody" Christmas carol. [SCT]

Magic Johnson offers young entrepreneurs the tools he used to succeed in business, but I'm not sure things will sail as smoothly for people who haven't already racked up millions in the NBA. [OS]

Lucille Clifton is the first black woman to receive the Ruth Lilly prize — one of the highest poetry honors. [CBC]

Black Lawyers for America are boycotting the Jamestown 2007 festivities because they say it "whitewashes" the event that brought colonialism to America. Isn't this what I've been saying? [IHT]

Human resources employees at Cisco Systems need some diversity training, says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. [SFEx]

May 11, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 1 Response

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Tagged: Black Lawyers For America, Books, Business, Cisco Systems, Education, EEOC, Jamestown, Lucille Clifton, Magic Johnson, Minority Report, Poetry, Racial Jokes That Aren't Funny, Tufts University

Comments (1)

No. 1 · ronnie

The Tufts thing is reprehensible. I can't believe I hadn't heard about that before this post.

Lucille Clifton is fantastic. In a memorial service for VA Tech held on our campus, a professor closed with her 9/11 poem, "September's Song, A Poem in Seven Days." This is wonderful news.

Somehow I don't see Rita Dove (former U.S. Poet laureate, and black woman) throwing books around and screaming at her publicist, "That bitch! I am a far better poet than she is! What does she have that I don't have! I've got hips! I've got hips!"

Who knows. Maybe that does happen. It certainly would be entertaining.

Posted: May 12, 2007 at 12:09 pm

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