• Barack Obama is "grounding his lofty rhetoric in the more prosaic language of white-working-class discontent," and although I'm not sure what that means. I'm not sure I'm supposed to. [NYT]

• That Columbia professor who was a victim of a noose hanging (back when nooses were sweeping the nation), was also accused of plagiarizing from a bunch of other scholars, which makes some people suspicious about the origins of that noose. [NYM]

• Dammit, Google gets me every time. [MG]

• Alphonso Jackson, the recently resigned HUD secretary, blamed the the subprime mortgage crisis on Yuppies, Buppies, and Guppies. [QT]

• So this thing between Tracey Edmonds and Rocco DiSpirito is really happening, I guess. [CL]

• 50 Cent says he'll allow his consistency to destroy his rap enemies — I think. He's even harder to understand with those new veneers. Cord says he sounds like he's wearing vampire teeth. [MTV]

• Beanie Sigel's going to jail for three months for failing his parole pee test. [XXL]

• Reggie Bush doesn't discourage Kim Kardashian from eating her beloved junk food. He likes her just the way she is! Plus, if she loses that ass, he's outta there. [People]

• College kids love them some blackface, man. [EUR]

• Apparently, Turkey is the place to be for African American students studying abroad. [TZ]

• Whoopi Goldberg's bringing a musical about Ada "Bricktop" Smith, who I really should have written a "Daily Dose of BHM" about, to Broadway. [EUR]

• Akon's releasing a country album that no one will buy. [C&D]

• 50 Cent is now torn between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. What on earth will we do? [MTV]

• Black suicides on the rise? That sucks. [NPR]

• Brooklyn rapper Papoose plans to marry his lover Remy Ma while she's in prison. In other words, he's riding on the coattails of her publicity. [MTV]

• Maya Angelou turns 80 and publishes a scrapbook the details her fantastic life. [USAT]

• Ice Cube is starring in a new movie with the word "janky" in the title. [EW]

• Bounty Killer continues to get backlash from the gays, but it hasn't made him change his lyrics up to this point… [QT]

• The NAACP in Florida faces facts — that sagging pants laws are discriminatory. No matter the race of the people who propose them. [WITNTV]

• Jill Scott's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was watched by 27 percent of the population when it aired in the UK. [EUR]

• Oh, Coco. I hope it's worth it. [Bossip]

• More on Suge Knight's trainwreck. I mean, reality show. [HR]

• The Council for Unity, an anti-gang group, actually effects change. Cool. [MSNBC]

• Yep, it's about that time for Nicole Richie to announce some new project. [PH]

• So it's come to this now. [JJP]

• Whatever, it's not like this is a big surprise or anything. Thank you, America. [Racialicious]

• The second of the Boondocks lost episodes, aka the ones BET didn't want you to see, is here. [WSHH]

• Shar Jackson needs to stop. Then again, maybe she feels like K-Fed has been punished enough. [NYDN]

• R.I.P. Ivan Dixon. [NPR]

• Oprah Winfrey's being sued by a woman who claims she came up with the idea for the Oprah's Big Give and a woman who claims she sustained serious injuries while attending a taping of Oprah. These are just two of the many, many lawsuits that get filed against this woman a month. [EUR]

• Speaking of lawsuits, the victim in Remy Ma's shooting case has decided not to sue the rapper for $80 million she doesn't have. I guess she figured jail was enough. [AHN]

• Alicia Keys will star in three-minute, Dove-sponsored soap operas that will air during commercial breaks of The Hills. Interesting career move. [HR]

• Condi Rice to Barry Obama: Sorry about that security breach. [MSNBC]

• Meet the Browns might get overshadowed by Horton Hears A Hoo this weekend. [EW]

• The cast of the new spin-off of 90210 will be more diverse than the original. All the producers will have to do is cast one minority to make it more diverse than the original. [EUR]

• The judge is letting T.I. leave his house arrest in order to attend Easter service. I'm sure he's very much in need of some church. [XXL]

• I pity the fool that doesn't go to see the John-Singleton-directed A-Team movie. [Defamer]

• Lost's Harold Perrineau perpetuates that black-people-aren't-buoyant stereotype. [SP]

• Lil Kim is none too pleased that the chick that got kicked out of 3LW is playing her in the Biggie movie. [SOHH]

• The Boondocks episode that will never air because the Cartoon Network deemed it a leeeeetle too critical of BET for comfort, has now been leaked in is entirety. Watch and laugh. [SOHH]

• Snapshots from Kanye West's blog: a homemade, four-passenger spaceship! Multiple pictures of it! [KW]

• Oh, this is just bad. So so bad. [C&D]

• Al Sharpton says he never endorsed Barack Obama because he would hurt him as much as he helped him. At least he knows himself. [NYDN]

• The ads MSNBC used during their live stream of Barack Obama's speech today were inspired. [VW]

• Speaking of Barack Obama's speech today, here's where to go if you missed it. [BO]

• Mariah Carey says she's not a moron, but she is a big prude. [MTV]

• Day 26, the new Making the Band band, just released their new video. Also, I have it on good authority that the Sean John store in NYC has officially run out of "Bitchassness" T-shirts. [CL]

• David Paterson is officially the governor of New York. Good riddance, Spitzer. [NYT]

• It makes me sad that kids today don't know what the real Real World was like. Look these fools. [MG]

• LeBron James is the first black guy to grace the cover of Vogue, but the imagery could have been a bit less stereotypical, right? [Racialicious]

• New music from Rihanna. I bet it's Chris Brown's new favorite song. Awwww…. [SR]

• The Game don't stop.

• It's a sad state of affairs when ticket sales plummet after Jay-Z's named the headliner of a music festival. [SP]

• Ten reasons to set your Myspace page to private. [MTV]

• Obama's Mama: a very interesting woman. [NYT]

• Watch Black Magic, the new ESPN basketball documentary, this Sunday. I've heard good things. [ESPN]

• Snoop really markets himself relentlessly, doesn't he? I guess that's why he's still in the game after all these years. [AHH]

• This woman was cursed to become an insane MJ stalker the second her mother named her Billie Jean Jackson. [SP]

• Melanie Brown used her evil feminine wiles to trick Eddie Murphy into not using a condom. [SR]

• Juvenile didn't go to his daughters funeral, and he seems pretty okay with the decision. [NB]

• I don't know if you love The Wire as much as I do, but check out these top 15 moments anyway. [EW]

• There are so many things wrong with this. So, so many things. [CNN]

• Sinbad reveals Hillary Clinton's dirty little Bosnia secret. [WP]

• Remy Ma's probably hoping her attorney has some tricks up his sleeve. [AHH]

• The Biggie movie gets a Faith Evans and a Lil Kim — the booted chick from 3LW! [BV]

• Nia Long has a young boyfriend. Or something. [Bossip]

• TMZ paid $165,000 for the tape of OJ's robbery. I don't even think the stuff he was robbing was worth that much. [TSG]

• India.Arie is Broadway-bound and set to appear in a revival of Ntozake Shange's famous For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. [EW]

• What do Jack Johnson and Eliot Spitzer have in common? [Root]

• Remy Ma is calculating and irresponsible, says the prosecution in her shooting trial. [MTV]

• HBO has ordered 13 episodes of a series based on Jill Scott's movie, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. She'll star of course in the show, of course. [DV]

• Janet Jackson's in the hospital with the flu. Buy her album to make her feel better, would you? [E!]