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JS Online: African Hut takes a break in business

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:30:46 -0700

For 15 years, Yinka and Moji Adedokun have served up peanut stew, Jollof rice and chicken, and sweet yam fries at their downtown Milwaukee restaurant, the African Hut, along with a side dish of education about their homeland.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=719950

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Rating Barack Obama Non-Scandals | The Nappy Diatribe | Blogs | Vibe.com

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:42:42 -0700

One thing that truly boggles the mind, besides the success of CBS's "Two and a Half Men" and the fact that not every stripper you come across accepts money for sexual favors, is the commonly regurgitated theme that Barack Obama had at one time received a "free ride" from the news media. Sure, he was a relatively new face in politics and people desperately wanted to know more about the Junior Senator from Illinois, but don't confuse that with the media ever being in the tank for Obama. Because to the trained eye nothing could be further from the truth. For one thing, like most star black athletes who are called "disruptive" when they publicly call out teammates, when their white counterpart is described as "showing leadership" for doing the exact same thing - I noticed that Obama was immediately a victim of the "adjective game" by many in the mainstream media. If Hillary was telling a group of supporters that she was the only candidate who could reform health care because of her years of experience on the matter, or if John McCain expressed in some interview how he was best positioned out of all the candidates to protect America based on his foreign policy credentials - both of them, more times than not, were characterized as being "confident". Obama on the other hand, exuding the same levels of confidence when talking about his ability to bring people together, or how he is the only candidate who can beat McCain come November, is often characterized as "arrogant" or "cocky". Out of the three remanding candidates, Obama is the only one I've ever seen described as "whining" when he responds to attacks, just further outlining how many people are truly threatened by an assertive black person.(See Michelle Obama). Then there was Farrakhan. You know what, they'd only ask a black guy to disassociate himself from a person who he has never had a personal relationship with - I'm fully expecting Tim Russert, during one of the presidential debates when Obama takes on McCain to ask Barack - "Do you denounce and reject the support of Malik Jenkins, who lives off of 11th and Grand, you know - the one that lives right next to the Stop-N-Go? He has said some questionable things.." In 2000 and 2004, there were more prominent religious leaders who thought that homosexuality sparked national disasters than you could shake a stick at - scores of evil malcontented bastards who though a church pew thinking that a church podium masked their verbal venom - most of those bottom feeders supported Bush wholeheartedly, and he was neither asked to denounce nor reject them by Mr Russert.

http://blogs.vibe.com/humanitycritic//2008/04/rating-barack-obama-nonscandals/

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Charlotte Observer | 04/15/2008 | Johnson cites race in Obama's surge

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:54:26 -0700

Johnson's comments to the Observer echoed those of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. She stepped down as an adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton last month after saying Obama wouldn't be where he is if he were white.

http://www.charlotte.com/171/story/581394.html

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Open Letter to Tavis Smiley - EURWeb

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:55:02 -0700

I also want to humbly give you some advice if I may. For many years now, you have served Black people faithfully with tremendous success. Black America is a better place because of your works and no one can take that away from you.

http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur42600.cfm

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Clinton misstates wife's Bosnia tale - Yahoo! News

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:49:19 -0700

WASHINGTON - Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife's tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago. In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton defended his wife's mistake in claiming that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia, accusing the media of treating her like "she'd robbed a bank" for confusing the facts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080411/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_bosnia_fact_check

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Cattle

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:35:23 -0700

This is what happens when you go to see the cherry blossoms on the first day of the Cherry Blossom Festival.

http://kenya.allmond.us/vlog/2008/04/02/cattle/

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Where No Other Democratic Leader Has Dared Go | The Trail | washingtonpost.com

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:42:45 -0700

Sen. Patrick Leahy has gone where no Democratic leader has dared go. It's time, the Vermont senator said, for Hillary Clinton to get out of the presidential race. "She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama," he told Vermont Public Radio.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/28/where_no_other_democratic_lead.html?hpid=topnews

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D.C. Church Wrinkles Clinton On Wright - Politics News Story - WRC | Washington

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:09:10 -0700

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton disparaged the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday and told a conservative newspaper publisher, and later a news conference, that she would not not have been a member of a church whose leader offered fiery opinions such as those by Wright. But it turns out that the leader of the church Clinton attended for eight years when her husband was president has leaped into the debate -- on the side of Wright.

http://www.nbc4.com/politics/15714089/detail.html

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Patients' Data on Stolen Laptop - washingtonpost.com

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:21:48 -0700

A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen in February, potentially exposing seven years' worth of clinical trial data, including names, medical diagnoses and details of the patients' heart scans. The information was not encrypted, in violation of the government's data-security policy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/AR2008032301753.html?hpid=topnews

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Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Why Obama's worldview varies from his ex-pastor's - San Jose Mercury News

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:47:00 -0700

SAN DIEGO - Sen. Barack Obama wrote and delivered a brilliant and brave speech that not only addressed the controversy involving his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but also kicked off a national conversation - not just about race (been there, done that), but about how members of different generations view race differently. As Obama reminded us from Philadelphia, how you see the world isn't just influenced by the color of your skin but by the year of your birth.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8668584?source=most_emailed

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Sniper Fire, and Holes In Clinton's Recollection - washingtonpost.com

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:46:04 -0700

Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retelling, she was sent to places that her husband, President Bill Clinton, could not go because they were "too dangerous." When her account was challenged by one of her traveling companions, the comedian Sinbad, she upped the ante and injected even more drama into the story. In a speech earlier this week, she talked about "landing under sniper fire" and running for safety with "our heads down."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102989.html?wpisrc=newsletter

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Rapper DMX hasn't heard of Obama - The Daily Voice - Black America's Daily News Source

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:24:38 -0700

This one is a little hard for us to believe. XXL magazine sat down with the rapper DMX recently, and he told the interviewer that he had never heard of Barack Obama. In the interview, which took place in January of 2008, the New York-based recording artist sounds surprised to learn there's a black man running for president.

http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/03/rapper-dmx-hasnt-heard-of-obam-000347.php

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Bit Player : Los Angeles Times : MPAA clarifies stance against Net neutrality

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:53:36 -0700

MPAA chief Dan Glickman made it official today: Hollywood will fight Net neutrality regulations being considered by Congress and the FCC. Glickman's comments, which were in his annual "state of the industry" speech at ShoWest, weren't exactly surprising, given that the MPAA had urged the FCC last year not to adopt neutrality rules that would hurt anti-piracy efforts. Today, though, the nuance was gone. Said Glickman:

http://opinion.latimes.com/bitplayer/2008/03/mpaa-clarifies.html

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NPR: Obama Campaign Skewers Clinton E-mail Statement

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:43:20 -0700

Wednesday morning, the Clinton campaign sent reporters and bloggers covering the campaign a statement that consisted of questions and comments under the title of "Keystone Test: Obama Losing Ground." The Obama campaign's communications department decided to annotate those questions and comments with some comments of their own... and boy, they held nothing back.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/03/obama_campaign_skewers_clinton.html

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Happy Birthday … Twice at Kenya Allmond: Vlog

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:22:43 -0700

Yesterday was my father’s birthday so I drove up to the Philly suburbs. It was hilarious at the Hibachi place as the guy next to my father was determined that he was going to get the gong for this birthday.

http://kenya.allmond.us/vlog/2008/03/09/happy-birthday-twice/

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Kenya Allmond: In My Own Words � Audio: Former Black Panther on Panel at Urban Film Series

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:52:19 -0800

Since I finally got PodPress up and running, I decided to share this February 11, 2007, recording from the Urban Film Series in Washington, DC. The theme of the series, We Remember, “speaks to how urban communities have been tremendously challenged. Our most critical need is to figure out how to grab hold of the direction of children and families. Perhaps a look back at the trials and tribulations of our time can help us re-focus.”

http://kenya.allmond.us/2008/03/07/audio-former-black-panther-on-panel-at-urban-film-series/

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Tow-tally Screwed

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:47:30 -0800

Last Sunday, the check engine light came on and the car started running a bit funky. I made it home. On Monday, I took the bus to the Metro station. I came home and started the car to see if the light was still on - it was, of course. Tuesday and Wednesday I caught the bus as well. On Thursday, I decided to take the car in for repairs before work. I started the car - it started but would cut off right after. I went to the bus stop but it seemed that I had already missed the bus so I called a cab to take me to the Metro station. On Friday, I came out a few minutes before 9 to catch the bus, I stood at the bus stop until 9:15 and the bus hadn’t come. “I’ve missed the bus again”, I thought as the bus is supposed to come around 9ish. I take a video and a few photos of birds on the snowy bushes and head back home. Then I hear the bus. I try to hurry back to the bus stop, waving my arms to get the drivers attention. It didn’t work although some of the passengers must have thought I was crazy - another cab to the Metro.

http://kenya.allmond.us/vlog/2008/01/21/tow-tally-screwed/

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Kenya's Blog

nobody@vox.com(Kenya) — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:35:11 -0800

http://kdimension.net/

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