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...Freedmen have tried to use the mainstream media to turn this into a racial issue. After all, it makes great sensational news and sells newspapers. But the truth is that those Freedmen who have Cherokee ancestors shall now and forever remain Cherokee citizens. It is only those who cannot prove Cherokee ancestry who lost their right to citizenship...
...have been so ignorant of a whole world of dance music. But I wasn’t all that late to the game. It was only in 2004 that the genre, born as “underground” music in the streets of San Juan, scored its first mainstream radio hit in the States: Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina.” The track was produced by Luny Tunes, two beatmakers who honed their hit-making skills while working in Harvard dining halls, before leaving for Puerto Rico in 2001. As Luny and Tunes (Francisco...
...right National Front and another 11.5 million for a gallimaufry of no-hopers, an unprecedented 37 million voters turned out on April 22 to propel Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal into a May 6 runoff between mainstream right and left. The strong showing of centrist contender François Bayrou (who captured 18.5% of the vote, compared to Sarkozy's 31% and Royal's 26%), now presents the two remaining candidates with the classic task of wooing the moderate vote without alienating their partisans. That...
...well-worn jazz riff: superb player, been around forever but known mostly to musicians and insiders. Andrew Hill almost fit the bill. Over his 50-year career, he was lauded as a groundbreaking pianist and composer. And yet he was often overlooked by mainstream audiences, which focused on contemporaries like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins. But Hill refused to fade. His 2006 album, Time Lines, earned him album-of-the-year honors from Down Beat magazine. Hill, who performed just three weeks before his death...
...staggering. Wikipedia's user-created entries have surpassed the 5 million mark. In 2006 YouTube announced that it had served over 100 million video clips per day. With such vast libraries of lip-synched videos and episodes of LonelyGirl15, the numbers seem to indicate that this phenomenon has gone mainstream...