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David Banner lives in a world where the marks of oppression are still clear as day and hip-hop never scaled the heights of marketability. It’d be a mistake to slot his music alongside more pedestrian bids for mass appeal. Last year’s Mississippi: The Album would have sounded curiously wrong to heads raised on boom-bap, full of blues chords and unearthly bass tones grafted to low-riding drums so nuanced they bordered on expressionistic. But with Outkast as crunk music’s ambassadors, few probably listened anyway. Suitably, Banner makes jams above...
...familiar ways. Says four-term Georgia state senator Vincent Fort: "After Florida and four years of an extreme right-wing agenda, after seeing George W. Bush lay a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. and then turn around and go back to Washington and appoint a [Mississippi judge] Charles Pickering [Sr.] to the federal bench--I think the African-American voter will be energized." The anger remains strong, and no one has yet fully tapped into it. At the same time, African-American voters know that anger alone is not going to defeat George Bush...
Denouncing President Bush’s recent decision to bypass Congress and seat a Federal judge from Mississippi on the Fifth Circuit’s Court of Appeals, Orfield called for judicial appointees who “understand race.” He also criticized both Democrats and Republicans for their inability to address segregation issues...
...Even on the page, the siren-sucker relationship is a lot livelier than in Truffaut?s frozen ?Mermaid.? Which, by the way, never gets to Mississippi, or even to North America. The first setting is Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean; then Louis follows Julie to Marseille, and they finish in the snow of Switzerland. The movie?s emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites. For a man obsessed, Belmondo plays it low-voltage; Deneuve is only the most gorgeous paperweight. The film has no heat, only humidity, and that in the early going...
...heard about the age biases the he would face as a sophomore going up against three seniors—Michigan running back Chris Perry, Mississippi quarterback Eli Manning and White. He had heard that a pure wide-receiver—one that doesn’t return punts or kickoffs as well—is at a severe disadvantage in the Heisman balloting due to his reliance on the performance of his squad’s quarterback. He had heard that being on a four-loss team can kill any player’s chances regardless of his ability...