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Shooting guard Michael Redd, who plays for the Milwaukee Bucks, admitted LeBron's words didn't thrill all this teammates. "We wanted to take the low road, but LeBron's LeBron," Redd says. "He's going to say what we feels in his heart." But the Americans quickly got over the shock. "Look, man, LeBron is one of our leaders," says forward Carlos Boozer. "Every guy on this team backs him. He went out on a limb way back when and said, 'look, we can't be beat.'. And we weren't. So you might want to start asking...
...Wayne has a smoke-scarred rasp that makes him sound like Redd Foxx covering Bob Dylan. It's hardly the voice you'd expect from a 25-year-old rap star, but then, it's been a busy 25 years...
Wayne claims his rhymes are stream of consciousness, but even if they aren't, they sound as though they're hitting the air for the first time, unfolding with an electricity that's--forbid the sacrilege--Dylanesque. Redd Foxx would probably...
...young people around the world,” Sarina Pasricha said, referencing her work with her sister. Past Harvard women who received the award include Priscilla Bowden Potter ’61, who was the first woman accepted to The Crimson’s editorial staff, and Nancy A. Redd ’03, recognized in part for winning $250,000 on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” taking in the largest prize of any African American on a game show. —Staff writer Rachel Banks can be reached at banks@fas.harvard.edu...
...Black puritans have been trying to ban the word since the 1920s when the white hipster Carl Van Vechten published the book Nigger Heaven. They continued their war through attacks on Redd Foxx, blaxploitation and Donald Goines. But all their efforts have been rewarded with gangsta rap, an art form that has made nigger arguably the most well-known racial or ethnic slur on the planet...