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...performers showcased their abilities in front of a near sell-out crowd that topped...
What the Abdul-Rauf affair has taught us is that the national anthem is just one of the details, part of a carefully-designed package the NBA has been selling to sell-out crowds around the nation. Just like the mandatory post-game interviews and the locker room press access, standing at attention during the anthem is a facet of the public image Stern and his colleagues have carved out for the "Professional Basketball Player...
Dyson is not afraid to go against the grain. He defends Martin Luther King against revisionists who would portray him as a "sell-out" compared with the more militant--and currently more fashionable--Malcolm X. Dyson argues that those who (rightly) lionize Malcolm should re-examine the radical final stage of King's life, in which he sought to unify "poor blacks, whites, Latinos and native Americans in a multiracial coalition ... to challenge the unfair distribution of wealth." Dyson also offers a defense of singer Mariah Carey against critics who say her music is not "authentically" black. He writes: "What...
...black and "don't live in the Quad and you are conservative," says Foster, a Lowell House resident, "then you must be a sell...
Playing to a near sell-out crowd at Sanders Theater last night, comedian Paula Poundstone treated Harvard to the proverbial "dose of reality...