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            <title><![CDATA[Ralph Ellison's Endless Blues]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why did the acclaimed author of the classic Invisible Man never publish another book? Stanley Crouch on the tortured brilliance of Ellison's unfinished work and how America failed to appreciate him. 
Ralph Ellison was given the National Book Award in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Trouble with Soul Train]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new VH-1 documentary celebrates the landmark television show, but as Stanley Crouch writes, the real power of looking back at Soul Train is seeing what black culture has lost. 
Soul Train ran for 35 seasons and was the first syndicated show...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shut Up, Scarlett!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On the 70th anniversary of Gone With the Wind, Stanley Crouch revisits the controversial film-and recalls the time his grandmother shouted down Vivien Leigh in the theater.
As those interested in our popular culture should know, this is the 70th...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:24:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Amazing Cate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  As the latest production of A Streetcar Named Desire ends its celebrated two-week run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Stanley Crouch tells us why Cate Blanchett's performance has already passed into theater legend.
The production of A Streetcar...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Pictorial Ode to Michelle]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  A new book on Michelle Obama's iconic beauty transforms the genre. PLUS, view our gallery of the first lady.
In our period of manic and hollow decadence loudly and consistently dehumanizing a public convinced that flimsy trends constitute the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:31:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Want a Bigger Butt]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A former Miss Argentina died while having plastic surgery to sculpt her buttocks. Stanley Crouch on why white women are suddenly seeking big behinds.
If one is lucky while looking down at the insubstantial, minor men and women made into magnets of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thelonious Monk Is Back]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ A smart new documentary from HBO, The Jazz Baroness, captures the many sides of the jazz pianist. 
There is a beneficent heat wave of attention returning to the subject of Thelonious Monk. It helps us through the blizzard of fluff perpetually focused...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Desperately Seeking a GOP Hero]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A true maverick who's not afraid to stake their career on pulling the Republicans back from the fringe could single-handedly set the party back on track.
At one point during the presidential campaign, John McCain seemed to nominate himself for a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Carter's Charge Is a Distraction]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Obama defenders who see racism behind the attacks may be well-intentioned. But Obama has bigger fish to fry-and the country has come further than you think.
The most serious issue is power and the execution of policy, not the color of the man sitting...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Insane Is the Beer Summit?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A white cop gets invited to the White House for arresting a black man. The ever-disciplined Obama flubs a line. And Skip Gates-he's being attacked from all sides. Stanley Crouch tries to make sense of the White House silly season.
Plus: Tina Brown,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Steps In It]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Henry Louis Gates' arrest had nothing to do with America's racist past. But why did Barack Obama go off half-cocked about it?
Read other takes on Gates' arrest from Daily Beast writers.
Once we get to the point that everyone from Maureen Dowd to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Big Neverland in the Sky]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Today's memorial service marked Michael Jackson's final spectacle-as more of a product than a person.
Overstatement is the coin of the commercial realm and plenty has been spread around since the death of Michael Jackson. A perfect example was the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Public Enemies Kills Its Gangsters]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In his new film, Michael Mann manages to take 1930s gangster culture-rendered so vividly and compellingly by author Bryan Burrough-and render it flat as a pancake.&nbsp; 
"He ain't no gangster. He's a real old-time desperado. Gangsters is foreigners;...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:58:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Iranian Thugs Are Like Bull Connor]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Watching the brutal images from Iran reminded Stanley Crouch of America's own bloody struggle for civil rights.
Perhaps the only profound thing said by Stokely Carmichael during the Black Power era was that power is the ability to define. That is...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:51:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A College, a Gun-and a Big Injustice]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ After a Morehouse College student shot a classmate three times, he was sentenced to... graduation. Inside an outrageous case that shows that the old-boys network is color-blind. 
This story is about a violent incident and a legal response so...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:04:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[VIDEO BUZZ BOARD
Author and critic Stanley Crouch raves about his latest obsession, Living With Jazz by Dan Morgenstern. Click here to watch.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:11:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Online Video]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Some noise is being made about Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff. It takes a rough look at the relationship between the consumption, packaging disposal of trash, all of which are usually hazardous to the environment. Using animation, it has become...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 May 2009 07:13:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Magazine Article]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Focused on Eros, the winter 2009 issue of Lapham's Quarterly offers especially brilliant pages that are bromides for our protracted adolescence regarding things erotic. We see that there is much more to intimate activities than pleasurable collisions...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I recommend Dan Morgenstern's Living With Jazz, which is one of the very finest collections musical literature produced by any writer. Morgenstern is a whiz kid panting over the wonder of darkies. He actually likes jazz musicians as human beings and...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:01:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Film]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Woefully short on political detail and the meaning of the wars fought with the House of Bush, HBO's House of Saddam is still uniquely worthy. Some feasible light is given an inscrutable man made of nothing but grotesque darkness, like Stalin and...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:45:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Those who wonder exactly why Katrina inspired so much feeling, should humble themselves by reading Tom Piazza's Why New Orleans Matters. Except for maybe the last few pages, which are overcome by the city's politics and specific recommendations to...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:18:50 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Music]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Since about 1972, Sonny Rollins has seemed intent on disproving the barely arguable fact that he is the finest saxophone improvisor since Charlie Parker. He has often played wonderfully in public but released mediocre to terrible recordings. Only those...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:09:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Film]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When he died at 75 in 1974, Duke Ellington had led a big band-a jazz orchestra-for nearly fifty years. He was fully or partially responsible for between one and three thousand compositions that were distinguished at their best by his bringing the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:03:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[We have become accustomed to the technology that renews the color and the sound of our classic films, but we are now becoming equally impressed by techniques that either renew or extend classic recordings far beyond what listeners heard when they were...]]></description>
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