Flavor Flav has opened a Las Vegas restaurant called Flavor Flav’s House of Flavor. Obviously. The Associated Press reports that the Public Enemy member and VH1 reality star opened the fried chicken and soul food place Thursday, the eve of his 53rd birthday. Read full article > >

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Ablack man is guided to a table at a pub in Harvard Square. He is surrounded by white people. He sees fried chicken on the lunch menu. Does he dare order it? Touré shrugs. “I’ll have the fried chicken,” he tells the waiter. Hold the stereotypes. “I don’t care if anybody cares,” the single-named author, hip-hop journalist, cultural critic and provocateur says. “It’s a taste issue, and fried chicken is just good. In my life, I have rejected the white gaze. I’m freed from it, so I’m not really concerned with what people may or may not think about what I do.” Read full article > >

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‘Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?’ The provocateur Touré has a few ideas.

Ablack man is guided to a table at a pub in Harvard Square. He is surrounded by white people. He sees fried chicken on the lunch menu. Does he dare order it? Touré shrugs. “I’ll have the fried chicken,” he tells the waiter. Hold the stereotypes. “I don’t care if anybody cares,” the single-named author, hip-hop journalist, cultural critic and provocateur says. “It’s a taste issue, and fried chicken is just good. In my life, I have rejected the white gaze. I’m freed from it, so I’m not really concerned with what people may or may not think about what I do.” Read full article > >

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‘Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?’ The provocateur Touré has a few ideas.

If you’re living in Florida, starting on Oct. 1, you may not need to come up with any excuses not to have sex with someone. Southern Fried Scientist, a blog by a graduate student, claims that the Florida legislature’s new bestiality law has one major…

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