- Will Norbit kill Murphy’s Oscar chances? - “For Eddie to follow what he did with ‘Dreamgirls’ with this just doesn’t make sense,” said Robert M. Entman, author of The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. “There’s no excuse for him to lend his prestige to something like this…. There has to be a point where African American stars of his stature have to take some responsibility for their actions and just say no.”
- Amaechi becomes first NBA player to come out of the closet - “With teammates you have to be trustworthy, and if you’re gay and you’re not admitting that you are, then you are not trustworthy,” (LeBron) James said. “So that’s like the No. 1 thing as teammates — we all trust each other. You’ve heard of the in-room, locker room code. What happens in the locker room stays in there. It’s a trust factor, honestly. A big trust factor.” OT: Another gay athlete comes out? Not impresssed says LZ Granderson: “An athlete in 2007 who stays in the closet during his playing days does more to support homophobia in sports than coming out after retirement does to combat it.”
- Harvard to offer free tuition to low- and middle-income students - students from families earning less than $60,000 a year are eligible for the program. Said Dr. Lawrence Summers, “When only 10 percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in the lower half of the income distribution, we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the income distribution.”
- Listen to a Movie - low-fi streaming audio of your favorite (?) films.
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