CNN managed to upset a lot of people Friday morning when it posted an article on its website that called the upcoming NBA All-Star Game Black Thanksgiving. CNN posted the article by longtime NBA analyst David Aldridge, who called All Star Weekend a national holiday for African Americans and quote... Read more...
Last Thursday, I wrote an article for Slate about The Anthology of Rap, officially published this week by the Yale University Press. In that piece, I pointed out the errors I'd found in reading the book's transcriptions of rap lyrics. (I also noted how tricky and difficult such transcription can b... Read more...