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Dr. Pamela D. Reed navigates the often treacherous white waters of America's ever-changing cultural landscape. Come what may, she keeps it moving-the dialogue, that is.


The Last Mile: Penn State Football Program Should be Indefinitely Suspended

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, November 11, 2011

Joe Paterno has been fired. Penn State President Graham Spanier is stepping down. The Department of Education has launched an investigation. When 84-year-old Paterno heard the news of his firing, he held court one last time. According to The Associated Press, JoePa told a group of adoring students outside his “Happy

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On The Mercy Seat: Troy Anthony Davis and American Capital Punishment

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, September 23, 2011

And the mercy seat is waiting And I think my head is burning And in a way I’m yearning To be done with all this weighing of the truth. And eye for an eye And a tooth for a tooth And anyway I told the truth And I’m not afraid to die.                              ~”The Mercy Seat”  Johnny Cash’s classic

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A Black Woman Responds to Don Lemon

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, May 18, 2011

Don Lemon is gay.  The media, both social and mainstream, have been all atwitter since the CNN anchor made this announcement via Twitter this weekend. This happened as his memoir Transparent is being released this week. Lemon and his book were the subject of a Sunday New York Times feature, in which

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Mississippi Goddam: Free the Scott Sisters

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, November 14, 2010

Nina Simone called it in 1964 with her civil rights anthem. Apparently, not much has changed since. Today, Jamie and Gladys Scott sit in a Mississippi prison, sentenced to double consecutive life sentences for a crime they have denied committing.  Neither had a previous criminal record.  And what was the alleged crime? Robbery. Was

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Act Da Fool: Strange Fruit Meet High Fashion

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, September 15, 2010

I have just finished watching, for the umpteenth time, the short film Act Da Fool, by critically acclaimed independent filmmaker Harmony Korine. With each viewing, I am more flabbergasted.   Set in a Nashville housing project, as well as a school for the blind—and “a school for kleptomaniacs”—the film is apparently the

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