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Joe Newby   On his last day of teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Professor Noel Ignatiev reportedly received a standing ovation when he told his class that white males are a cancer and they should kill themselves, Jim Hoft reported at the Gateway Pundit Monday, citing an interview posted at the Diversity Report . “If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world! They only murder, exploit and oppress non-whites! At least a white woman can have sex with a black man and make a brown baby but what can a white male do? He’s good for nothing. Slavery, genocides against aboriginal peoples and massive land confiscation, the inquisition, the holocaust, white males are all to blame! You maintain your white male privilege only by oppressing, discriminating against and enslaving others," he said, according to Ivan Fe...

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The legislation was passed by the General Assembly last spring. A study commissioned two years ago by the New England Foundation for the Arts found that, in aggregate, every dollar spent by a Rhode Island nonprofit arts and cultural organization resulted in $2.10 in sales for businesses in Rhode Island. Moreover, the study found, every job provided by a Rhode Island nonprofit arts and cultural organization became 1.5 jobs for workers across the state. For years I have introduced legislation in the General Assembly to establish a Wickford Art District where, as in other communities where such districts have been created, artists and galleries would be exempt from the state sales tax on goods and works produced and sold in that designated area. When my legislation did not pass, I began to press the idea of establishing a statewide arts district. The idea soon took root and began to pick up momentum. Under the strong leadership of Senate President M. Te...

The inbox at Three Stripes Media was flooded when viewers across the globe caught a glimpse of the new Fresh Step Cat Litter commercial that shows two cats scratching on two turntables. Was this just in time for Hip-Hop History month? Or a coincidence? Either way, Fresh Step has been given a nod of approval by the Universal Zulu Nation's Minister Of Information, Quadeer "M.C. Spice" Shakur for their efforts in promoting the awareness of the elements of Hip-Hop Culture to their audience and consumers: "I think it's honorable that Fresh Step made such a creative and brilliant decision to showcase one of the five physical elements of Hip-Hop Culture [deejaying], in their television campaign featuring the two cats. It was entertaining, witty, and ingenious. Most importantly, it shows Hip-Hop Culture's strong worldwide influence and mass appeal  since it's birth in 1974". Hip-Hop Culture has grown to be a worldwide phenomenon since it's birt...

The Internet and TV shows were buzzing about TLC being dropped from their recording contract with Epic Records over... you guessed it... Pebbles. L.A. Reid, of Epic Records, stopped the rumors with this Tweet on his Twitter page: Pebbles has been firing shots at TLC after their movie Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Movie debuted on VH1 last month. Pebbles claims the movie made her look like a greedy manager who cheated them out of millions. She not only threatened to sue T-Boz and Chilli, but also VH1 if they don’t clear her name. So far no one has been sued.

By Alan Duke , CNN Wayne Mills had been working on his seventh album, "Long Hard Road," and touring small Southern venues.    (CNN) -- Singer Wayne Mills, whose "outlaw country" songs center on honky-tonk life, died in a Nashville bar shooting Saturday, police said. Chris Ferrell, owner of Nashville's Pit and Barrel bar, told police he shot Mills, 44, in self-defense, according to a Nashville police statement. "Wayne Mills by definition is one that is a stiff-necked, country troubadour with an affinity for honky-tonks and possessing a style of rustic simplicity," his official website said. He's an "average country boy steeped in the Southern vernacular of God, guns and football," his official biography reads.   Investigators say Mills and Ferrell, 44, were in the closed bar with "a few friends and acquaintances" when the two men -- who were friends -- "began to argue and the others ...

By Jethro Mullen and Chelsea J. Carter , CNN An aerial photo of Uotsuri Island, one of the disputed Senkaku Islands, also known as the Diaoyu Islands, on September 7, 2013.   Hong Kong (CNN) -- China has told the United States to butt out of a territorial dispute with Japan in the East China Sea after Washington warned that a military claim by Beijing to airspace in the region raises the risk of "misunderstanding and miscalculations." The creation of an "Air Defense Identification Zone" by China comes amid increasing tensions between Beijing and Tokyo over competing claims to disputed islands in the sea, which are believed to be situated near large reserves of natural resources. China's announcement Saturday of the zone, which it described as an early-warning system for self-defense, drew a swift response from the United States, Japan's closest military ally.   Washington warned that the latest Chinese move creates ...