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• Barack Obama is on vacation with his family in Kailua, Hawai'i this week. [Huffington Post]

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This weekend, a 70-year-old man opened fire on a rap concert in the Matam region of Senegal after he felt insulted when rappers started to sing about "cranky old men." Five people were injured. [Reuters] More »
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Researchers studied rap videos and found that they sexualized women, placed too much emphasis on their physical appearance and treated them more as decorative objects rather than "active agents." Uh, doesn't that hold true for most of pop culture and advertising? It's so annoying how rap and hip hop are always being called out for that, when there are plenty of equally (if not more) offensive other influences in the media. Anyway, after interviewing over 500 African-American women (ages 14-18), researchers found that the young women who spent more time watching rap videos were more likely to "binge drink, have sex with multiple partners, test positive for marijuana and have a negative body image." Is it just me, or does that just sound like the life of a majority of teen girls, regardless of race or music video preference? And sure, the negative body image stuff is always bad, but the rest of it actually sounds like tons of fun to me. More »
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