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Mychal Denzel Smith

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Mychal Denzel Smith is a contributing writer to Salon, and social commentator. He also blogs at TheNation.com. Follow him on Twitter @mychalsmith.

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Best of Salon: Why we need Tupac now more than ever

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Charles Barkley, Chris Rock, Bill Cosby (Reuters/Dominick Reuter/AP/Chris Pizzello/Todd Williamson/Photo montage by Salon)

Chris Rock’s poisonous legacy: How to get rich and exalted chastising “bad blacks”

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Michael Jordan, LeBron James (AP/Michael Conroy/Reuters/Andrew Innerarity/Photo montage by Salon)

Black male cool’s fatal limits: Jordan, LeBron and Michael Brown’s expendability

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Tupac Shakur spits in the direction of reporters as he leaves state Supreme Court in New York, July 5, 1994. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

White supremacy meets “black boy rage”: Why Tupac’s needed more today than ever

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Measure of my manhood

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