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Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

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Beef is when anchors ain't safe up in the streets

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Aug 28 2008, 9:24 AM ET Comment

I knew I didn't imagine this the other night. Eric Alterman chronicles the infighting at MSNBC--with video.

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