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Yes, the MLK Estate Did Approve That Trash Dodge Super Bowl Ad
Updated Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, at 1:40 p.m. EST: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., which owns Ram, has made it all too clear that Martin Luther King Jr.’s estate was well aware of that Super Bowl ad and was “a very important part of the creative process every step of the way.” The statement was quoted…
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Eagles Fans Tear Down Property and Act a Fool After Super Bowl Win, but Police Show Restraint. Amazing
Philly, this is why you don’t get nice things. The city celebrated its first Super Bowl victory (I mean, congratulations) and gifted us with the image of forlorn New England Patriot Tom Brady sitting on the football field, fresh off of fumbling the damn ball (and we are ever grateful). Both of these things—but especially…
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The Nerve: In This Will Be My Undoing, Debut Author Morgan Jerkins Isn’t Afraid to Go There
If you haven’t heard Morgan Jerkins’ name yet or seen her work, chances are you will soon. Her debut collection of personal essays, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, won over Roxane Gay, who lauds Jerkins as a “deft cartographer of black girlhood and…
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‘See How It Feels to Be a Slave?’: NYC Teacher Steps on Student’s Back to Simulate Horrors of Slavery
For the students at Middle School 118 in New York City’s Bronx borough, it was an immersive lesson gone way too far. Teacher Patricia Cummings is catching heat from students and parents after a social studies lesson she delivered about the Middle Passage—one that involved her stepping on her students’ backs. The New York Daily…
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A Clean Slate: San Francisco to Toss Out Thousands of Marijuana Convictions
In an unprecedented move, the city of San Francisco will throw out thousands of marijuana convictions going back decades. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday that city prosecutors will retroactively apply California’s marijuana-legalization laws to past criminal cases dating all the way back to 1975. With no…
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Report Finds Some HBCUs Graduating Less Than 1 Out of 5 Freshmen Within 6 Years
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, after analyzing federal data tracking graduation and retention rates for HBCUs, came across an alarming finding. At 20 HBCUs, six-year graduation rates were at 20 percent or lower in 2015. To frame it another way, only 1 in 5 enrolled freshmen ended up graduating within six years. For perspective, the 2015 national…
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Air Force Sergeant Under Investigation After Ranting About Disrespectful ‘Black Females’
An Air Force sergeant learned the hard way that singling out black women and ranting about how you want to fight them while literally in uniform is not the way to keep a job. Tech. Sgt. Geraldine Lovely is under investigation for a video she posted this weekend in which she admonished lower-ranking “black females”…
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Jury Awards Mom $57,000,000 After Daughter Tests Positive for High Levels of Lead; Housing Authority Found Responsible: Report
Eight years after learning that her daughter had tested positive for dangerous levels of lead—the result of living for years in lead-tainted public housing—Tiesha Jones has finally received some measure of justice. On Friday, a Bronx, N.Y., jury awarded Jones a $57 million verdict against the New York City Housing Authority for failing to do…
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Black Student Enrollment Lagging in Many of the South’s Premier College Campuses: Report
A new report reveals major disparities between the rate of black high school graduates and the rate of black students enrolled at flagship state institutions. Among the findings: Nine of the 10 states with the biggest gaps were found in the South. The Hechinger Report released an interactive look Monday at how many black and…
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Please Stop Inviting Joy Villa to Things
In the spirit of guarding your energy in 2018, may I offer one quick public service announcement: Stop inviting Joy Villa to things. Joy who-what-now? Girl, I don’t know. She “sings,” apparently. But what she’s really known for is burrowing up from the sunken place and trolling red carpets. What she do this time? On…
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