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Jay Z’s Barneys Collection Unveiled: Clothing for the 1 Percent
Sometimes we collectively create the man, only to watch him become the thing he once rallied against. Hip-hop is funny that way. Artists use the story of their lives as the vehicle to drive a wedge between the man they have become and the person they once were. In street terms: Once the money gets…
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Football Team Forfeits Game After Player's Home Is Spray-Painted With Graffiti
A Massachusetts high school football team is forfeiting the remainder of its games after a player’s house was sprayed-painted with racist graffiti, the Huffington Post reports. Lunenburg High School has canceled its remaining two games after the house of Isaac Phillips, 13 (whose mother is white and father is black) was scrawled with the message:…
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Teen Playing ‘Knockout Game’ Gets Shot by Victim
A man standing on a corner in Michigan waiting for his 6-year-old daughter to be dropped off from school wasn’t too worried about the van he saw circle him twice. “I saw the van circle twice, and the second time three kids came out. I didn’t suspect anything. I hadn’t any enemies, or any reason…
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Scandal Creator Shonda Rhimes to Pen Memoir
As if owning prime time television weren’t enough, Shonda Rhimes is looking to take over the literary genre. That’s right, the genius behind Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal has signed on with publishing powerhouse Simon & Schuster to write a memoir in 2015, Variety reports. “Simon and Schuster is crazy for giving me a book deal as I am clearly in…
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Students Charged With Hate Crimes Against African-American Roommate
“Three-fifths” and “Fraction” are the names three white roommates at San Jose State University gave their black freshman roommate to remind him that there was a time when blacks were considered a fraction of a person. They also outfitted the room with a Confederate flag and wrote the n-word on a dry erase board. Then…
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Sasha Obama Causes Unicorn-Sweater Hysteria
When Sasha Obama went to the Comcast Center to watch her Uncle Craig’s Oregon State Beavers destroy the Maryland Terps last Sunday, I doubt she thought her black sweater with the unicorn on the front was making a fashion statement. Turns out, her sweater was the real winner that night—at least for ASOS. The online…
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James McBride Wins National Book Award; Maya Angelou Honored
Sometimes it’s the pain of loss that pushes the creative. James McBride won the National Book Award in fiction, and upon accepting his award he spoke about his recent tragedies. He told the audience of 700 guests at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City that he wrote The Good Lord Bird—his novel about a…
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DNA Analysis Links FSU Quarterback to Accuser
In a story that many believe is being tried in the court of public opinion, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has confirmed that DNA provided by Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston matches the sample taken from the underwear of the woman who has accused him of sexual battery, ESPN.com reports. Winston’s attorney, Tim Jansen,…
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Teen Spent 3 Years at Rikers Without Being Convicted of Crime
In May of 2010, Kalief Browder, a 16-year-old sophomore in high school, was walking home in his Bronx, N.Y., neighborhood after a party. Someone told the police that Browder robbed him weeks ago. Cuffs were applied, and Browder was slammed behind one of the toughest prisons on the planet. The 16-year-old would stay there for…
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Death Row Inmate Denied Appeal Despite Racial Bias
In 1997, Duane Buck was convicted of capitol murder for killing his ex-girlfriend and a man in her Houston apartment. During the punishment phase of Buck’s trial, a psychologist testified that black people were more likely to commit violence. The jury then sentenced Buck to death, the Associated Press reports. In 2000, three years after Buck’s…
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