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10 Things Worse Than Slavery, According To Ben Carson
While on Meet the Press last weekend, unintentionally ironic neurosurgeon Ben Carson compared abortion to slavery, stating “During slavery, a lot of the slave owners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave. Anything that they chose to do. And what if the abolitionists had said, ‘I don’t believe…
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The Assault At Spring Valley High Would Not Have Happened If The Girl Was White
I do not know what happened in that classroom at Spring Valley High School before Deputy Ben Fields violently assaulted a teen girl who was, apparently, “resisting arrest.” I’m quite sure, however, that information will find its way into the public sphere very soon. We will also know more about Deputy Fields — his work history, his…
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10 More Things That Are Worse Than Slavery, According to Ben Carson
While on Meet the Press Sunday, unintentionally ironic former neurosurgeon Ben Carson compared abortion to slavery, stating, “During slavery, a lot of the slave owners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave. Anything that they chose to do. And what if the abolitionists had said, ‘I don’t believe…
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How Beyoncé Makes Us Crazy
Who is Beyoncé? Beyoncé is an introverted Houstonian known best for being allergic to seats—like, literally every seat she’s ever seen makes her sneeze—and for inventing “surfborting.” Surfborting? Yes. Surfborting. She’s the world’s first—and probably the world’s only—professional surfborter. Is she known for anything else? Well, for approximately 171 million Americans and 1.4 billion people…
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Sandra Bullock Is the Greatest White Savior Ever
Last weekend, I took my dad to see Sicario—Denis Villeneuve’s gripping and graphic (very, very, very graphic) depiction of the drug war. Now, while Sicario has done well at the box office, it wasn’t exactly a blockbuster—nor was it intended to be—so with that in mind, plus the fact that we went to a 10…
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The Lie Everyone Tells You About Having a Pregnant Wife
“If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie.” —Slim Charles One of the best things about The Wire is that, even almost a decade after the last episode aired, you can still incorporate lines from the show to describe everyday situations. Order cream of chicken with wild rice at Panera Bread, and it comes…
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A Hater’s Guide to Hating Drake and Hating the ‘Hotline Bling’ Video
Who is Drake? Drake is a Jewish-Canadian Instagram model who’s known for dating Serena Williams and other women so thick that everyone else in the room is so uncomfortable. He also records and releases songs about Toronto and Spanx, apparently. One question in and you’re hating already! Why couldn’t you just say, “Drake is a…
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Anthony Mackie: The Unlikeliest Hotep
I should know better. I know that movies and television shows are movies and television shows and contain actors who are acting and not being themselves. Again, I know this. I know Joe Morton isn’t really the sociopathic head of a shadowy government agency. I know Kimberly Elise has an emotion other than “depressingly distraught.” And I know that Michael Beach is…
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A List of People Not Responsible for Damaging the Legacy of Bill Cosby and The Cosby Show
Yesterday Ebony magazine debuted the cover of its November issue. It features a picture of the Huxtables from The Cosby Show behind shattered glass, with the glass’s most prominent crack directly over Bill Cosby’s face. Naturally, this explosive cover sparked another round of conversation about “the Cosby legacy”—something The Root’s Senior Writer Kirsten West Savali examined in a…
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I Just Saw The November Cover Of EBONY Magazine, And…Well…Holy Shit
It was October of 2011. I was in New York City do to a shoot for a story in Essence Magazine. While walking to Essence, I happened to randomly bump into Jamilah Lemieux in the street. Which, considering that New York City has 21 billion people and I happened to literally walk right into one of…
