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The Root’s #MCM: Sit Your Husband Down in Front of a Boris Kodjoe Interview
Boris Kodjoe opened the door and stuck his head into Nicole Ari Parker’s trailer while they were both on the set of Soul Food back in the day, and said, “You know we’re going to get married and have kids right?” and then left. Parker remembered how she grinned, and thought to herself: “Yeah, he’s right.” She confessed during an interview with Essence…
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Black Twitter Kidnaps the #WhiteGirlsDoItBetter Hashtag and Takes It for a Ride
The de facto conglomerate known as “black Twitter” has demonstrated time and time again that it is funny, relentless and bombastic on issues relating to race and culture and can unleash the fury of God (or the wit of Richard Pryor) on those who find themselves lurking around those kinds of topics without a darn…
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FBI: We Dropped the Ball on Dylann Roof’s Background Check; He Should Not Have Been Able to Purchase a Gun
The FBI admitted Friday that its failure to follow through on Dylann Roof’s background check enabled him to reportedly purchase the gun that he allegedly used to fatally shoot nine people at a historically black church in South Carolina in June. According to the New York Times, Roof—the self-confessed gunman in the attack at the…
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The Black Gay Prancing Elites Dance Troupe Gets Green Light for 2nd Season on Oxygen
Get ready to see more sparkly leotards and the fiercest j-setting dance moves, because Oxygen just green-lit a second season of The Prancing Elites Project, according to Variety. The docuseries explores the world of competitive dancing through the lives of an all-male dance troupe based in Mobile, Ala. All five members are African American, and…
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South Sudanese Model Rips ‘Racist’ Fashion Industry
Nykhor Paul—a South Sudanese model who has graced the campaigns of Calvin Klein, Balenciaga, Diane von Furstenburg and the like—took to Instagram Monday to give the fashion industry a piece of her mind about the “ratchet” ways in which dark-brown models are treated in the industry. Paul made it very clear to whom she was directing her…
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Watch: The Philanthropist Who Built Over 5,000 Schools for Black Students in the Jim Crow South
In the trailer for the documentary Rosenwald, civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) describes the type of school he went to as a child. “It was a little school a short distance from my home—walking distance. Beautiful little building. It was a Rosenwald school. It was the only school we had,” Lewis said.…
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Donald Trump Says He’ll ‘Win the Latino Vote’
Not only did Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump say that he had “nothing to apologize for” in characterizing Mexican immigrants as rapists who are bringing their crime to the U.S., but the real estate tycoon predicts that his jobs program will lure Hispanics back to his corner come Election Day. “I’ll win the Latino vote…
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Fla. Woman Is Arrested After Reportedly Telling Teens: ‘I Hang Your Family From My Tree’
Lisa Marie Elberson, 29, of Lake County, Fla., spent the last day of her Fourth of July weekend in a county jail, the the Orlando Sentinel reports, after allegedly chasing a group of teens down a block wielding a baseball bat. She also allegedly yelled a racial slur at them. Elberson was apparently finishing her…
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Texas Makes Changes to History Textbooks: No Mention of KKK or Jim Crow, and the Civil War Was Fought Over States’ Rights, Not Slavery
A change is coming to public school education in Texas, a change that was voted for in 2010 and will take effect when students go back to school come fall. It’s happening in history class—in the new social studies textbooks that students will be using to learn U.S. history. New state academic guidelines changed some…
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Black NC Woman Denied Library Card in 1942 Returns at Age 92 to Get One
Pearl Thompson was a student at Shaw University in 1942 when she walked over to a public library in Raleigh, N.C., to check out a book she was assigned to read for class. But instead of issuing a library card to Thompson and allowing her to check out the book, the library staff at the…
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