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Obama to CBC: ‘Personal Insult’ to Me if Black Voters Don’t Support Clinton
Fiyah. Lit. Sixteen bars. There are all sorts of African-American colloquialisms and aphorisms that will be used to describe President Barack Obama’s last speech as president to the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday night. While all of those descriptions are true enough, there was something even more daring and more compelling about the president’s speech that…
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Can You Sue Your College? President Obama Says Yes You Can
When I was in college at the University of Virginia, every year they had an event called Spring Fling. Spring Fling (as opposed to the much colder, gloomier Fall Fling) was the visitation weekend for all African-American students who’d been accepted to UVA, and it was a huge party. There were big concerts and fashion…
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Seattle Seahawks #AllLivesMatter Protest Is an Act of Political Cowardice
Are you ready for some football? Are you ready for some flag-waving, solemn, 15th-anniversary-of-Sept. 11 remembrances? Are you ready for some Colin Kaepernick-inspired Black Lives Matter demonstrations by NFL players? If not, too bad, because you’re going to get all of those things when you tune in for any team’s NFL kickoff today, with the…
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As the Race Tightens, Hillary Clinton Knows #BlackVotesMatter
The week after Labor Day is the official beginning of the campaign to be president of the United States of America. Commercials and news coverage will fool you into thinking that the campaign has been going on for the last two years, but effectively, most Americans don’t tune in until the last burger has been…
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Dragon Con: Where Black Nerds Come Out to Play
Most people spend their Labor Day weekend cooking, shopping or just getting the heck out of town. Other people spend Labor Day weekend cooking up plans for world domination, shopping for rare-action-figure collectibles and finding ways to fly to another galaxy. At least that’s the main explanation for most black folks who attended Dragon Con…
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Donald Trump Meets With Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and the Joke Is on All of Us
You could not come up with a more desperate pair of political leaders than GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Trump has dug himself into a huge hole in the polls, and his pivot to African Americans has all the skill and grace of the new guy at the YMCA.…
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Colin Kaepernick Shows That #BlackLivesMatter Even When His Career May Not
San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick chose last Friday to remind America that black lives matter. It’s a laudable goal, and one for which he should be commended. The role of the black athlete in addressing pressing social issues has moved from the “risk it all” activism of the 1960s to the “Republicans buy…
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Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand White People
After a year and a half of dog-whistling so loud that even Blue Dog Democrats held their ears, Republican nominee Donald Trump has switched gears. First he was going to “Make America great”; then he was going to “Make America safe”; and now he’s pitching “What have you got to lose?” to African-American and Latino…
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No, Zendaya in Spider-Man: Homecoming Is Not the Progress We’re Looking For
Zendaya Coleman is everything that anybody black, brown or biracial could look for in an admirable tween pop star. She’s talented; her Disney Channel show, K.C. Undercover, is a campy mashup of The Proud Family and The Famous Jett Jackson; and most importantly, Zendaya is unmistakably, irrevocably and proudly black as hell—and don’t you dare…
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Finding Carly: Whatever Happened to the Breakout Stars, Heroes and Flops of the 2016 Primary Season?
The political campaign season has a funny way of giving everyone long-term memory loss. Your friends at work can remember the latest Hillary Clinton gaffe or Donald Trump stumble that happened 48 hours (or, in Trump’s case, five minutes) ago because it circulates on Twitter and Facebook. But when it comes to some event that…
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