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Teacher Allegedly Tells Black Student to Say ‘Yes, Sir, Master’
When Jabre White’s teacher told the class to go downstairs to take their economics final, Jabre says he politely responded with a “Yes, sir.” That was when the Roosevelt High School senior from Des Moines, Iowa, was met with, “You meant to say, ‘Yes, sir, master,’ ” from the teacher, Shawn McCurtain, the Des Moines…
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White Teacher Reinstated After Blackface Lesson
A Michigan middle school teacher’s suspension for teaching his eighth-grade class about blackface has ended after almost two weeks. Alan Barron returned to his job at Monroe Middle School on Monday, CBS Detroit reports. Barron, 59, was showing his class a video about how white entertainers used to put on blackface to imitate black people.…
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Angela Bassett to Direct Movie About Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown
Whitney Houston’s story—more specifically, her troubled relationship with singer-songwriter Bobby Brown—is due to be chronicled in a Lifetime movie scheduled for release in 2015. Award-winning actress Angela Bassett will make her directing debut with Whitney Houston, telling the story of the couple from “the time they first met at the very height of their celebrity,…
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Meet the Black Officer Who Went Undercover as a KKK Member
Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. Retired police Sgt. Ron Stallworth’s story—about how he, a black undercover Colorado cop, infiltrated one of the nation’s most notorious hate groups in 1978—is one such truth. Stallworth, 61, recently released the book Black Klansman, detailing his amazing story during his early years of service. “I was sitting…
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NBA’s Charles Barkley Earns Ire of San Antonio Women
Charles Barkley wasn’t exactly made to feel completely welcome at the opening game of the Western Conference Finals in San Antonio on Monday, when a group of women, apparently led by the girlfriend of the Spurs’ Tim Duncan, wagged their collective fingers at him. The TNT analyst and former NBA player has made some pretty…
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Ras Baraka Elected Mayor of Newark
On Tuesday night, Newark, N.J., elected its new mayor, Municipal Council member Ras Baraka—and chose a new direction for itself, the New York Times reports. Baraka, the son of activist and poet Amiri Baraka, won approximately 54 percent of the vote, with 96 percent of the precincts reporting. His opponent, Seton Hall School of Law…
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Boko Haram Releases New Video Allegedly Showing Missing Nigerian Schoolgirls
The Boko Haram terrorist cell released a video on Monday claiming to show the kidnapped schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno state, Nigeria. In the video, some hundred girls were shown wearing full-length hijab and praying. In the video, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said that the girls had been “liberated” and are Muslim now. He…
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A Mother’s Love: Stories of Struggle, Sacrifice, Love and Wisdom
It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and many of us may feel the keen absence of the women who meant the most to us. How many times have you wished you could turn back the hands of time and have one more conversation with one of the most influential women of your life? Maybe have notes of…
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Meet the 19-Year-Old Whose Racism Prank Fooled the Net
When the video broke it shook the Internet. It was an unbelievably horrifying depiction of overt racism with a white man insisting that a black woman move to the back of the bus where she belonged, much to the horror of everyone else on the Brooklyn, N.Y., bus. In cellphone footage posted online, the white…
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Donald Sterling Insists He’s Not Racist in New Recording
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is still being recorded, but this time the taped phone call captures an angry Sterling saying that he’s not racist, the New York Post reports. “You think I’m a racist?” Sterling asked his friend during a recorded conversation obtained by RadarOnline, the Post reported. “You think I have anything…
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