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The Mining Queen: South Africa’s Daphne Mashile-Nkosi Named CEO of the Year
Call her the Iron Lady. South Africa’s Daphne Mashile-Nkosi was named CEO of the Year last week at the African CEO Forum in Geneva—an outstanding accomplishment for a black woman navigating the country’s male-dominated mining industry, Destiny Connect reports. According to the report, the award recognizes the CEO who is committed to and successful in…
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12 Years a Slave Filming Site to Become Baseball Stadium
It was a life-altering, heartbreaking scene: Chiwetel Ejiofor, portraying Solomon Northup in the film 12 Years a Slave, had woken up to find himself imprisoned and set to be sold into slavery. The powerful scene was filmed in Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Va., a site known for its connection to the slave trade. But now, according…
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Kobe Bryant on Trayvon Martin: Don’t Defend Someone Just Because He’s Black
Kobe Bryant wasn’t impressed by the Miami Heat’s 2012 hoodie photo, which was aimed at showing solidarity and support for slain unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, the International Business Times reports. According to the site, in the upcoming March 31 issue of the New Yorker, Bryant discusses the controversial topic that still ripples through the nation,…
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Oprah Winfrey Launching Inspirational Tour
Oprah Winfrey is bringing out the big guns for her new venture—an eight-city inspirational tour that will encourage attendees to be their best, Variety reports. It has been dubbed “Oprah’s The Life You Want Weekend,” and the mogul’s magazine, cable network and Harpo production company, along with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, will be leading the…
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Judge Joe Brown Doesn’t Think He Was Out of Line. He's Contesting Charges
Looks like Judge Joe Brown isn’t going to take his contempt charges lying down. In an interview with Good Morning America, Brown insisted that he hadn’t done anything wrong, and he would repeat the actions that got him sentenced to five days in prison, The Associated Press reports. According to him, he did something that…
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Paul Ryan Insists He’s Not Racist
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is once again addressing the controversy behind his racially charged comments, which opined that “inner city” folk not having the desire to work, this time saying that he did not have “a racist bone” in his body. According to The Washington Post, Ryan acknowledged in the interview that he had spoken…
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Members of Secret Service Sent Home After Agent Is Found Drunk
A handful of members of the Secret Service have landed in trouble after enjoying a trip to the Netherlands, where they were supposed to be protecting the president, a tad too much. According to New York’s Daily News, three agents who were in the Netherlands ahead of President Obama were sent home after hotel employees found…
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Hollywood Afraid to ‘Let Black People Tell Stories’
In a brutally honest interview, Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton slammed the Hollywood “liberals” who don’t let black people “tell the stories,” the Hollywood Reporter reveals. In an interview with the entertainment outlet released on Monday, part of its “Hollywood Masters” series, Singleton came down hard on the major studios for refusing to…
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Belgian Newspaper Apologizes for Depicting the Obamas as Apes
Belgian newspaper De Morgen has formally apologized after a harsh backlash over an image the paper published Saturday depicting President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes, Al Jazeera reports. The Flemish newspaper published the ape photo and another of President Obama with language describing him as a marijuana seller in a satire…
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Google celebrates the ‘Godmother’ of Civil Rights
Something is different about today’s Google landing page. In the middle of the search engine’s logo, there’s the soft image of a smiling woman wearing a signature hat atop her curls. It is Dr. Dorothy Irene Height, dubbed the “godmother of the civil rights movement,” as President Barack Obama aptly put it when mourning her passing four…
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