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Kerry Washington Looks Weird on the Cover of Lucky Magazine
And once again someone has botched Kerry Washington’s appearance on a magazine cover by lightening her skin a wee bit too much (or a lot). In the December/January issue of Lucky magazine we see an overedited, nearly unrecognizable Washington, with lighter, frosty-looking skin and narrower, thinner features. Twitter didn’t take long to jump on the…
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Angela Lansbury Doesn’t Want a Murder, She Wrote Remake
As it turns out, not everyone is excited about Octavia Spencer’s new gig as Jessica Fletcher in NBC’s remake of Murder, She Wrote. Revered actress Angela Lansbury, who was the original Jessica Fletcher, thinks “it’s a mistake” to refer to the new series by the old name. “I think it’s a mistake to call it…
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White Candidate Who Implied He Was Black Denies Deceiving Voters
Dave Wilson, the white candidate who implied he was black and won a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees, denied accusations that he deceived voters. “Since this was a heavily African-American district and my opponent is African-American, I wanted to keep race out of it,” Wilson told ABC News. Wilson won the…
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At UCLA, Black Men Only 3.8 Percent of Population
The University of California, Los Angeles, has a diversity problem, and some students aren’t going to let it rest without speaking up. Sy Stokes, a third-year student at UCLA, posted a video to YouTube last week highlighting the lack of diversity on campus. Stokes and a few other black men at the campus showed signs…
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Posthumous Retrial Possible for Black Teen Executed for Murder in 1944
In 1944 a 95-pound 14-year-old boy was strapped to an electric chair in South Carolina for murdering two little girls, ages 7 and 11. He is the youngest person ever to be executed in the United States in the last 100 years, The Telegraph reports. George Stinney, an African American, was accused of killing two…
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Clotting Gene Gives Clue to Black Heart Disease
Black Americans are twice as likely to develop heart disease as white Americans, and a gene may yield a clue as to why, a new study has found. According to the New Scientist, the fragments in the blood, or platelets, form blood clots—components of heart disease and heart attack—more easily in African Americans. “Unexpectedly, we…
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America’s Oldest Known WWII Vet to Meet With President
President Barack Obama is slated to meet with the oldest living World War II veteran in honor of Veterans Day, USA Today reports. Richard Overton, 107 years young, wondered out loud one day last May while touring the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., what it would…
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'Urban Terrorism' in Detroit and No One Noticed
The gunman had a beef with the guys gambling in the back of Al’s Barber Shop in Detroit, so he strapped on body armor and shot into the crowd of people Wednesday evening. At least one man in the crowd returned fire. In total three men were killed and six were wounded. The police have…
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Even the KKK Is Insulted by Kid’s Klansman Halloween Costume
When you offend the most notorious hate group in the United States of America with your Halloween costume, you might have gone a smidge too far. As it turns out, the Ku Klux Klan isn’t at all impressed, honored or pleased by a 7-year-old Virginia boy’s Halloween costume, which imitated the long, white robes of…
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Roots Star LeVar Burton Wants to Know Why Miniseries Needs Remake
In an interview with New York magazine, Roots star LeVar Burton had one simple question about the History Channel’s intended remake of the popular 1970s miniseries: “My initial reaction was, why?” Burton said in the interview. The actor proudly spoke of the original TV drama, saying that it wasn’t “just art for art’s sake” but,…
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