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  • Forget That White Lady’s Emmett Till Painting; These Black Artists Are Truly Representing at the Whitney Biennial

    At this year’s Whitney Biennial, the award for the most discussed and divisive piece of art easily goes to white artist Dana Schutz’s painting of the dead body of Emmett Till called Open Casket. The painting has provoked protests and sparked debates about white exploitation of black trauma, freedom of expression and censorship. As a…

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  • 7 Times Harriet Tubman Was a Badass Superhero

    Harriet Tubman is having a moment. Right now she is the “it” girl of history. No longer relegated to the pages of schoolbooks during Black History Month, the freedom-fighting, self-liberating she-warrior and “conductor” on the Underground Railroad is getting the recognition she so richly deserves. Last year the Treasury Department announced that Tubman would replace…

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  • Watch: SNL’s Skit About Drugs That Sound Like Black Names Is Just Dumb, Racist Trash

    Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer made her debut as host of Saturday Night Live last night. I’ll confess I missed it because I had better things to do on a Saturday night. But then this dumb-ass skit of Spencer playing a woman who’s suing a drug company because they stole the names of her family…

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  • My Black History: When Magic Johnson Announced That He Had HIV, It Was a Wake-Up Call

    Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…

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  • 26-Year-Old Becomes Stockton, Calif.’s 1st Black Mayor

    Even though Tuesday night didn’t give us the history-making moment we were all expecting, for Stockton Calif., City Councilman Michael Tubbs, election night was doubly historic. Not only did he become the city’s first black mayor, but he also becomes the youngest mayor in the city’s history, according to the Stockton Record. “I’m tired of…

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  • 7 Black Movies to See if You Can’t Bear to See Birth of a Nation (or Even if You Do)

    Ever since Nate Parker’s film The Birth of a Nation earned a record $17.5 million distribution deal and walked away with the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, the movie has been positioned as the film most likely to solve Hollywood’s #OscarsSoWhite problem. But Parker’s past…

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  • Federal Court Says It’s Totally Not Racist to Ban Dreadlocks at Work

    A federal appeals court ruled that employers who ban dreadlocks in the workplace are not engaging in racial discrimination, according to the Huffington Post. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 3-0 last week to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a 2013 lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Chastity…

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  • 10 Things We Can’t Wait to See in the New TV Season

    Every year around this time, the big four broadcast networks­—ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox (I don’t count the CW, since it dropped Girlfriends)—make a big deal of trotting out their new shows for the fall TV season. And while many network executives seem to have gotten the memo about diversity­—except, apparently, CBS, whose president has…

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  • The 7 Most Outrageous and Racist Acts Found in DOJ’s Report on Baltimore Police Department

    The Department of Justice’s scathing report on the Baltimore Police Department spelled out in exacting detail how the BPD violated the constitutional rights of black residents through a series of brutal and abusive tactics that basically had a community under siege. Perusing the pages of the report is like reading some bizarro crime novel, where…

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  • MLK’s Daughter Calls Out Trump for His 2nd Amendment Comments

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who seems to be plagued by a permanent case of foot-in-mouth disease, dropped another doozy Tuesday in Wilmington, N.C. During a campaign speech, Trump suggested that if Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton were to win, she would appoint Supreme Court justices who would abolish the Second Amendment (Clinton has never…

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