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LeBron James Is Not Even Close to Being the Greatest of All Time. Here Are 6 Reasons
Every time LeBron James makes it to the NBA Finals, there’s always a faction of the NBA fandom trying to make the case that LeBron should be considered the greatest of all time. At which point, longtime basketball fans—who aren’t from Cleveland or Miami—roll their eyes and tell those basketball dilettantes to get on YouTube…
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5 Things You Should Know About Trevor Noah
When Comedy Central announced Monday that South African comedian Trevor Noah would replace Jon Stewart as the next host of The Daily Show, the collective response around the country seemed to be “Trevor who?” After all, the 31-year-old comic only joined the show as a regular correspondent in December and has appeared three times since.…
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SXSW: How Black Twitter Is Changing the Narrative of Black Stories
When the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown landed on the front page of the New York Times last year, it was a game-changing moment in the evolution of black Twitter, particularly in how social media was forcing mainstream news media to look at the way they portrayed African Americans. “Through the posting of two photos and a hashtag,…
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Larry Wilmore’s The Nightly Show Is the Black Talk Show We’ve Been Waiting For
Last week, Larry Wilmore—host of Comedy Central’s new late-night gig The Nightly Show—began his monologue with this: “Man, all of the good bad-race stuff happened already. Seriously. There’s none left. We’re done.” But anyone who’s been paying attention to the fast-changing news cycle these days knows that Wilmore’s razor-sharp comedic timing couldn’t have come at a…
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Call of Duty: 17 Top Black Military Officers
For Veterans Day, we wanted to recognize some of the top African-American military officers in the U.S. armed forces who are serving their country with distinction, even as black officers in the military’s upper ranks remain a rarity. Last year Army Gen. Austin became the 12th commander of Central Command—and the first African American to hold…
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15 Unbreakable Records by Black Athletes
Usually when Chamberlain is on a list like this, it’s for the seemingly untouchable 100-point game in 1962. Though only Kobe Bryant has come close in recent years (81 points in 2006), we can envision a future when some three-point slinging, euro-stepping, baseline-driving wunderkind breaks that record—especially if the NBA keeps passing rules under which a…
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Throwback Thursday: These 6 Debuts Changed Music Forever
If the years that shook the musical landscape were measured on a magnitude scale, 1994 would rate an earth-shattering 10. Twenty years ago, six artists from the world of hip-hop and R&B dropped debut albums that not only signaled each artist’s arrival but also changed music altogether. 1. Ready to Die, the Notorious B.I.G. Released…
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They Got the Beat: 20 Black Music Producers
In honor of Black Music Month, we’ve created a list of the top black music producers working today. The list is a mix of the well-known and the up-and-coming, which means the sounds you hear booming out of car windows this summer will most likely have been created by one of these top black producers.…
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Jackie Robinson: 10 Things You Didn't Know
Most people know that Jackie Robinson became the first African American to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947, and that as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he survived racist attacks from fans, players and even his own teammates to become one of the legends of the game. But…
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Beyond Jackie Robinson: 15 Firsts
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball. In that spirit, here are 15 other barrier breakers who opened doors for future generations simply by proving that African Americans can do it all. Twilight was the first African American to earn a degree…
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