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Riley Cooper Doesn't Want Teammates' Forgiveness
Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper, who was caught last week on tape saying the n-word at a Kenny Chesney concert, returned to the team’s training camp with a surprising message to the media: He has told all of his teammates not to exonerate him for his remarks, according to ESPN. “I talked to everyone…
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Connects Zimmerman With Stop and Frisk
William C. Thompson Jr. is the only black candidate in the New York City mayoral race. He has never spoken out explicitly against Gotham City’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy. But in a New York Times article, Thompson not only came out against stop and frisk but also drew a correlation between the policy and George Zimmerman’s…
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Spike Lee's List of 50 Must-Watch Films for Filmmakers
As a professor and creative director at New York University’s film school, Spike Lee has been honing the minds of future filmmakers for the past 15 years. One of his study guides includes a list that he gives to his students of the 50 films he feels every aspiring filmmaker should watch. The list is…
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Kanye West Starts Music Program in Chicago
Kanye West is arguably the biggest music star to have ever come out of Chicago, but sometimes people forget about his roots in the Second City. West himself has made it no easier for fans to remember, rapping almost exclusively about trips to Paris and other worldwide travels, but recently he made a grand gesture…
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Jay-Z on the George Zimmerman Verdict
Many have spoken out against the unfortunate not-guilty verdict for George Zimmerman, who was on trial for killing 17-year-old unarmed Trayvon Martin. From the president of the United States to Stevie Wonder, people have expressed a range of emotions on not only the verdict but also the issue of race, which has been at the…
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Tristan Wilds: 'The Wire' Movie Will Never Happen
In an interview with MTV’s Hive, actor Tristan “Mack” Wilds was asked about the possibility of there being a movie version of The Wire. Wilds played the likable bad guy Michael Lee in the fourth and fifth seasons of the groundbreaking HBO drama and is currently promoting his music debut, in which he’s rapping under the…
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Is 'Rocky 7' Next for 'Fruitvale Station' Director?
Still riding the wave of success from his directorial debut, Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler is in talks to direct the next installment in the famed Rocky franchise, according to Deadline. The film, currently entitled Creed, the first in the series since 2006, would reportedly reunite Coogler with actor Michael B. Jordan, who stars as Oscar Grant…
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Family Saved by George Zimmerman Cancels Press Conference
Dana and Mark Gerstle, the couple rescued from their overturned Ford Explorer by George Zimmerman, have canceled a press conference. According to Gawker, the press conference was going to be hosted by Mark O’Mara, the lawyer who defended Zimmerman and successfully had him acquitted of charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the killing of…
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Could BET Lose 'The Game' Online?
After the television series The Game was canceled in 2009, a social media campaign began to bring the show back. That effort was successful, and The Game returned to television in 2011, with an astonishing 7.7 million viewers tuning in to the series premiere. Once again, success was due in part to the fan base’s…
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Black Women With Breast Cancer Still Fare Worse Than White Women
Breast-cancer survival rates for black women remain somewhere in the neighborhood of three years lower than those of white women, and there have been several theories as to why this is. According to the New York Times, a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania reveals that a lack of adequate health care…
