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No Slaves, No Brutality: We Deserve a Holiday
You should go see The Best Man Holiday when it hits theaters Friday, Nov. 15. I don’t know anything about what you like, but if your movie-watching habits are anything like mine, you’ve earned this film. I like my films black. That doesn’t mean I like all black films. I don’t. I’m just more liable…
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When Big Men Refuse to Fight
This week’s dustup between former teammates Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito and the Miami Dolphins organization has been woven into a web of controversy. Incognito, the white veteran leader on the Dolphins, was put in charge of toughening up Martin, a black second-year guard out of Stanford who played tackle to Incognito’s guard on the…
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Street Harassment: What Men Can Learn
(The Root) — 1. “Smile, girl.” 2. “God bless you.” 3. “Slow down, I really wanna get to know you.” 4. “Hey, beautiful.” 5. “What that mouth do?” If you know that one of these expressions is not like the others, you’re a regular guy (correct answer is No. 2). If you can spot the…
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Why Is Al Sharpton Renting an Apartment in Chicago?
On Sunday in Chicago, while in town for several preaching engagements and to promote his new book, The Rejected Stone, the Rev. Al Sharpton announced that he is renting an apartment on the West Side of Chicago. Sharpton is making good on an announcement he made back in July, saying that he planned on taking…
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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Are Engaged
By all accounts it was a made-for-TV moment, and considering the people involved, we just might see it on the small screen. Monday night, for Kim Kardashian’s 33rd birthday, Kanye West proposed to her in front of friends and family at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Eonline.com is reporting. The reality-television superstar said yes to…
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Obama Appoints 1st Black Chief Judge of US Court of Federal Claims
(The Root) — Just a month after Patricia E. Campbell-Smith was appointed a judge for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and two days after being confirmed, President Barack Obama has promoted her to the position of chief judge of the court. With the appointment, Judge Campbell-Smith is the first African American to hold that…
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Diddy Launches Revolt TV
On Monday at 8 p.m. EDT, more than 34 million homes had access to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ new brainchild, Revolt TV, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The new cable channel, which is available to 22 million Comcast subscribers and 12 million Time Warner Cable customers, is Diddy’s major play into the television world. In launching…
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Red Lobster Customer: Handwriting on Racist Note Is Not His
What do you call a person who, instead of leaving a tip at a restaurant, writes “none” on the receipt and instead jots down the n-word near the line asking for “Total”? A racist cheapskate would be fitting. But don’t call Devin Barnes one — he denies being the man who wrote the hurtful word…
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Black Woman's Cooking Invention Hits Mainstream
The day Mary Hunter, 73, of Gary, Ind., came up with the idea for a way to marinate the inside of the big roasts she would make for her fellow congregation members at Yes Lord Church, she knew she had invented a revolutionary cooking tool. But according to a profile on Hunter in the New…
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Fact-Checking '12 Years a Slave'
The difficulty of an adapting a book into a film is staying true to the original text. And, of course, those who have read a work prior to seeing the film will go into the movie making mental notes about what the film got right, what it got wrong and what it decided to keep…
