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  • Paltrow and the N-Word: Is It Ever OK?

    The “N**gas in Paris” Twitter controversy is deeply rooted in a lack of agency and ownership over our own vast influence on mainstream culture, Rebecca Carroll writes in a piece for Ebony. The black digerati had their panties in a tweet on Monday when Gwyneth Paltrow — ever the antithesis of all that is negro…

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  • HBO's 'Girls' Misses the Real New York

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  • Black Women Still Aren't the 'Mad Men'

    Daily Beast writer Rebecca Carroll watched Mad Men last Sunday night and noticed a few similarities to her own life. Most significant, she realized that the treatment of black women in the early-1960s AMC drama reflects her experience as an executive today.Flustered at the lobby full of black people, the ad men discuss how best to handle…

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