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Black Oakland Electric Slides on Racism by Throwing Big-Ass Cookout in Park Where White Lady Called Cops [Updated]
Updated: Monday, May 14, 2018, 6:40 p.m. EDT: The massive cookout that saw a gang (ooh, should I use that word? Hells yea!) of black Oaklanders descend on the park at Lake Merritt days after a white woman called the police on a black family for grilling there had been planned weeks before. It just…
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Chadwick Boseman, aka ‘Blek Pentha,’ Encourages Howard University’s Class of 2018 to Always Seek Purpose
In addition to a slew of notable African-American alumni, including Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston and Phylicia Rashad, Howard alum Chadwick Boseman—the only Black Panther we acknowledge—was the 2018 speaker at the Howard University 2018 Commencement Convocation. Bosemen, who starred in the record-breaking film Black Panther, graduated from Howard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts…
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Virginia Hotel Employee Angrily Calls Black Man a ‘Monkey’ in Dispute Over Room
The tide of wypipo terribleness keeps on flowing (will it ever ebb?). This time, a hotel employee in Virginia earned himself a straight shot to the unemployment line for showing his whitest ass in a dispute with an African-American customer in early May. A clerk at the Country Inn & Suites by Radisson in Newport…
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That’s Dr. Chano to You: Chance the Rapper Praises the Great Name of Beyoncé in Dillard Commencement Speech
Chancelor Jonathan Bennett, known to most as Chance the Rapper or Lil Chano, gave a rousing commencement address to the graduates of Dillard University in New Orleans on Saturday, a not ahistorical speech, charging the graduates to strive to surpass those who came before them. “The highest form of respect that we can pay to…
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André 3000 Drops 2 New Songs for Mother’s Day
André 3000, one of the best who ever did it, dug into his personal stash of music to bless us with two new joints for Mother’s Day. And frankly, that nigga playing clarinet for 17 minutes still sounds better than all the rap that’s out here today. Mother’s Day, especially for those who have lost…
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Did Azealia Banks Bully Cardi B Into Deleting Her Instagram Account?
Azealia Banks, “the poster child for self-destruction,” continues to sow her seeds of dissension by calling out yet another black woman in entertainment for some politically impossible standard of blackness that she herself cannot live up to. This time, that woman is Cardi B, who, after clapping back at Banks on Friday, deleted her entire…
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R. Kelly Gives a Defiant Performance in Midst of North Carolina Protests and #MuteRKelly Campaign
I thought this dude was canceled. Apparently not. And as a recent show in Greensboro, N.C., reveals, R. Kelly is still as nasty as he wanna be, with his fans there to support this accused child sexual predator and woman abuser. The Associated Press reports that the singer told the crowd gathered for his concert…
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Video Released After Teen Tased and Killed by Michigan State Troopers Underscores Law Enforcement’s Utter Contempt for Black Americans
The incivility and cruelty of law enforcement against black citizens of the United States continues unabated. And it’s not just white officers who hate the black bodies they are sworn to serve and protect (as the case of Freddie Gray and plenty of others show). In a recent report by WXYZ-TV in Detroit, an investigator…
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon Is an Epic Tale From the Last Known Survivor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Like gifts from the grave, the words of Zora Neale Hurston, revered mother of black literary and womanist canon, have come back to bless us. In 1931, Viking Press rejected Hurston’s manuscript for Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” the not-yet-novelist and folklorist’s first-person account of 89-year-old Oluale Kossula (slave name: Cudjo Lewis),…
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We Knew When Trump Said His Numbers Doubled Among the Blacks That He Was Lying. Here’s Why
Why anyone would believe anything Donald Trump says is beyond me. I mean, it has been proved that the president has lied at least 3,000 times since he took office. But the spin—and the media’s consistent repeating of it—doesn’t stop. Recently, Trump bragged about his support “doubling” among African Americans, but many of us, including…
