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Who’s Surprised? April Ryan Not Invited to White House Holiday Party for 1st Time in 20 Years
April Ryan, the black woman the White House loves to hate on, will not be going to the scary White House white-walking winter wonder-klan for its annual Christmas party—for the first time in 20 years. The NAACP tweeted the news Wednesday morning, saying that Ryan was not invited. The veteran White House correspondent, who recently…
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5 New Jersey Black Churches Vandalized but Police Determine It’s No Hate Crime
The vandalism at five suburban New Jersey churches has been determined not to be an act of racial terror but that of a man who lived in the area and acted alone, according to authorities. “As a result of the investigation, no evidence was obtained that would indicate this was a bias incident which legally…
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Grace in Action: Black Family of 7 Adopts 6 White Siblings
This spring, six Ohio foster siblings found themselves a home—together and without being broken up. That in and of itself is profound, but the fact that the siblings are white and their adoptive family are black—with five children of their own—is incredible. The judge in the case, Ralph Winkler, said that as long as he…
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Another One Bites the Dust: Rep. John Conyers Steps Down From House Judiciary Committee Over Sexual Harassment Claims
Rep. John Conyers, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 50 years, said this week that he was not going to resign his seat over accusations of sexually harassing female staffers. But on Sunday, the Michigan Democrat tweeted that he would be stepping down as the ranking Democrat on the…
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‘We Cannot Remain Silent’: Rwanda Offers to Take in 30,000 African Migrants at Risk for Being Sold Into Slavery
It has almost become a mantra these days: “I can’t believe that this is happening in 2017.” The way race relations in the U.S. are going, we could be in 1917, or 1817, especially with the recent exposé of the sale of people—black people—in this the year of our Lord. Since a CNN report showing…
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Awwww … Accidental Thanksgiving Duo Spend the Holiday Together Again This Year
Who could forget the adorable story of the young black man in Arizona who mistakenly got a text and showed up to “grandma’s” house last year? And that when then-17-year-old Jamal Hinton rolled up to Wanda Dench’s home, a tradition was born? We are happy to report that this year, the pair kept it going,…
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Kim Kardashian Hires Criminal Attorney to Help With Cases of 2 Jailed Black Women: Cyntoia Brown and Alice Johnson
Look at Kim Kardashian jumping in with tangible help for black women in trouble. According to reports, the famous-for-being-famous celeb has hired high-powered Los Angeles criminal attorney Shawn Holley (who was on the same O.J. Simpson “dream team” as Kardashian’s late father, Robert Kardashian) to help in the cases of two black women who have…
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Malia Obama Maligned and Defended for Being a Regular Person
The older daughter of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama is back in the news just for being a regular college student, doing the things that college students (or perhaps 19-year-olds in general) do: kissing, smoking and just pushing boundaries as they morph into adults. Too bad that because Malia Obama’s father…
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Jordan Peele Says Tiger Woods Is ‘in the Sunken Place’
My question is: Has Tiger Woods ever not been in the sunken place? This is the man who was so non-black-identified that he made up his own race (including giving Caucasian and American Indian equal footing to black and Asian with an African-American father and a mother from Thailand). Then he turned out to be…
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Don’t Sleep! Gifts for the Newly Woke on Black (AF) Friday
Let’s just keep it real: The newly converted, whether they be Muslims or Masons, AKAs or vegans … can be totally exasperating when they see “the light.” In the case of the freshly woke, that light is noire, and it manifests in tried-and-true platitudes like, “Black is beautiful,” “Natural hair is fabulous” or “Resistance is…
