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Martha Stewart Went All Bill Maher on Us: Got Too Comfortable and Dropped the N-Word
When will these white folks learn that being black adjacent doesn’t mean they can say any form of the n-word or even “Negro”? Martha Stewart, formerly the whitest woman in America before she did a bid for insider trading and started cavorting with rappers like Snoop Dogg, used the only-for-black-people word in a conversation with…
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Black Fox Business Host Suspended Over Sexual Harassment Claim
Is this equal opportunity misogyny? Fox Business Network—whose sister network Fox News has been accused of being a festering cesspool of sexual misconduct—has suspended one of its team over just that. Charles Payne, host of Making Money on Fox Business Network and one of a few African-American hosts there, has been suspended amid sexual harassment…
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Migos Kicked Off Delta Flight, Then Given Entire Plane After Manager Says They Were Racially Profiled
Looks like Takeoff from the Migos was prevented from doing just that on Friday. Like our fearless leader Danielle Belton, it seems that a Delta flight attendant did not recognize the bubblin’ rap trio and therefore didn’t know that this would be bad bad bad (and so not boujee) for Delta’s publicity. TMZ reports that…
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Video Footage Exonerates Venus Williams in Fatal Car Crash
Video footage is turning out to be a real help for African Americans in this country, whose word is rarely taken as truth. And so it goes for tennis star Venus Williams, who, after enduring public shame and sadness over a car accident that ended a man’s life, appears not to have been at fault.…
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Ala. Seniors Prove It’s Never Too Late for Real Love
One Alabama couple is showing us that real love has no limit—especially no age limit. Murphy Wilson, 70, and Lucinda Myers, 67, plan to wed on July 29 in Huntsville, Ala. Like the young whippersnappers these days, they took a series of engagement photos to celebrate their upcoming nuptials, and social media swooned. Comedian Niecy…
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Venus and Serena 2.0? Compton, Calif., Sisters Set to Take Over Golf
Not only has Compton, Calif., produced Dre, Kendrick, Issa, Venus and Serena, but soon there may be two more luminaries to hail from its notorious, talent-producing streets. The Phillips sisters from Compton are already being compared to the Williams sisters in that they are prodigies in a white-dominated sport. ABC 7 reports that last week,…
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Oh, the Shade! Obama Says US Experiencing ‘Temporary Absence of Leadership’
He might not always be there when we call, but Barack Obama is always on time. Though many have looked to Obama to comment on this debacle of a Trump presidency, the former president has in general refrained from commenting on his successor … except on Monday, when he spoke in Seoul, South Korea. Obama,…
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Venus Williams Cries Over Motorist’s Death
Venus Williams, clearly emotional about a car crash she was involved in that left a 78-year-old dead, wiped away tears during a Wimbledon press conference in England on Monday. She was recently found to be negligent in the death of Jerome Barson in Florida and is reportedly being sued for wrongful death by his family.…
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Trump’s DOJ Civil Rights Pick Defended Corporations Against … Discrimination
Last week, President Donald Trump put forth his nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, giving many social justice and LGBTQ activists major pause. Eric Dreiband, a Washington, D.C.-based labor attorney, served as general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President George W. Bush. He has also made a career of…
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Justice for Jasmine: Black Miss. Teen Forced to Share Valedictorian Title Sues
A black mother brought a federal lawsuit against a Mississippi school district last week, claiming that it made her daughter “co-valedictorian” with a white student who had a lower grade-point average. Jasmine Shepard, the very first black valedictorian in 110 years in the Cleveland, Miss., school district, says that the day before graduation last year,…
