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University of Md. Names New Diversity Officer After Racial Incidents, Including Killing of Black Student, on Campus
The University of Maryland has tapped a national leader in multicultural education as its new chief diversity officer after complaints from students about a hostile racial climate on the College Park campus and that the school was not doing enough. The Baltimore Sun reports that Roger L. Worthington has been chosen for the new post…
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3rd Mistrial for White Okla. Cop Who Killed Daughter’s Black Boyfriend
Saturday marked the third mistrial in nine months for a former Tulsa, Okla., police officer who admittedly shot and killed his daughter’s black 19-year-old boyfriend. The Associated Press reports that the Tulsa prosecutor on the case expressed shock when District Judge Sharon Holmes again declared a mistrial in the case against Shannon Kepler (Holmes has overseen…
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Rapper Prodigy’s Mural Defaced a Day After Going Up
A mural for recently deceased rap pioneer Prodigy of Mobb Deep was defaced less than 24 hours after it went up in New York City’s Queens borough. Someone appeared to have thrown white paint over the two-story mural of the rapper, born Albert Johnson, who died June 20 in Las Vegas of complications from sickle…
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Recent Black College Grad Beaten to Death in Greece
A recent African-American college grad from Austin, Texas, was beaten to death Friday by a group of 10 men while visiting the Greek island of Zakynthos. Bakari Henderson, 22, was at a bar with his friends when a man approached him and they began fighting. Security asked the men to leave, and the brawl spilled…
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KKK’s Pathetic March in Charlottesville, Va., Met With Throngs of Protesters
Scores of protesters shouted down homegrown terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan as the reviled racists marched in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of Confederate statues from the city. USA Today reports that more than 1,000 multiracial demonstrators flooded this city’s downtown area Saturday to shout down about 50 Klan members, some of whom…
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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…
