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  • Black Beauty Is a Real Crowd-Pleaser: Best Pics From Afropunk 2017

    Melanin. Color. Texture. Funk. Freedom. Afropunk, the annual music and arts festival going since 2005, is not free anymore, but with all this gorgeousness and headliners like Raphael Saadiq and Solange, SZA and Soul II Soul, Anderson Paak and ThunderCat, any money paid is worth way more than two assholes in a ring. Back in…

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  • Before You Give Up on Humanity … Read This

    Looks like there is still good in this going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-early world we now find ourselves in. The New York Daily News reports that a random man climbed across an elevated girder in a New York City subway station to talk a suicidal woman down on Saturday. Witnesses say that the man followed the young woman in…

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  • New Okla. Police Chief Resigns Over Neo-Nazi Ties, Claims He Was Hacked

    Social media continues to rip the mask off white supremacy. This time, a police chief for a small town in Oklahoma said his goodbyes to his job after being exposed for having ties to not one, but two neo-Nazi websites. Bart Alsbrook, who was named interim Colbert, Okla., police chief on Tuesday, has denied the…

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  • 5 Things Someone Who Didn’t Watch the Fight but Had to Report on the Fight Found Interesting About the Fight

    I didn’t have $100 for this so-called fight, and I kinda forbade asked my husband not to order it. Therefore, I got my Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight moments from social media. Here are the five things this reporter found the most interesting: 1. Mayweather came out in some Desus Nice-glittery-ski-mask-rob-a-bank contraption. I guess. 2. The…

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  • Netflix Jumps Into the Weed Game With Strains Based on Popular Shows

    Netflix and chill? More like Netflix and bake, now that the company has introduced a new line of cannabis strains based on its original programming. The on-fire streaming service introduced the Netflix Collection, a line of boutique strains of that goody good being sold only at the Alternative Herbal Health Services in West Hollywood, Calif.,…

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  • So, What Was This White Dude Doing Writing ‘Black Lives Matter!’ All Over Charleston, W.Va.?

    Is he an ally-hero like Heather Heyer, putting it down for the cause? Or is he an agent provocateur trying to pin some kind of crime on the Black Lives Matter movement? Either way, it’s all right with me. But let’s investigate. The facts are that Charleston, W.Va., police arrested Ray Hensley Jr. last week…

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  • Awesome Teacher Breaks Down Geography With Cardi B’s ‘Bodak Yellow’

    Hands down, the sure-shot hit of the summer is “Bodak Yellow,” by Bronx, N.Y., rapper Cardi B, now officially in the classroom via the genius of one creative teacher. Erica Buddington, a self-described arts educator, recently posted a video on Twitter, rapping the “map version” of the hit song as her class goes awf in…

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  • 10 Disgusting Things Joe Arpaio Did as Sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.

    Recently, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was crowned some kind of racist folk hero, keeper of the Barack Obama Birther theory and all-around example of an abusive cop. So of course, our president thought him a man deserving of a pardon. Whether you believe Donald Trump pardoned Arpaio because he wanted to divert attention from the umpteenth…

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  • #ImWithKap: Hundreds Rally at NFL Headquarters for Colin Kaepernick, Call for Boycott if Demands Not Met

    Nearly 1,000 people showed up at the New York City headquarters of the National Football League Wednesday in support of Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback many see as being unfairly blackballed for “taking a knee” during the national anthem. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback knelt during the 2016 season to bring light to police brutality…

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  • Howard University Is Doing the Most, Has Endowed James Comey With a Chair in Public Policy

    Howard University announced today that it was appointing ex-FBI Chief James Comey as this year’s opening convocation keynote speaker and the 2017-2018 Gwendolyn S. and Colbert I. King endowed chair in public policy. Comey, a former federal prosecutor and FBI head until he was humiliatingly fired by President Donald Trump in May, will kick off…

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Ms. Bronner Helm is the Senior Editorial Director at Colorlines. Mouthy Black Girl. Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow. Shea Butter Feminist. Virgo Sun, Aries Moon.


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