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#BlackGirlMagic: US Open Women’s Singles Semifinals Will Feature 2 American Black Women
The U.S. Open Women’s Singles Semifinals will be a display of American #BlackGirlMagic (word to CaShawn Thompson) when Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens face off in what is likely to be a match for the ages, and we are all very excited because yes, black girls who play tennis come through! Is Compton, Calif., in…
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After Skinnin’ and Grinnin’ for Trump, Steve Harvey Says He Should Have Listened to His Wife and Skipped Meeting
Steve “Chompers” Harvey—who famously met with Donald Trump earlier this year and then spent the next several months caping for the monster that is in the highest position in the country—now says he should have listened to his wife and skipped the meeting entirely, according to a recent interview. Harvey recently sat down with the…
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Backlash Over Owner’s Donation to Ex-KKK Leader Forces Minneapolis Bar to Close
After finding out a Minneapolis club owner donated $500 to the 2016 Senate campaign of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, performers’ cancellations and customers’ boycotting forced the club to close last week. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that former employees of Club Jäger confirmed Friday that the club was closed, leaving 17 employees…
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L’Oreal Drops 1st Transgender Model Because Her Post Calling Out White Privilege Is ‘at Odds With’ Their ‘Values’
Munroe Bergdorf, the first transgender model to ever be hired by beauty brand L’Oreal, was dropped from her contract Friday after a Facebook post in which she discussed and condemned racism and white privilege was posted by an online media outlet and sparked outrage from white people who don’t like it when white privilege is…
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Philando Castile’s Legacy of Helping His Students Pay for Their Lunches Lives On
Philando Castile was known as a caring man at the St. Paul, Minn., school where he worked as a cafeteria supervisor. He cared so much for the children he served that he often paid for their lunches himself when they were unable to, and now, thanks to a local college professor, that generosity will continue…
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Trump Energy Official Resigns After Claiming Controversial Comments Attributed to Him Were the Result of Hacking
William C. Bradford, appointed by Donald Trump to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, resigned Thursday afternoon in the midst of a scandal involving disparaging comments he allegedly made online regarding former President Barack Obama and his mother. On Tuesday, CNN’s KFile reported on evidence it found that suggested…
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Mind Your Own Vagina: On Yvonne Orji, Adult Virgins and Personal Sexual Choices
When we say we want women to be free to make their own sexual choices, do we only mean that when the choice is one that we would make for ourselves? When we say that women should have agency over their own bodies, do we mean only if that agency is not influenced by other…
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Los Angeles City Council Votes to Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples Day as a City Holiday
On Wednesday the Los Angeles City Council voted to eliminate the Columbus Day holiday from the city calendar in a move that sides with activists who believe the Italian pirate explorer is a symbol of genocide for Native indigenous people. The Los Angeles Times reports that although Italian-American civic groups objected to the move, the…
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Houston School District Will Provide 3 Free Meals a Day to All Students in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey
The Houston Independent School District has found a way to help all the families it serves in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey. On Wednesday the district announced that it will waive the required application process for the National School Lunch/School Breakfast Program and provide free meals to all students this school…
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Closing Low-Performing Schools More Likely to Negatively Affect Black and Hispanic Students: Report
Charter schools are on the rise across the country, and as more public K-12 schools are found not to be delivering the type of high-quality education that students in their districts deserve, the push to close low-performing schools has increased. A recent study has concluded that when those closures happen, schools that serve predominantly black…
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