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Black Students at UC Santa Cruz Take Over Administration Building for 3 Days Until Demands Are Met
Black students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, believed that a “hostile climate” was being fostered against them on the school’s campus, so last week they took over an administrative building for three days until the university agreed to meet their demands. The protest was organized by the Afrikan/Black Student Alliance, and KSBW reports…
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Phaedra Is Fired for Fueling Vicious Rumors and Lies on Real Housewives of Atlanta
Phaedra Parks, the Southern-belle attorney who always has a side hustle, a side eye and plenty of shade, has been fired from The Real Housewives of Atlanta for spreading a vicious lie about castmate Kandi Burruss and her husband, Todd Tucker. According to TMZ, Phaedra was let go because during the filming of the most…
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Sheila Jackson Lee Defends Obamacare on House Floor, GOP Congressman Calls Her ‘Hysterical’
Thursday morning, while we were all preparing to lose our health insurance, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stood on the House floor and gave the kind of speech that would have you nodding your head and saying “Amen” if you were in church. When she was done, Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) called her “hysterical.” Lee…
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Black Students at Harvard Will Host Individual Graduation Ceremony
Graduating from Harvard University is a huge accomplishment for any student, and the commemoration of that event should be something that will be remembered for a lifetime. For black graduate students in 2017, that memory will come in the form of an individual ceremony, the first such ceremony in recent history. The event, which took…
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Ebony Magazine Cuts a Third of Its Staff and Moves Editorial Operations to Los Angeles
A major shake-up happened at Ebony magazine this week as the historic black publication laid off nearly a third of its staff and made plans to consolidate editorial operations with sister publication Jet in Los Angeles. Ebony is a monthly lifestyle magazine that was launched in Chicago in 1945 and has called the city home…
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Murder Warrant Issued for Roy Oliver, Texas Cop Who Killed Jordan Edwards
The fired Balch Springs, Texas, police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards as he attempted to leave a party that got out of hand has been charged with murder. Although a judge signed the murder warrant Friday afternoon, the Dallas Morning News reports that Roy Oliver, the officer in question, has not been…
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Report: Life Expectancy for Black Americans Improves, Racial Mortality Gap Closing
A report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that since 1999, the life expectancy for black Americans has improved dramatically, and the mortality gap between white and black Americans has been cut in half. Between 1999 and 2015, there was a 25 percent overall drop in the death rate for…
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Maxine Waters Says She’s Putting Her ‘Career on the Line’ to Resist Donald Trump
Baby, your Auntie Maxine is fed the eff up, and she’s not going to take it anymore. The Democratic representative from California says she is putting her “career on the line” to speak out against Donald Trump, and that’s more than what a lot of our passive-ass senators and representatives are willing to do. At…
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Black Lives Matter Changes Tactics From Protests to Policy, Debunks Myths About Movement
More than 100 days into a Donald Trump presidency, it has become clear that his campaign promises have transformed into discriminatory public policies, and with an attorney general and a Justice Department focused on championing police while simultaneously criminalizing protest and political criticism, it is important that our greatest resistance movement change with the times.…
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#Flint: More Than 8,000 Residents Receive Notice of Tax Liens on Their Properties for Unpaid Water Bills
Here is your regular reminder that the residents of Flint, Mich., have not had clean water for just over three years. Unfortunately, they are still expected to pay water bills for water that is neither drinkable nor usable, and on the heels of last month’s shut-offs for nonpayment of said water bills, this month, residents…
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