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Halle Berry Makes Her Instagram Debut With This Sultry Photo
Watch out, world. Halle Berry’s on the ‘gram. That’s right: She made her Instagram debut Wednesday with a sexy photo of her, with bare back and messy hair, standing in the middle of what appears to be a jungle. She explained that she loves photography and is looking forward to sharing bits and pieces of…
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James Earl Jones Reveals How He Accidentally Learned He Had Diabetes
It was 20 years ago, and James Earl Jones was in the thick of his successful career as an actor. He signed up for an exercise event to lose weight and fell asleep on a bench in the gym. That raised a red flag for a nearby doctor, and the news he got afterward changed…
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A Black Environmental Group Joins Native Alaskans in Calling for Protections of the Arctic Refuge
What does a woman who grew up in Oakland, Calif.—the heart of an urban center—have in common with a woman with roots in the remote outskirts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska? More than you think. We are two determined women of color—united by our belief that human rights and social justice are…
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The GOP Won the South, but It Will Lose the White House
Watch carefully, folks. We may be witnessing an astonishing historical phenomenon: the death of a major American political party. In real time, the GOP is devouring itself—or, rather, Donald Trump is generating a feeding frenzy; and whether by suicide, murder, fratricide or whatever, the party of Lincoln is on track to implode by Election Day,…
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Pittsburgh TV Anchor Fired After Racist Facebook Post
A Pittsburgh-area news anchor was fired Wednesday after engaging in racial profiling of the worst kind on her official Facebook page, saying that the killers in a brutal area murder were “young black men,” reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. After a horrific mass shooting in early March in Wilkinsburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh, WTAE-TV news anchor Wendy…
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Coca-Cola Divests Significant Support From Republican National Convention
Coca-Cola, a longtime sponsor of the Republican National Convention, has declined to match the $660,000 it provided for the 2012 Republican National Convention, dropping its donation to $75,000 for this year’s gathering. At this point, most bets are on businessman Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee, and the New York Times reports that many companies…
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The People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: Mark Fuhrman Caught on Tape
Laura Hart McKinney, an aspiring screenwriter living in North Carolina, is watching A Current Affair’s recap of the O.J. Simpson trial when her phone rings. It’s an O.J. investigator, wondering if she will give him copies of an interview she did with Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman. McKinney doesn’t want to help O.J. and…
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Microsoft Donates $1,000,000 to National Museum of African American History and Culture
Microsoft Corp. has just announced a donation of $1 million to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens this fall, WTOP reports. The museum, set to open its doors Sept. 24, will launch with 11 inaugural exhibitions covering major periods of African-American history and culture, from the Harlem Renaissance to…
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After Violent Attack, India Must Address Anti-Black Racism
The Indian census has not included “race” as a category since the early 1950s. Race might be a “biological fiction” according to geneticists, but the world over, it is a social reality. Racism is a topic Indians have been discussing fervently following the reprehensible attack on a Tanzanian woman by a mob that beat and…
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Clinton? Trump? How About Neither? It’s Time to Blow the Whistle on Presidential Politics
The peculiar American sport that is the national election is back in season: Republicans vs. Democrats. Red states vs. blue states. Donald Trump fanatics attacking protesters as if bigotry will yield them better yardage on the field of economic opportunity. Hillary Clinton doing the Nae-Nae as if she scored a touchdown for the young folk…
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