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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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200 of Silicon Valley’s Diverse Executives and Influencers Meet to Highlight Inclusion-Driven Innovation
Culture Shift Labs, founded by Andrea Hoffman, an authority on inclusion-driven innovation, collaborated with Denmark West, a partner at Connectivity Capital Partners, to bring together 200 senior executives, venture capitalists, innovators and accomplished entrepreneurs of color in California’s Silicon Valley for two days of collaborating, deal making and fostering of game-changing growth. With Google as…
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Motherwit: Onnie Lee Logan’s 4 Decades as a Midwife in Ala.
One March day in 1984, Onnie Lee Logan received a letter from the Mobile, Ala., County Board of Health, telling her that her services were no longer required and that her license to practice as a midwife was revoked with immediate effect. The letter thanked her for her 38 years of faithful service to the…
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Watch: NYC Police Officers Bind Man’s Hands and Feet, Throw Him in Body Bag
In a disturbing video made public this week, New York City police officers are shown physically restraining a man by placing him in a head-to-toe enclosed body bag. The video, uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, shows an African-American man with his hands, feet and legs bound, lying facedown on the ground near a subway station…
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Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy of A Different World Reunite On-Screen
These days, the throwback is de rigueur on television, and it’s no different with the Disney Channel’s K.C. Undercover, which will soon reunite A Different World’s Dwayne Wayne with his paramour Whitley Gilbert, according to TVLine.com. K.C. Undercover, now in its second season, stars the darling Zendaya as K.C. Cooper, a high school student training to follow…
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Watch: Don Lemon Goes Off on Omarosa for Skirting Donald Trump Question
CNN anchor Don Lemon, never one to back down from controversy or a good confrontation, was in top form Friday as he mixed it up with former The Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault over Donald Trump—or, more precisely, the fact that Omarosa chose not to directly answer a question about Trump’s tweet about Republican presidential candidate…
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Bernie Sanders Takes Wash., Hawaii, Alaska
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders trounced Hillary Clinton in three Democratic presidential contests this Saturday, the New York Times confirms. Former Secretary of State Clinton still maintains a decent delegate lead over the senator, but Sanders is still very much alive in the race, with the contests giving his campaign the momentum and funds necessary to continue…
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An Opera for a Jazz Virtuoso: The Apollo Theater Honors Charlie Parker
The rich, buttery tenor of Lawrence Brownlee soars as if it’s on wings in the opening aria “Birdland.” He is channeling bebop genius Charlie Parker, whose life is at the center of the opera Charlie Parker’s Yardbird—co-produced by the Apollo Theater and Opera Philadelphia. It is set in New York City’s iconic Birdland jazz club…
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Tyler Perry Slams Ga. Anti-Gay Bill
Tyler Perry is the latest in a throng of celebrity and media voices to condemn Georgia’s recent anti-gay bill. In a statement released Friday, the media mogul and actor’s TP Studios called on the state’s governor to veto it. A spokesperson for the company—whose 200,000-square-foot complex is in Atlanta—encouraged Republican Gov. Nathan Deal to reject a…
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