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Read Melissa Harris-Perry’s No-Holds-Barred Tweets Ethering Her Old Employer MSNBC
When the clock struck 5 p.m. Tuesday, negotiations between Melissa Harris-Perry and MSNBC—the cable network that used to air her eponymous show—seemed to come to a screeching halt. Harris-Perry took to Twitter to tweet as much and then went on to open up in a defiant and zero-f—ks-given way about how her show was treated…
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The People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: Johnnie Cochran Gets Inside Christopher Darden’s Head
Johnnie Cochran is driving his daughters to dinner when he’s pulled over by a motorcycle cop for failure to signal while changing lanes, aka driving a Benz while black. Cochran says it’s the third time this week he’s been pulled over and suggests that the officer call in his license before things escalate. Because of his…
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After More Than a Century, Madam C.J. Walker’s Hair Products Are Back
Madam C.J. Walker would be smiling if she were alive today. The nation’s first female, self-made millionaire made her fortune selling beauty and hair products she’d developed to African-American women, beginning in the early 1900s. Now a new line of products—Madam C.J. Walker Beauty Culture—is bringing her legacy to a new generation. “I’m very excited,”…
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Nina, Starring Zoe Saldana, Finally Has a Release Date, and Folks Are None Too Happy
After lots of hemming and hawing, fits and starts, it looks as if that Nina Simone biopic starring Zoe Saldana is coming out, and black Twitter is not having it. On Tuesday the movie poster was released, and tweets ranged from some that just said “no” repeatedly to others that consisted of virtual head shaking…
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Congressional Republicans Vote Against Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou
On Tuesday, when Congress took on the rather routine task of naming a post office after icon, writer, activist and poet Maya Angelou, nine members saw fit to vote against the mostly symbolic measure. Mind you, this is a woman who already has a postage stamp with her likeness on it. NBC News reports that…
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J.J. Reddick Says He’s Sick of the ‘White Duke Villain Myth,’ but He Should Consider This Angle
During a podcast, J.J. Reddick—the white Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard from Virginia who was once the face of Duke basketball during his successful tenure with the program in the early 2000s—said that he’s sick of the media perpetuating the “white Duke villain myth.” “I think it’s fine for an opposing fan base to choose a player…
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Darrell Wallace Jr. Continues to Pave New Roads in NASCAR
For many, NASCAR is not a sport “for us.” But that stigma is slowly changing, especially with Darrell Wallace Jr. in the game. Wallace, affectionately known as “Bubba” to family and friends, made history in 2013 when he became the second African American in history to win a NASCAR national series (the first was Wendell…
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Symone Sanders Differs From Bernie Sanders in Almost Every Way—Except in Name and Politics
Symone D. Sanders skips states like rocks across a river. In a recent week, the 25-year-old national press secretary for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spent a day in New Hampshire, the next day in New York, and then it was off to Wisconsin and then on to South Carolina. After that it was Atlanta,…
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Model Ajak Deng Recants Her Retirement, Says She’ll Fight Colorism War for ‘Black Girls Like Me’
Fashion model Ajak Deng has decided that she’s going to continue on with her career in order to fight a battle that she deems worthy of pursuing. It’s the battle about diversity in the fashion industry—more specifically, combating the European beauty standards that darker-complexion models like herself go up against every time they audition…
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Watch: Ciara Visits Students in Nigeria and Masters the Country’s Dances During Her Show
Ciara was in Nigeria this past weekend for a show but made it a point to visit students at a local school, too. She posted video to Instagram of her reciting an empowering message with the students about accomplishing the dreams people have for their lives. Another student sang to Ciara. Ciara mentioned that the…
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