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  • Elizabeth Warren Scolds President Obama for Being Weak on Wall Street

    Elizabeth Warren took it straight to President Barack Obama and his administration for being soft on enforcement against big corporations and white-collar crime in a New York Times op-ed Friday.  In the piece entitled “One Way to Rebuild Our Institutions,” Warren concedes that the Obama administration has a strong track record in using executive actions…

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  • Ky. Detention Staff Used Aikido on 16-Year-Old Hours Before Her Mysterious Death

    A 16-year-old girl at an Elizabethtown, Ky., juvenile-detention facility was restrained with a martial arts move for refusing to remove her sweatshirt during booking. The otherwise healthy teen was found dead in her cell the next morning. According to WDRB, Gynnya McMillen was booked at about 2 a.m. on Jan. 10 for a domestic-violence-related offense…

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  • Lil’ Kim Tweeted the Haters Who She Said Photoshopped Her Butt to Appear Fake and Mangled

    Lil’ Kim has long been the subject of “before” and “after” photos used by people who slam excessive plastic surgery—especially when it’s abused by celebrities who most people agree were once super cute. And Kim’s retort, from time to time, is that a lot of those “after” photos are altered. She hopped on Twitter Thursday…

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  • Is Will Smith on His ‘New Black’ Ish Again? Says #OscarsSoWhite ‘Is Not a Civil Rights Issue’

    This is hard for me, because I love Will Smith. But Smith—like most new wave, #NewBlack people (in other words, black people who came into money and have been rich for such a long time that they rarely ever see the racism in things)—seems to be very hesitant to admit that an issue or barrier…

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  • Stacey Dash Says Blacks Are Being Bamboozled by Liberals Into Limiting Black History to 1 Month

    Stacey Dash is still talking. She took to her blog to further explain her recent comments about Black History Month and why she thinks the commemoration ought to be canceled. “I’m not saying we as black people deserve LESS respect. I’m saying we deserve MORE,” she wrote. “Black History should be apart [sic] of social…

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  • Was My Grandma the Daughter of Her Mother’s White Employer?

    I would like to know where my paternal grandmother, Mariah Green (also spelled Maria or Marie; maiden name unknown), is buried, as well as who her parents were. She was born circa 1888 in Bastrop County, Texas. My father is her son, Floyd Green. According to family oral history, she was the daughter of Yager…

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  • Why We Need More Films About Slavery

    I was prepared to dislike Kara Brown’s Jezebel article, “I’m So Damn Tired of Slave Movies,” based on the title alone. That sentiment has been popular lately, given all the attention garnered at the Sundance Film Festival for actor-turned-director-producer-screenwriter Nate Parker’s upcoming film, The Birth of a Nation. Reports from Utah say the movie—a biography…

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  • President Obama on #OscarsSoWhite Debate: Hollywood Storytelling Should Reflect Makeup of Country

    The leader of the free world weighed in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that has dominated news headlines and has a few prominent black celebrities boycotting this year’s Academy Awards. During an interview with Los Angeles’ ABC7 Wednesday, President Obama agreed that the television and film industries should be more conscious about telling everyone’s story and,…

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  • Concussion Doctor Suspects That O.J. Simpson Has CTE Brain Disease

    Unfortunately, O.J. Simpson would have to die in order to test this hypothesis: Dr. Bennet Omalu—the Nigerian doctor who inspired the movie Concussion by discovering chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a debilitating brain disease sometimes found in football players—suspects that the NFL Hall of Famer has CTE. “I would bet my medical license that he…

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  • Come on, Ma. Can’t You Stop Wearing That Mink?

    Aliya’s turn: I wish I could get my mom to stop supporting the fur and diamond trades. She knows the horrors that go into both industries but still refuses to stop buying fur coats and diamond jewelry. Now, I remember the first time my mom bought a fur coat. I remember how luxurious the coat…

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