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George Lucas Explains and Apologizes for Referring to Disney as ‘White Slavers’
George Lucas is backpedaling away from remarks he made during a recent interview in which he referred to Disney movie studios as “white slavers,” USA Today reports. Lucas—the creator of and mastermind behind the Star Wars franchise—sold the franchise to Disney for a little over $4 billion in 2012. In an interview with Charlie Rose that…
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TCU Quarterback to Miss Bowl Game After Arrest for Bar Fight
Texas Christian University quarterback Trevone Boykin was arrested and charged with a felony early Thursday morning after allegedly hitting a bicycle patrol officer after a bar fight, according to ESPN. Boykin was formally charged with a third-degree felony, posted a $5,000 bond and was released from custody late Thursday morning. The quarterback, along with wide receiver Preston Miller,…
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Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Dead at 80
Renowned psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, author of the seminal 1991 work The Isis (Yssis) Papers: The Keys to the Colors (Third World Press), has died. She was 80 years old. “Media Assassin” Harry Allen reported via Twitter that Welsing died at 5:30 a.m. Saturday from a stroke she suffered earlier in the week. Welsing was…
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Kanye West Drops Surprise New Year’s Eve Track Dissing Bill Cosby
Kanye West, never one to shy away from controversy, dropped a new single on the last day of 2015, getting all up in Bill Cosby’s, Nike’s and Drake’s pudding. West, the father of 2-year-old North West, took it to the Coz on “Facts,” a track that has been burning up social media since Friday, when…
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Philadelphia Mummers Parade Marred by Brownface, Anti-Gay Slurs
Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade hit the scene once again on Friday and was yet again mired in a series of racist and homophobic acts along the parade route, including the assault of a gay man, according to reports. The 116-year-old folk festival, considered the oldest in the United States, was created by Scandanavian, European and,…
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When White Girls Get Black Dolls for Christmas, Watch a Cycle of Bias Begin
Tamir Rice’s tragic death has exposed painful assumptions that seem hard-wired into the (white) American psyche about black children. The video sequence of Tamir’s killing has been read in a variety of ways. About what could be seen in the video, a Cleveland prosecutor said, “Tamir was big for his age—5 foot 7 and 175 pounds,…
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My Ancestor’s Name and Race Changed in Census Records. Why?
I recently discovered that I have an ancestor listed as “mulatto” on the 1850 and 1860 census records. Her name is Amelia “Millie/Milly” A. Moreland, born in 1818 in Virginia. She is listed as living with William White Mullin and three children, Richard Winfield Scott Moreland, Anna R.C. Moreland and Mary J.V. Moreland—all children also…
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New York Knicks Guard Cleanthony Early Was Robbed and Shot in the Knee by Assailants
New York Knicks guard Cleanthony Early hopped into an Uber car early Wednesday morning after leaving a strip club in Queens, N.Y. Soon after, three cars boxed his car in and assailants came out and robbed him for his gold necklace and gold caps on his teeth, TMZ reports. The assailants shot Early once in the knee…
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Watch: T.I. Walked Into 2 Ga. Wal-Marts on Christmas Eve and Picked Up the Tab for Single Mothers
“All the single mamas, raise your hand.” That’s how T.I. walked into an Atlanta Wal-Mart on Christmas Eve because he planned to pay the tabs of “unexpected Christmas shoppers,” he said in a video posted on YouTube. But T.I. didn’t just pay the women’s current tabs. He walked from register to register and asked several…
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Photo of the Day: It Runs in the Family; Michael ‘Bae’ Jordan’s Male Relatives Are Fine, Too
Now we see where Michael B. Jordan (who will forever be known as Wallace from The Wire) gets it from. Jordan posted a photo of himself and some of the men in his family on Instagram, and boy, does it have the ladies swooning on social media. Every single man in the photo—from the O.G.s…
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