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  • Do Republicans Really Want the Black and Latino Vote?

    “Get him the hell out of here,” said Donald Trump. Later, Trump’s supporters shouted, “Go home, n—ger.” That’s the claim by Mercutio Southall, co-founder of the Birmingham, Ala., chapter of Black Lives Matter. Video footage of the incident, which has gone viral, shows white Trump supporters shoving, punching and kicking the black activist in response…

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  • ‘Not Giving Me My Props Doesn’t Stop Me From Being Great’: Nicki Minaj Claps Back at Critics

    Nicki Minaj shut down a Twitter user on Friday who credited her booty for her success.  People magazine writes that the spat started after a gossip site noted the dearth of female rappers on Twitter and then retweeted a user’s comment: “Yep, men are visual creatures they don’t care if you can sing … That’s why Nicki…

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  • This Happened When Giants Star Odell Beckham Handed Out Beats Headphones to Teammates

    Was it another teammate’s greed that prompted New York Giants’ Damontre Moore to tackle him during an otherwise festive occasion? Or did Moore see the writing on the wall? Whatever the reason, Moore, a defensive end, was released by the team Friday after getting into a fight with defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins on Thursday over…

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  • Ted Cruz Is New Iowa GOP Presidential Front-Runner

    Republican presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has blown past Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the critical primary state of Iowa to reach the coveted top spot, according to new poll results released Saturday. A new Bloomberg Politics/DesMoines Register poll shows that Cruz is favored by 31 percent of those likely to attend the Iowa…

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  • University of Alabama’s Derrick Henry Wins Heisman

    Roll tide! So goes the rallying calling for the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide athletic teams. Derrick Henry, the school’s 6-foot-3-inch, 242-pound running back, won the Heisman Trophy Saturday night, reports the Associated Press. “I’m just so thankful to have this trophy,” Henry said, according to the news outlet. “It’s just a blessing and an…

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  • Black in the USSR: 3 Generations of a Russian Family

    In 1932, the poet Langston Hughes spent Christmas in the “dusty, coloured, cotton-growing South” of Uzbekistan, then one of the Soviet Union’s Asian republics. Hughes had been in Moscow, working on a film critical of American race relations, but the project was abandoned, in part because the Soviets were then seeking official diplomatic recognition and improved…

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  • Russian Supermarket Apologizes for Selling Cutting Board With Racist Image of Obama 

    The Bakhetle supermarket in Moscow issued an apology Thursday saying it was unaware that President Barack Obama’s image was superimposed over a monkey’s face on a cutting board, according to Agence France-Presse. The apology came after protests from the U.S. Embassy over the offensive cutting board that had an image of a family of monkeys,…

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  • Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against Black Renters, Study Says

    A working paper (pdf) from Harvard Business School released Wednesday found “widespread discrimination” by hosts against people with black-sounding names seeking home rentals, reports the New York Times. The Times writes that fictional guests set up by three researchers “with names like Lakisha or Rasheed were roughly 16 percent less likely to be accepted than identical…

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  • ‘Are You Going to Shoot Me?’: Rape Victims Speak Out About Convicted Ex-Okla. Cop

    After a jury found a former Oklahoma City police officer guilty of multiple charges of raping black women, two of those women spoke out about the pain and suffering they endured at the hands of a man who was supposed to protect them from criminals. Instead, he was the very man from whom they needed…

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  • Al Sharpton to Call on Supreme Court Justice to Recuse Himself After Racially Insensitive Remarks

    The Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday will call on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse himself from ‪Fisher v. University of Texas after he argued that blacks should attend slower-track schools, where they perform better. The longtime civil rights leader is scheduled to make the call Saturday during a rally at his National…

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