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  • Cuba Gooding Jr. Will Play O.J. Simpson in a New TV Series About the Murder Trial 

    American audiences will get to relive the O.J. Simpson murder trial through a new television series that is set to premiere on FX in 2015. Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. will play the NFL icon who fell from grace after being accused and tried in 1995 on charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole…

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  • Congressional Staffers Stage Walkout to Protest Police Killings

    Activism is contagious. Just one day after medical-school students across the nation staged die-ins as a way to bring attention to institutional racism in health care, congressional staffers on Capitol Hill walked out of their offices Thursday afternoon to protest the lack of indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner killings by police officers.…

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  • 2014’s Most Popular Twitter Hashtags 

    Black Twitter was a force to be reckoned with in 2014. We saw the calling out and subsequent firing of people who posted racist tweets, as well as meaningful calls to action in which social activists created viral campaigns that brought attention to issues and incidents that captured global headlines. First lady Michelle Obama joined…

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  • Was My Ancestor a Free Person of Color?  

    This answer was provided in consultation with Meaghan E.H. Siekman, a researcher from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Founded in 1845, NEHGS is the country’s leading nonprofit resource for family history research. Its website, AmericanAncestors.org, contains more than 300 million searchable records for research in New England, New York and beyond. With the leading experts…

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  • If You’re Withholding Sex to Make Your Man Stay Faithful, You Need to Let Him Go 

    You’re never wrong for refusing to have sex with a man you don’t trust and who may be cheating on you. That’s not being selfish. It’s being smart. But it’s also not being celibate as much as it is a woman trying to make her man act right and stop creeping. If he did as…

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  • Medical School Students Across the Nation Stage Die-In's to Denounce Racial Biases in Healthcare 

    Medical school students across the nation put on their white coats on Wednesday and staged die-in’s as a way to protest the recent killings of unarmed black men by law-enforcement, Al Jazeera reports. “Participants say the same structural racism that results in police brutality against blacks manifests itself in the health care system, leading to poorer health, shorter…

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  • Medical-School Students Stage Die-Ins to Denounce Racial Biases in Health Care 

    Medical-school students across the nation put on their white coats Wednesday and staged die-ins as a way to protest the recent killings of unarmed black men by law enforcement and the racial biases that also exist in health care, Al-Jazeera reports. “Participants say the same structural racism that results in police brutality against blacks manifests itself in the…

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  • Census Projection: White Americans Will Be Minorities in 2045

    The U.S. Census Bureau just announced its latest round of projections regarding the U.S. population and revealed that by the year 2045, black and Hispanic Americans will likely be in the majority, Al-Jazeera reports. “The non-Hispanic white population is barely growing, and today’s projections show that it will start to decline after 2025,” the news site explained,…

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  • 11 Gift Ideas for Fashionable, Fabulous Women

    Searching for the perfect gift during the holidays can be a drag. With so many options, it can be hard to make a choice. That’s where we come in. Whether you’re shopping for your girlfriend or your grandmother, we have some Christmas and Kwanzaa gift ideas for the women on your holiday gift list. 1.…

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  • Obama Gets Coding Lesson From Middle School Student

    President Barack Obama took JavaScript coding lessons from an African-American middle school student at the White House Monday. “Slow down, because I’m an old man,” the president joked with his tutor. The event was part of Computer Science Education Week at the White House, where Obama was hoping to shed light on the back-end technology…

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