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Black Art Lovers, London Is the Place to Be Right Now
To coincide with both Black History Month in the United Kingdom and the internationally renowned Frieze art fair, there are a staggering seven exhibitions by black artists—plus a historical-archive showcase presenting formerly unseen photographs of black people in Victorian Britain—currently showing in London. Previously unthinkable in what was once a notoriously conservative, painfully homogeneous and…
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Cornel West’s New Book, Black Prophetic Fire, Drives Home His Critique of Obama
Cornel West is back. And with his newest book, Black Prophetic Fire: In Dialogue With and Edited by Christa Buschendorf—a series of conversations about the exemplars of the black prophetic tradition against racial and economic injustice—West reminds us why he remains one of the best-known, most controversial and most important public intellectuals of our time.…
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Chicago Activists ‘Charge Genocide’
In the aftermath of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of police, a group of Chicago-based activists have come together to raise awareness against police brutality. Their findings were released Wednesday in a report titled “Police Violence Against Chicago’s Youth of Color,” according to DNAinfo Chicago. For years Chicago has…
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We Create More Jobs When Black-Women-Owned Businesses Succeed
Each month I discuss the monthly U.S. Department of Labor jobs report on CNBC’s Power Lunch, and the findings are often bittersweet. Economists generally feel that our country is making progress. In fact, this summer, unemployment reached its lowest rate in six years—hovering close to 6 percent. Yet somehow, this improving trend continues to leave…
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United Nations: Detroit Water Shutoffs Violate Human Rights
There’s a new player in Detroit who wants to bring attention to how the city has shut off the running water in thousands of homes because residents have been unable to pay their water bill. The water shutoff caused an outcry earlier this year from folks who believe the city’s response was severe and inhumane. Now the United…
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Hispanic Voters: GOP Candidates Running for House Seats Don’t Need You
With all the talk about how Hispanics will be the majority ethnic group in the U.S. in the near future, and all the studies that have, as a result, examined the political and economic power that they will wield, it’s surprising to hear that Republican candidates running for congressional seats don’t need a single Latino vote to be victorious in…
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Now the NAACP and Family Lawyers Are Looking Into Lennon Lacy’s Hanging Death
On Monday night, lawyers Al McSurely and Allen Rogers met with Claudia Lacy and Larry Walton to discuss the next step in the investigation into what McSurely called “the probable murder” of Lacy and Walton’s 17-year-old son, Lennon Lacy. While the parents of boys like Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis waged uphill battles hoping to…
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Black Woman Behind Wasabi-Ginger Potato Chips Takes Home Grand Prize
Meneko Spigner McBeth’s bank account is about to have quite a few additional zeros. On Monday night, Frito-Lay announced that McBeth, a registered nurse, was the winner of its “Do Us a Flavor” contest to create a new potato chip flavor, reports NBC4 New York. McBeth’s winning idea for wasabi-ginger chips beat out entries for cappuccino,…
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Americans Aren’t Really Donating Money to the Ebola Outbreak
With all the ice buckets that got thrown over heads this past summer to raise money for Lou Gehrig’s disease (also called ALS), you’d think people would have that same zeal to fight a more immediate humanitarian crisis like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but the New York Times is reporting that donations for Ebola from…
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Some Rich, White People in Baton Rouge, La., Want to Form Their Own Town
The rich, white folk who live in Baton Rouge, La., want to secede and form their own town called St. George. Or at least that’s how their critics are articulating the initiative, the BBC reports. The secession, of sorts, is being sold as a well-intentioned plan that will allow St. George’s hypothetical residents to gain more…
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