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Ferguson’s Marchers Have Shown Us That We’re Not Done Marching
I thought marches were done. Over the past 20 years, most of the marches that we’ve seen, big and small, have seemed more like stagecraft than the true reflection of a current struggle. The urgency that characterized historic civil rights marches seemed to have gone away and been replaced by careful scheduling and marketing—like last…
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Trump Agency Accused of Bilking Model Out of Salary
A model has filed a federal lawsuit against Trump Model Management, charging that she was promised an annual salary of $75,000 but received only $3,380.75 for 21 jobs over three years, New York’s Daily News reports. In the suit, a proposed class action, Alexia Palmer alleges that between January 2011 and December 2013, the agency…
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Why President Obama’s Credit Card Was Declined
When President Barack Obama’s credit card was declined at a fancy restaurant in New York City last month, the first lady had him covered. But CNN reports that bad credit was not the issue. The card was likely declined to prevent identity theft. The president told the story Friday while speaking to workers at the…
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Supreme Court Upholds New Texas Voter-ID Law
The Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favor of a controversial new voter-identification law in Texas, which can be used for the November election, the Associated Press reports. The order came after a majority of the justices rejected an emergency request from the Justice Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring…
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Report: Darren Wilson Feared for His Life
Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department says he was in fear for his life in August when he shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown, the New York Times reports. The shooting sparked continuing protests over police violence against minorities, especially unarmed black men. Wilson’s testimony to federal investigators, shared by officials…
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Dear White People Skewers College Life as a ‘Black Face in a White Place’
After years of writing, publicizing, crowdfunding and screening his smart-house film to packed film-festival audiences, Justin Simien is finally seeing Dear White People, his send-up of the pitfalls of black-student life at a mostly white college, released in mainstream cinemas today. And having had the opportunity to see the film on the festival circuit before it won…
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How to Get Away With Murder Recap: 9 Words, 2 Eyelashes and 1 Wig
How to Get Away With Murder’s much-touted “9 Words” teaser from last week was nearly eclipsed at the end of Thursday night’s episode by the wig drop heard the world over: the scene where Annalise Keating bared all by taking off the mixed-reviewed, chestnut-hued wig, along with her faux eyelashes. The move was quickly followed…
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Black Ohio Newspaper Endorses Republican Governor for Re-Election
As conventional (and political) wisdom goes, black Americans, on average, typically vote for Democrats, and so when the Call & Post, a Cleveland newspaper that targets African-American readers, endorsed Ohio’s Republican governor for re-election on Tuesday, it represented a slight change of course in the stream of racial politics. Although it’s not the first time…
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Obama: National Guard, Be Ready to Go if West Africa Needs You
When the World Health Organization made clear the severity of the Ebola crisis, President Barack Obama sprang into action and committed a significant number of health care workers and military to the region—approximately 4,000 troops. Now that the virus has reached American shores and people are calling on the government to do more, the president told…
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My Ancestor’s Tragedy Made the Papers. What Happened Next?
I am trying to determine where Willie Wise Hargrove, the wife of my great-granduncle, died and is buried. In 1910 Willie Wise was living in Charlotte, N.C., with her husband, Shedrick Hargrove. In June of that year he died. The death certificate indicated, “Suicide reported to be.” I researched the local papers, suspecting that the…
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