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  • Whining About Dating When a Man Is Right Under Your Nose

    A man I’m seeing for just a few weeks told me to “just pick me” when I was talking about the difficulty of dating for educated black women. I’m confused because the fact that I was talking to him means I want him to pick me. I’m not sure what else I need to do…

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  • Mother and Daughter Crusade for Prevention of Gynecological Cancers

    For Nneka and Mary “Dicey” Scroggins, advocacy is a family affair. The mother-daughter duo from Washington, D.C., have turned Dicey Scroggins’ personal cancer journey into a global crusade of awareness about women’s cancer detection in underserved communities around the world. For two years in the mid-’90s, Dicey Scroggins, now 63, experienced unusual abdominal bloating, weight…

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  • Watch Bill O’Reilly Get Schooled by Jon Stewart on White Privilege  

    Jon Stewart forced conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly to admit that white privilege exists. O’Reilly has long refused to acknowledge that white people experience any advantages because of their race. While Stewart got O’Reilly to admit to the existence of white privilege, O’Reilly stopped short of admitting that black Americans are disadvantaged in any way. At…

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  • Yale Student Hospitalized With Ebola-Like Symptoms

    A graduate student in Yale University’s public health program has been admitted to a New Haven, Conn., hospital with Ebola-like symptoms, according to the Hartford Courant. A letter released by school officials and sent to Yale community members stated, “There is no indication at this time that the student has contracted the Ebola virus.” The…

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  • Officer Involved in Shooting of Unarmed, Sleeping Milwaukee Man Is Fired 

    Earlier this year, Milwaukee resident Dontre Hamilton was sleeping on a park bench when police Officer Christopher Manney, who had received a call asking that he make sure the man was all right, approached Hamilton and began to pat him down. According to police officials, a scuffle ensued and Manney drew his weapon and shot…

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  • UK Experts: Hip-Hop Can Be Used to Treat Mental Illness

    Once on the fringe, hip-hop culture is now popular culture and is being taught and studied at some of the most selective universities around the world. Researchers at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom believe that the genre can be used to help treat some mental illnesses. Becky Inkster, a neuroscientist in Cambridge University’s department…

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  • 40,000 Voter-Registration Applications Submitted by Blacks and Hispanics Disappear in Ga.

    Editor’s note: According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,​ Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp claimed that nearly 40,000 voter-registration applications in Georgia that were supposedly unaccounted for have been found and processed, and those applicants are now registered to vote. Kemp also said on Thursday that another 10,000 or so applications need more information about the identities of the applicants before they are cleared.…

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  • A Different World: Why My Predominantly White College Wasn’t Right for Me  

    Editor’s note: In honor of the movie Dear White People, a satirical drama about race and culture at a fictional Ivy League college, we decided to ask two black students to explain why they love or hate their experiences at a predominantly white institution of higher learning. Read part 1 here. Dear White People opens Friday. “The blacks, whether originally…

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  • Michelle Obama Says, ‘Turnip for What?’

    Michelle Obama proved that she is much cooler than your average first lady while participating in a Twitter Q&A about her healthy-lifestyle initiative. In a #AskTheFirstLady Twitter chat, Barack Obama impersonator Iman Crosson posed this question: “How many calories do you burn every time you ‘turn up’?” https://twitter.com/Alphacat/status/522072769325182976 Making a play on the popular DJ…

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  • 10 Random Thoughts About Last Night’s Very Entertaining BET Hip Hop Awards

    Lions and tigers and flex zones. Oh my. The BET Hip Hop Awards, aka “the one with the cyphers,” aired Tuesday night in all their budgeted glory. And for the unimaginative among us, this was that coveted time of the year to hop on the Innanets to self-importantly side-eye BET’s shortcomings. But I do it for…

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