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US to Pay $554M to the Navajo Nation
It’s not quite reparations, but the U.S. government has agreed to pay the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the country, $554 million as part of a settlement stemming from 50-year-old claims in a lawsuit, the BBC is reporting. The Navajo Nation leases approximately 14 million acres of its land to the U.S. government…
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2 Children Dead in Unlicensed Day Care Fire
Two children—a 9-month-old baby and a 21-month-old toddler—died from injuries they suffered in a fire at a house in Lynchburg, Va., that was being used to operate an unlicensed day care center, the News & Advance reports. At the time of last Friday’s fire, seven children were in the care of Doris Lee, who operated…
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The Hair ‘Down There’: How to Ask a Woman to ‘Trim the Hedges’
Is it polite for a man to ask a lady to trim herself “down there”? She really likes me to give her oral, but it’s difficult with so much growth. I’ve hinted about it, but she never seems to get it, and I’m considering the direct approach. Just don’t want to offend her, but I…
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Viola Davis’ Debut in How to Get Away With Murder Stuns in Satisfying ShondaLand Fashion
Swathed in a sexy, brick red, butter-leather jacket and dangling earrings, with a dash of cleave and coiffed in a short haircut borrowed from the files and styles of RiRi—clearly appropriate for after-5 shenanigans—Viola Davis is worlds away from the more modest stylings of such roles as Aibileen in The Help and even the early parts of her portrayal…
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First Lady: Don’t Forget What Obama Has Meant for Race and Same-Sex Marriage
The chatter about President Barack Obama’s legacy has already begun, and Michelle Obama is leading the charge, offering a glimpse into just how proud she is of what her husband has accomplished thus far as president. “[J]ust think about how different our country looks to children growing up today,” the first lady said in a…
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Obama Gave Marine Guards a Coffee-Handed Salute and It Pissed Off His Haters
For most Americans, the morning coffee is inarguably one of the most important beverages of the day. And yet when President Barack Obama stepped off the presidential helicopter on Tuesday clutching a coffee cup and gave a few Marine guards a coffee-handed salute as a result, the gesture angered a few of his most loyal…
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Here’s Some History Behind That ‘Angry Black Woman’ Riff the NY Times Tossed Around
If you’re a devoted Scandal watcher, by now you’ve read, or at least heard, about the New York Times’ Alessandra Stanley and her painfully off-key review of Shonda Rhimes’ television oeuvre, which, mercifully, has been roundly blasted by The Root’s Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele, Vulture’s Margaret Lyons and many, many others. Even as Stanley and the Times…
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Prime-Time TV Inches Closer to Living Color
The title alone was enough to set some people on edge. But the producers of ABC’s Black-ish have spent a lot of time assuring potential viewers that the show isn’t just a collection of jokes about an upper-middle-class family. Instead, the sitcom about a black, upper-middle-class dad (Anthony Anderson) who fears that his kids…
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100 Years Later, a New Black Film Emerges
Recently discovered reels from a 1913 film have become the oldest-known footage of a movie featuring a black cast, reports the New York Times. Found in the film archives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the untitled silent film depicts middle-class black life in the early-Jim Crow era. The footage found…
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ABC’s New Black-ish Strives to Keep It Real While Keeping It Funny
If 2013 was all about “cultural appropriation”—the Grammys, Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” Billboard’s color vacancy, that damn twerk—then 2014 might just be all about “policing” bodies, respectability … and blackness. Everywhere you look, there are guidelines being open-source administered by all but unfortunately adhered to only by few. So maybe it makes sense that this would be…
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