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11-Year-Old Scores Higher Than Einstein on Mensa IQ Test
An 11-year-old black boy from the United Kingdom is smarter than Albert Einstein. Just let that sink in for a minute. The proof is in a Mensa test that Ramarni Wilfred took earlier this year. The results of the test revealed that Ramarni has an IQ that is higher than Stephen Hawking’s, Bill Gates’ and…
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Former Black Panther and 1984 Plane Hijacker Sentenced to 20 Years
Former Black Panther Party member William Potts Jr. has already spent 13 years in a Cuban prison, described by his lawyer Robert Berube as “one of the worst hellholes on the planet,” for hijacking and diverting a New York Piedmont Airlines flight to Havana in 1984, Reuters reports. “There were no bathroom facilities. There were…
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NJ Apprentice Settles for $34,000 in Racial-Discrimination Claim
Imagine that you’ve nearly completed the requirements of your four-year—that’s eight terms—apprenticeship program, and with two weeks to go before graduation and promotion to journeyman status, you’re expelled. This happened to a black apprentice attending a school affiliated with the Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee of Sheet Metal Workers Local 25, which represents sheet metal…
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This NYC Firefighter Is the 1st Woman of FDNY Calendar of Heroes
Danae Mines, one of 41 women in the New York City Fire Department, just made history as the first to grace the pages of the FDNY Calendar of Heroes that famously features bare-chested firemen, reports the New York Daily News. The 11-year veteran of Engine Co. 60 in the South Bronx, N.Y., is Miss March. Mines,…
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My Man’s Ex Won’t Stop Hanging Out With His Mom
My boyfriend’s ex is still close with his mother. She even calls her “Mom.” They have been broken up for over a year, and he says they no longer communicate. Am I wrong for wanting this relationship to stop? It is awkward at family functions when both of us are around. —Anonymous You are not…
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My 1st Same-Sex Wedding Was Just a Perfect Wedding
I love weddings. And one of the best weddings I’ve ever attended took place last week in Brooklyn, N.Y. The whole evening was a perfect blend of elegance and casualness. Rose petals were strewn about a wooden deck, and a Juilliard-trained musician bowed her violin as 100 well-dressed guests sat underneath the setting sun, sipping…
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Is There Value to Beyoncé’s Brand of Popular Feminism?
“I think Olivia Pope is the bomb. And if that’s the way we’re going to get it, then we need to get it.” “It,” according to Alexis De Veaux, is black feminism. The retired professor of women’s studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo, says she does not question the legitimacy of popular…
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Am I Related to the 1st Black NY Yankee?
There is a legend in my family that we are related to Elston Howard, the first African American to play for the New York Yankees. Proving this is difficult, and needless to say I have hit a huge wall. Elston’s bio says he was born in 1929 in St. Louis and died in 1980 in…
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Girl Abandoned on a Doorstep Off to College 18 Years Later
Sara Gibbs was a single woman, working long hours as a nurse, when she made a decision that would change her life. Gibbs never thought she would be a mother, but after an infant girl was left on the doorstep of a nearby doctor’s office, she made the decision to take the child in. She’s…
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If AFSCME Breaks With Black Colleges Over Koch Money, It’s Not Being Principled, It’s Grandstanding
Let’s say, hypothetically, that a charity that serves veterans, based in my home state of Texas—where 23 percent of folks polled believe that President Barack Obama is Muslim—accepts a sizable donation from the Obama family. But after the Obamas’ donation becomes public, the charity winds up losing significant financial support from some of its conservative…
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