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Youngest Son of Mich. Rep. John Conyers Goes Missing
Carl Conyers, 21, was last seen Tuesday afternoon by his roommate at the University of Houston, according to the New York Daily News. Conyers is the youngest son of Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), 87, who represents Michigan’s 13th Congressional District. The younger Conyers apparently sent his girlfriend and several friends a message on Twitter on Wednesday…
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What Pain Has to Teach in the Advent of a Trump Presidency
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.” —Audre Lorde I’ll never forget Valentine’s Day my sophomore year in high school. My social status had been uplifted from chubby black kid to chubby black kid who does sports. And with my freshly…
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DC-Area Schools Walk Out of Class in Protest of Trump
One week after the presidential election, students from Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in Washington, D.C., walked out of class in protest of Donald Trump, CBS DC reports. Students from many other schools followed, and the protest went on to Trump’s D.C. hotel and the Capitol on Tuesday. The principal of Wilson, Kimberly Martin, sent…
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Fliers Saying ‘White Women Shouldn’t Date Black Men’ Appear on SMU Campus
The latest college campus under scrutiny for alleged racist actions is Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where fliers have been put up warning white women not to date black men, the Huffington Post reports. The fliers, found in a dorm and the science building on campus, are titled, “Why White Women Shouldn’t Date Black Men.” “SMU…
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Atlanta Man Gunned Down After Joking About Voting for Trump
Mitchell Mormon Jr., 32, was outside the Church Bar in Atlanta on a first date Saturday when he got into an argument with another man and was eventually gunned down after jokingly saying that he voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election, the New York Post reports. Shaunita Walker, 25, the woman Mormon was…
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Why You Should Be Glad We’re Getting a 2nd Chance to Show Some Love to Daughters of the Dust
In the late ’80s, when filmmaker Julie Dash was raising money for her directorial debut, Daughters of the Dust, she met with resistance. “It’s been done,” people told her, citing the TV series Roots, the movie Sounder and even Gone With the Wind. Few of these potential funders recognized the breadth and originality of Dash’s…
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White Anti-Racists Must Be ‘Stone Catchers’ for Oppressed People
White America, from Main Street to the nation’s capital, from our dinner tables to our textbooks, from the media to the religious pew, created Donald Trump. We must own him and everything he represents. He is a product of white supremacy, and each of us is not only complicit but also has benefited from a…
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Students Expelled From Abilene Christian University for Posting Snapchat Video in Blackface
It seems as if some white college students still haven’t learned that blackface isn’t OK. This time around, a video of an unidentified female student from Abilene Christian University in Texas wearing full blackface was posted to Snapchat, according to the New York Daily News. All of the students involved were summoned to university President Phil…
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‘What Do I Look Like I Do for a Living?’ The Hilarious Question That Went Viral on Twitter
Black Twitter has a history of making the funniest and most random memes and hashtags go viral. Some make you laugh so hard, it can be almost impossible to breathe. This time, people are posting pictures of themselves or other people along with the question, “What do I look like I do for a living?”…
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Ava DuVernay Announces A Wrinkle in Time Release Date by Doing the Mannequin Challenge
Just about everyone has tried to upstage each other with their own versions of the mannequin challenge, but Ava DuVernay may have just won the game by using it to announce the release date of A Wrinkle in Time. The Disney film is based on Madeleine L’Engle’s classic children’s novel. DuVernay tweeted the video, which…
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