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Koch Foundation Gives $25 million to United Negro College Fund
The Koch family is giving $25 million to the United Negro College Fund, one of the largest gifts the UNCF has ever received, Time reports. It is the fifth-largest grant to the UNCF and adds to more than $1.5 million in contributions from the conservative and controversial Koch family and its businesses over nearly four…
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Maya Angelou Wasn’t Just a Writer—She Inspired Generations
On Saturday Maya Angelou’s homegoing will offer a chance to reflect on one of the less-often discussed aspects of her panoramic legacy: that of a radical political intellectual who indelibly shaped the times she lived in. The wealth of memorials and tributes honoring Angelou in the aftermath of her May 28 passing have acknowledged the…
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Memories of Maya Angelou: The Best Videos
Poet and author Maya Angelou will be memorialized in a private family ceremony Saturday at Wake Forest University. Since she died last week at age 86, resurfaced videos have served as reminders of her wise insights and powerful presence. As final goodbyes are said to the literary legend, we’re left with memories of Angelou in…
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James Clyburn Warns of Those Who Are Turning Back the Clock on Racial Progress
There is victory in perseverance. It is the fable about the tortoise’s slow pace being just the pace he needs. It is the religious doctrine that heralds, what comes doesn’t always come when you want it but when you need it. James Clyburn knows this well, having been a child in school during the slow…
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If You Want Immigration Reform, Don’t Defend Immigrants Who Commit Crimes
When history looks back on President Barack Obama’s most significant accomplishments, championing the Affordable Care Act and signing it into law will be at the top of that list. His efforts to resolve America’s immigration crisis should belong on that list, too. But because of liberal overreach and political correctness, the president’s record on immigration…
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Does Lunch With a Boy Toy Mean You’re Cheating on Your Husband? Yes
I’m a married woman and have gone to lunch with a man 12 years younger for the past few days. He calls me his “big sis,” and we talk a lot about religion, sports, etc., but there’s nothing physical. Is this cheating? Disrespectful? My husband shouldn’t have a say, considering an affair he had in…
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13 Things I Wish I Knew on Graduation Day
I have no idea who spoke during my college-graduation ceremony or what she (I think it was a woman) said. Chances are she talked about passion, service to others, following your dream, learning from failure, changing the world, fears, opportunity, blah, blah, blah. Commencement speeches often follow these worthy themes. Here is what I wish…
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Why Is This White Woman in a Morehouse Shirt?
Even Morehouse College, one of the nation’s most iconic black institutions, isn’t immune to the overreaching influence of mainstream (read: white) culture. At least it seems that’s what visual artist Sanford Biggers wants us to consider in a recent untitled work depicting a gleeful blond woman wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of the historically…
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Help Me Find My Hidden Black Ancestor!
I am white, but DNA testing at both 23andMe and Family Tree DNA has turned up a small amount of African ancestry. So far, my attempts to find a black ancestor have failed. Family Tree DNA is showing that I’m 1 percent sub-Saharan African, and 23andMe is showing between 1.2 percent and 1.4 percent sub-Saharan…
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OITNB: Today’s Best Black Show Has a White Star
Orange Is the New Black premieres all episodes of its second season on Friday, June 6. Plot specifics aside, if the message of the next iteration of the critically acclaimed Netflix drama is anything like the first, there’s one takeaway we can look forward to, and it’s this: Criminals are people, too. Sometimes they’re white…
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