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$1,000,000 Wheel of Fortune Fail: Student Says, ‘I Did My Best’
Indiana University freshman Julian Batts appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday to discuss an unfortunate string of answers on Wheel of Fortune that cost him a chance to win $1 million, a car and a trip to Jamaica. Although Batts eventually won the game on the show that aired Friday, collecting $11,700, his…
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Harvard Accepts Record Percentage of Black Students
College admissions letters are out, and for the Class of 2018, Harvard University has accepted a record-high percentage of black students. According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, of Harvard’s total acceptances for the Class of 2018, 11.9 percent are black, the highest ever for the university. The journal estimates that nearly 170…
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Michael Eric Dyson Returns Fire at Cornel West; Limbaugh Is Right About Colbert
The News: It is a rare moment when Michael Eric Dyson isn’t talking, but for more than a year he kept mum while being ridiculed by onetime comrade Cornel West. At a recent forum in New York, Dyson unleashed a counterattack that could ignite a war of words between two of the country’s leading black intellectuals.…
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Teleka Patrick Drowned, 2nd Autopsy Confirms
A second autopsy of 30-year-old Kalamazoo doctor Teleka Patrick confirmed the previous autopsy’s conclusion that she had died of asphyxia from drowning, a private investigator hired by Patrick’s family told the news website MLive. Jim Carlin, the investigator, told the news site that he attended the second autopsy, which was conducted Friday at the Marion…
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Belafonte, MLK Estate Settle Document Suit
Harry Belafonte and the Martin Luther King Jr. estate have settled a lawsuit on terms that allow Belafonte to keep several documents he acquired during his friendship with the civil rights leader, the Associated Press reports. The singer sued the estate in Manhattan federal court in October to establish rights to certain documents, The Root…
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Kansas Shooting Suspect ID’d as Former KKK Leader
A 73-year-old man accused of killing three people at Jewish facilities near Kansas City is a former Ku Klux Klan leader, NBC News reports, citing law enforcement officials. Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. of Aurora, Mo., allegedly shot and killed a 14-year-old Eagle Scout and his grandfather in a parking lot at the Jewish Community Center…
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‘Regular Black’ vs. ‘Ethnic Black’: Why the Divide?
I first heard someone at a black student union party refer to herself—and to me, by extension—as a “regular black.” The music had made a quick turn from the latest rap song to a Caribbean dancehall mix. “Oh, I’m regular black; I don’t dance to this music.” Well, this “regular black” continued dancing, but I…
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How an HBCU Prepared Me for Harvard
As a Harvard School of Education graduate, I was elated and moved to see the global conversation that the creators of the recent I, Too, Am Harvard and Being Black at the University of Michigan campaigns sparked about the experience of underrepresented groups on college campuses, including the one where I earned my master’s degree. There’s no…
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Why the Sudden Rush Into Africa? It’s the Oil
Kenya, Libya Uganda and Nigeria are thousands of miles removed from that toilet of European tension known as Ukraine, but as drama unfolds in Eastern Europe, their destinies could be closely aligned. In essence, the more Russian President Vladimir Putin puts the grip on Russian gas prices, the more Western powers—from NATO to the United…
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The ‘Black’ Witch of Salem?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 75: Was a black slave…
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