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Pay Up, Colleges, and Stop Exploiting Your 'Student-Athletes'
Recently, Bill Maher tweeted that “March Madness really is a stirring reminder of what America was founded on—making tons of money off the labor of unpaid black people.” Although there are some parallels, college athletes do receive scholarships and are not forced to play. A more accurate comparison would be when a company builds a…
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Ex-FAMU Band Member Gets 1 Year for Role in Hazing Death
A judge on Friday sentenced a former Florida A&M band member to one year in jail for his role in the brutal hazing death of Robert Champion, a drum major, the Associated Press reports. Circuit Court Judge Marc Lubet sentenced 22-year-old Jessie Baskin, to 51 weeks in county jail, five years’ probation and 300 hours of…
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Chemical Plant Threatens to Erase Enclave Founded by Freed Slave
A project led by South African chemical giant SASOL threatens to erase the small community of Mossville, La., which was founded in 1790 by Jim Moss, a freed slave, Mother Jones reports. Over the past half-century, the small, predominantly African American unincorporated enclave on the outskirts of Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish, La., has been…
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Search Intensifies for 8-Year-Old DC-Area Girl
Police continued to search a sprawling park in Washington, D.C., for 8-year-old Relisha Tenau Rudd, saying they could not rule any possibility in the investigation that is now focused on a possible abductor wanted for the murder of his wife, CNN reports. Detectives began searching the aquatic gardens area of Kenilworth Park on Thursday after…
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NJ Teen Suspended for Flying Confederate Flag on Truck
Seventeen-year-old Gregory Vied says he was suspended for flying a Confederate flag on his pickup truck, which was parked in a student lot at Steinert High School in Hamilton Township, N.J., Fox News reports. Vied told News12 he was suspended after many warnings from school administrators to remove it. He said that although he understands the history…
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Quote of the Day: Brad Bushman on Video Games and Race
You can read this quote by Ohio State professor Brad Bushman, from a press release announcing the findings of a study exploring the influence of avatar race in violent video games, in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African…
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Marcus Samuelsson Hosts Benefit for Victims of East Harlem Building Collapse
Some residents and business owners in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood are still struggling to recover in the aftermath of a gas explosion that left eight people dead and flattened two 5-story apartment buildings about two weeks ago. At least 100 people were left homeless after the morning blast on Wed., March 12. And…
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Black Women Must Harness Their Political Power
Fannie Lou Hamer was a poor black woman with a sixth-grade education who spent much of her life working in the cotton fields. Her legacy, however, demonstrates that each of us has an important voice and role to play in our democracy, and as we near the end of Women’s History Month, it is a mighty reminder of…
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In the Ebony-GOP Twitter Beef, Republicans Need to Toughen Up
Right off the bat, let’s be clear: Insults don’t elevate the dialogue. So there’s no way to condone it when a black Republican gets called a “sellout” or an “Uncle Tom.” And by that same standard, it’s equally uncool when left-leaning African Americans are referred to as “low information voters” stranded on the Democrats’ “plantation.”…
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A Harlem Church and the Hate That Produced a ‘Hate Crime’
Does God hate fags? According to Pastor James D. Manning, the answer, apparently, is “yes,” because the marque outside Manning’s ATLAH World Missionary Church in Harlem bore these words: “Jesus would stone homos. Stoning is still the law.” It’s the message that a passerby could read outside the otherwise typical-looking entrance to his church a few weeks…
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