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Quote of the Day: Thelonious Monk on Math
You can read this quote by Thelonious Monk, from an interview with Down Beat in 1971, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read how the quote is referenced here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the…
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Memo to Rutgers: Don’t Boycott Condi Now If You Won’t Boycott Hillary Later
Put me down as a skeptic when it comes to Condoleezza Rice. Although she’s generally applauded for her barrier-breaking career in public service, as the first African-American woman to serve as secretary of state and national security adviser, “her signature ‘achievement’ in public life,” as I wrote a couple of years ago, “was co-signing Bush’s…
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Daughter Convicted of Money Laundering
A federal jury on Friday convicted the daughter of President Obama’s former pastor of laundering thousands of dollars from a $1.25 million state grant for a Chicago-based job-training program, the Chicago Tribune reports. Jeri L. Wright, the 48-year-old daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, told the Tribune Friday as she left a Springfield, Ill., courtroom…
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Michigan Doctor Teleka Patrick: Few Clues to Disappearance 3 Months Later
This week marked three months since 30-year-old Michigan doctor Teleka Patrick vanished without a trace after work one day. Patrick, who was in the midst of a psychiatric residency at Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., was last seen on Dec. 5 as she tried to book a room downtown at a Radisson Plaza Hotel &…
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Mom Charged With Attempted 1st-Degree Murder After Driving Kids Into the Ocean
Thirty-two-year-old Ebony Wilkerson’s three children were reportedly screaming for their lives when she drove a minivan into the ocean surf off of Florida, the Associated Press reports. The children, ages 3, 9 and 10, were rescued Tuesday by bystanders and officers as the minivan was almost submerged off a coast in Daytona Beach, Fla. Wilkerson,…
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‘Gladiator School’: FBI Investigates Idaho Private Prison for Abuse
The FBI has opened an investigation into one of the largest private-prison operators over its management of an Idaho prison with a reputation for violence, which inmates call “gladiator school,” according the Associated Press. Corrections Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., which has operated Idaho’s largest private prison for more than a decade, has…
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Quote of the Day: Billie Holiday on Enslavement
You can read this quote from Billie Holiday, from her book Lady Sings the Blues (1956), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote 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 American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief…
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Tilane Jones: Making Her Mark in Hollywood
Empires are built by forward-thinking individuals who see things that other people do not. Foundations are stabilized by great logistical minds who convert grand ideas into practical steps. For six years, visionary film director-writer-PR expert Ava DuVernay has been just that kind of individual. Her African American Film Festival Releasing Movement [AFFRM] is a first…
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Yes, Rep. Issa, Cutting Rep. Cummings’ Mic Really Was Pretty ‘Sorry’
On Thursday Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)—chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee—told Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)—the committee’s ranking minority member—that he’s sorry for cutting off Cummings’ mic at a hearing on Wednesday before the Democrat had a chance to speak his piece. It was part of the ongoing squabble between the parties in…
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Scandal Recap: Of Monsters and Men
Last night was so tantalizingly entertaining and fun to watch that I literally clapped my hands and squealed with delight while watching alone in my living room. Remember when Beyoncé’s first single came out and we all thought, “This is really good, but she still could be a one-hit wonder”? Then she comes out with…
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