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Texas Cops Arrest Black Student Filming ‘Speed Traps,’ Hurl Epithet
A 25-year-old student at the University of Texas at San Antonio was simply filming officers as they pulled over cars along a highway and posting the videos to Facebook. She wrote: “This is where our funding is going, straight into hard police work,” according to KENS 5. The next thing Abie Kyle Ikhinmwin knew, she was…
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Vandals Hit Spike Lee’s Old Block After Gentrification Rant
Director Spike Lee isn’t the only one who’s angry. CNN reports that just days after the filmmaker’s expletive-filled rail against gentrification in his old neighborhood, vandals hit his father’s home and shattered the front door of the neighbor’s home on Washington Park in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, N.Y. “Do the Right Thing,” the…
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Watch: Philadelphia 76ers Retire Allen Iverson’s No. 3
Retired NBA player Allen Iverson took to the court Saturday to bid farewell to fans, friends and colleagues as the Philadelphia 76ers held a ceremony to retire his No. 3, ESPN reports. He reportedly cupped his hand to his left ear in a request to hear his favorite tune for the last time. And on cue, an…
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12 Years a Slave Sweeps 2014 Spirit Awards
On the eve of the Academy Awards, 12 Years a Slave scored big Saturday at the 2014 Spirit Awards, winning in several categories, including best feature, the Huffington Post reports. Additionally, Steve McQueen won for best director, Lupita Nyong’o for best supporting actress, John Ridley for best screenplay and Sean Bobbitt for cinematography. The awards…
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Quote of the Day: Harold Cruse on Cultural Nationalism
You can read this quote by Harold Cruse, from his book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967), 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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Lupita Overcame Her Color Issues. But What About All the Other Lupitas?
Receiving Essence magazine’s best breakthrough performance award for her role in 12 Years a Slave Thursday afternoon, Lupita Nyong’o delivered a poignant revelation about the rejection of her own dark complexion that plagued her childhood. “[M]y one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned,” she said in a confession,…
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Powerful New Biography Recounts Life and Work of Stokely Carmichael
Editor’s note: “If Martin [Luther King Jr.] served as the king of the black freedom movement during the civil rights era, then Stokely [Carmichael] reigned as the prince of a revolutionary movement for political self-determination and cultural pride that would be embodied in his call for black power.” So wrote Peniel Joseph in a tribute…
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Michigan Man Convicted of Killing 4 Women He Met Online
A courtroom erupted in cheers and sobs Friday after a jury convicted 25-year-old James C. Brown in the brutal deaths of four women, who were killed after meeting him through ads on an adult website, the Detroit Free Press reports. Statements like “my baby got justice,” and “they know” echoed throughout the courtroom as relatives…
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Watch: Obama and Biden Move for Let’s Move!
In celebration of the fourth anniversary of Let’s Move! the first lady last week asked people of all ages to show her how they move through their everyday fitness routine, how they are making better food choices or how they are helping move their community toward new standards of health for our kids. She even…
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Clintons’ Health Care Overhaul Efforts Raised Early Concerns
Documents released Friday reveal that aides to the former president were concerned about the health care reform proposal in 1993 and 1994. Aides to former President Bill Clinton reportedly expressed concern early in his tenure about the health care reform effort led by Hillary Rodham Clinton, and later about a need to soften her image,…
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