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Lolo Jones: Controversy Follows Her to Sochi Olympics
Olympic triumph may be the gold standard for exhilarating moments of unsurpassed athletic glory. But just as compelling are those heartrending moments—the slip off the balance beam, the wipeout around the last curve of the ice oval, the crash on the closing triple-toe loop or the final flight off a mogul—when it all goes terribly…
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Was Andromeda Black?
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. 68: What was the original…
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Why Are White Men Like Michael Dunn So Angry?
Why are so many white men like Michael Dunn angry? Dunn, the man found guilty Saturday on three counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting into a car full of black teenagers at a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station after an argument over loud rap music—but not convicted of the murder of Jordan Davis, the 17-year-old slain in…
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12 Years a Slave Wins Top Honors at BAFTA
Following a night of losses in key categories at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards ceremony Sunday, 12 Years a Slave was named best film of 2013, according to the Wrap. Steve McQueen’s poignant drama garnered the last-minute triumph after Chiwetel Ejiofor won for best actor at the ceremony at London’s Royal…
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Michelle Obama Tops Hillary Clinton in First Lady Poll
It’s no secret that Michelle Obama is an outstanding first lady. Now there are poll numbers to prove it. The Chicago-native is ranked in the top five of first ladies, coming in fifth place, just ahead of Hillary Clinton, who is sixth, according to a survey of historians that was released Saturday, Reuters reports. Eleanor…
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Fla. State Attorney Angela Corey on Dunn Mistrial: ‘We Don’t Back Off’
Michael Dunn was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, but a judge declared a mistrial late Saturday after the jury failed to reach an agreement on the charge. Dunn was found guilty on three counts of attempted murder and one for firing into an occupied vehicle. Florida State Attorney…
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George Zimmerman Is Homeless and Wants a Normal Life
George Zimmerman wants a normal life. He makes the revelation during an interview with the Spanish-language station Univision, the Daily News reports. He says he lives in fear for his life after being acquitted last summer in the death of Trayvon Martin, but believes he did the right thing, according to a preview of an…
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Angelo Henderson: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Dies at 51
In 1999, Angelo B. Henderson became the only African-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize for the Wall Street Journal. The following year, he was honored by Columbia University as one of the nation’s best reporters on race and ethnicity in America, the Detroit News reports. He was beloved by members of the National Association of…
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Quote of the Day: Louis Armstrong on Folk Music
You can read this quote from Louis Armstrong, which was referenced in his New York Times obituary, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more quotes from Armstrong 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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Review: Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Friends, I bring you great news. Contrary to what you might have assumed from the title of the play, Sizwe Banzi is in fact not dead after all, but very much alive and well in London. In extremely fine fettle, even. Not bad for a man reputed to have been dead for some 42 years,…
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