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Kevin Grevioux Gives Frankenstein New Life
With Friday’s highly anticipated release of I, Frankenstein, Kevin Grevioux solidifies his place as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after African-American screenwriters, graphic novelists and producers in the sci-fi and fantasy genre. Grevioux is a Chicago native and graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., but he’s best-known as the co-creator of the successful Underworld movie…
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I Can’t Believe My Ethnic DNA Test Results!
“I was just reading your column, ‘I’m Creole. Why Do I Have South Asian DNA?’ I, too, have ancestral roots in Andhra Pradesh region of India and South Africa. I identify—and the rest of the world identifies me—as a black male. However, a test I took from DNA Tribes says I also have large concentrations…
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Justin Bieber Is Out Here Making White People Look Bad
In case you’ve missed it, Justin Bieber got arrested last night in Miami. It’s not funny that he broke the law, or that he was charged with a DUI and could have hurt someone while driving drunk. But it is kind of fun to, well, poke fun at how we talk about Bieber’s legal troubles,…
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This ‘Subhuman Mongrel’ Forgives You, Ted Nugent
How can you not feel just a little bit sorry for Ted Nugent? The onetime “Motor City Madman” had an impressive 50-plus-year performing career that brought him fame and fortune, but it’s been a long time since he reached his creative peak with the layered, nuanced mega-hit “Cat Scratch Fever” in 1977—and perhaps it’s been…
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An Open Letter to Those Who Still Believe in the NAACP
On Aug. 3, 1994, syndicated columnist Carl Rowan (pdf) published the first of four blistering columns on the NAACP. It began: “It is sickening to watch the death of the NAACP, a once-proud organization now being strangled by two incredibly arrogant leaders.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at that time was…
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Quote of the Day: Angela Bassett on Movie Images
You can read this quote by Angela Bassett from an interview with the Guardian (2009) 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…
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Rooting for Olivia and Mary Jane Doesn’t Mean You Co-Sign Adultery
“Do you think shows like Scandal and Being Mary Jane are condoning adultery or man-sharing to black women? It’s strange that the only two noticeable scripted shows about black women show them as ‘the other woman.’ I see so many women rooting for them. Is adultery ‘in style’ now?” —Anonymous There have always been, and…
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Roe v. Wade Anniversary: For Black Women, the Issue Is Contraception
Today marks the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion. The decision is rightly credited with saving the lives of thousands of women: According to the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, prior to Roe, 5,000 women died annually from illegal abortions. So while many women are alive thanks to Roe, a strong argument can be…
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Missing Michigan Doctor Teleka Patrick: Police Still Searching for Clues
Seven weeks after Teleka Patrick went missing, investigators are still searching for clues as to the whereabouts of the promising young Michigan doctor. What they do know, Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard C. Fuller said during a news conference Wednesday, is that Patrick, 30, has disappeared for short stretches of time in the past, checking into a hotel…
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Quote of the Day: Iman on Beauty
You can read this quote by Iman in her book I Am Iman (2001) and in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Find out about Iman’s efforts to promote diversity in the fashion industry 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…
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