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Watch: Take a Page From Toya Wright's Book
TV personality and New York Times best-selling author Toya Wright wants to introduce you to “Toya.” And her memoir, In My Own Words, does just that. Be clear: The independently published book isn’t about “Toya Wright,” the reality-TV star, the public figure—it’s about a mother, daughter, sister and a wife. In My Own Words is…
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Finding the Power in Black Voices
This traumatic election year has brought America’s long-standing violence toward black people to the fore. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s explicit racism—and the thousands of people who want to give him the highest seat in the land—boldly underscores America’s investment in white supremacy and oppression. Things could get worse. But I also have to hope…
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Autopsy Findings of Fatally Beaten NYC 6-Year-Old Released
Autopsy results for Zymere Perkins, 6, who died after being physically abused, have been released, the New York Post reports. On Sept. 26, Zymere was beaten with a broomstick in his Harlem apartment. Apparently he was beaten for defecating in a bucket. “The cause of death is fatal child-abuse syndrome,” said Julie Bolcer, spokeswoman for…
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Mom Slams School After Daughter Is Reportedly Sexually Assaulted Twice in Same Week
A 29-year-old woman says she is infuriated with education officials for failing to protect her daughter from being sexually assaulted at her Brooklyn, N.Y., middle school, the New York Daily News reports. “It’s disgusting for a parent to learn her daughter was almost raped inside a school building,” she said. The attacks reportedly occurred at…
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I Know Who Owned My Ancestors. What Now?
I’ve managed to trace my family ancestry back to an Adalin and Alex Vinson. The records I have state that Adalin (the spellings of her name vary) was born around 1825 and died around 1915. Alex was born around 1820 and died around 1878. They had quite a few children, including my great-great-grandmother Sabre. I…
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The NAACP Charter School Ban: Good Intentions Take a Bad Turn
Based on its century-long mission and in-the-trenches fight for social justice, it certainly goes without saying that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an organization built on good intentions and good causes. It’s one of the few reliably steady organizations African Americans can depend on when freedoms are compromised by generations…
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Review: Moonlight Chronicles Discovering One’s Sexual Identity in the Worst of Circumstances
In Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ (Medicine for Melancholy) semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, we follow the three life stages of Chiron (Alex Hibbert), a young African-American boy trying to figure out his identity in Liberty City, a rough Miami neighborhood. Chiron, who is nicknamed “Little,” is bullied relentlessly by neighborhood boys, who have decided that he is gay…
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Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Says Everyone Descends From Africa
Some students from Texas State University in San Marcos got up and left their lecture hall after their professor, Jon McGee, said that all people originated from Africa, The Tab reports. Apparently the day’s lesson was supposed to be on race. He began talking about the Black Lives Matter movement and how it had come about…
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NYC Man Shoots BB Rifle From Roof of Building, Hitting 10-Year-Old in Classroom
Anfernee Olivo, 19, shot a BB rifle from the rooftop of his Bronx, N.Y., apartment Wednesday afternoon, striking a 10-year-old girl who was sitting in her classroom at the school next door, the New York Daily News reports. Lia Urena, 10, was hit in the forearm while sitting in her classroom on the fifth floor of…
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Fear of a Nonwhite Planet
What are black people to do when the dog-whistling becomes a siren song? As his campaign shows signs of sinking beneath the tide of sexual assault accusations, his own vile words, inconsistent and nonexistent political and social policies, and an inability to follow the suggestions of his advisers or to stay on script during public…
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