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Did Madonna Call Her Son the N-Word?
Madonna stepped into it yesterday when she Instagrammed a photo of her 13-year-old son, Rocco, during a boxing workout. “No one messes with Dirty Soap!” she wrote in the caption. “Mama said knock you out! #disn—-a.” She deleted the post immediately, but then she reposted it with this odd double down. Because anyone who takes…
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Oliver Stone: MLK Biopic Hits Snag
Hollywood director Oliver Stone’s much anticipated biopic about Martin Luther King Jr. is probably not coming to a theater near you anytime soon. A rewrite of the script for the film, which was to feature Jamie Foxx, was rejected by DreamWorks and Warner Bros., he announced Friday on Twitter. Problems occurred when the studios, said…
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Avonte Oquendo: Missing Autistic Teen’s Clothing Found With Remains
No one has reported seeing Avonte Oquendo since he slipped passed a security guard and made his way out of the Riverview School in Long Island City, Queens, N.Y., on Oct. 4, 2013. Since then the 14-year-old, who was obsessed with the subway system, has been the focus of massive searches. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation…
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Chicago Man Guilty of Killing 9-Year-Old Daughter in Grisly Cover-Up
Richard Lyons told police that he rushed his daughter’s limp and lifeless body to a hospital after finding it in an alley near his home on Chicago’s South Side in July 2008, NBC Chicago reports. He told investigators that his daughter, Mya, had been attacked by a burglar who was trying to break into a basement.…
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Quote of the Day: Iyanla Vanzant on Honoring Yourself
You can read this quote from Iyanla Vanzant in her book Acts of Faith (1993) and 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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Marine Corps Tweets Really Bad MLK Joke
The U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) wants its followers to be safe this MLK weekend, so it issued the following tip on its Twitter page: And then it posted a similar message on Facebook: Huh? MARSOC is a unit within Marine Corps’ U.S. Special Operations Command. On Twitter and Facebook, the unit…
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Is There a Mexican President in My Black Family Tree?
“I would like to know if I am related to a president of Mexico. The story told to me was that Jesús Carranza, described as ‘former president of Mexico,’ was assassinated by rebels, and his children had to flee the country as a result. (Jesús was actually the father of Venustiano Carranza, who himself became…
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Ride Along and the 12 Best Black Buddy Comedies
If you haven’t felt the surge of black creativity in film and TV, you’re seriously missing something. The revolution is being televised, downloaded, recorded and streamed on screens big and small, and two of our biggest stars are happy to be a part of it. We chatted with Ride Along partners Ice Cube and Kevin Hart at the…
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First Lady Shows Off Her New AARP Card
Michelle Obama turns 50 today. Here she is proudly posing with her new AARP card on Twitter. She’s so cute. “I don’t feel that much differently than I did when I was younger,” Obama told People magazine earlier this week. “What I hear is that age is a number, it’s a state of mind.” And…
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Hollywood Doesn’t Recognize the Complexity of Black Life
This should have been the year that black directors dominated the Oscars. In 2013 several black filmmakers produced and directed well-crafted films that examine black life. Of that group, three in particular—Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) and Lee Daniels (The Butler)—created films of historic significance, each of which explores a…
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