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Forget Duck Dynasty; There Are Important Civil Rights Battles to Fight
When the PR director of a digital-media company tweeted a racist remark about AIDS in Africa before boarding a flight from the United States to South Africa, thousands of Twitter followers tracked her flight. Thousands pressured cable channel A&E to suspend reality star Phil Robertson from his popular show, Duck Dynasty, after the publication of…
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Oklahoma Woman Receives Good Fortune After Returning $800
Teriasia Dean, a retail makeup artist from Oklahoma, said she was only doing the right thing this week when she returned a Coach purse containing $800, after finding it in the parking lot of her apartment complex, media reports show. “It wasn’t my bag. It wasn’t my stuff. That’s not my belongings; Teriasia Dean’s name…
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Obamacare Enrollment Surpasses 1,000,000
An estimated 1.1 million people reportedly enrolled in health care coverage through the federal marketplace between Oct. 1 and Dec. 24, the government announced Sunday, according to CNN. A large number of enrollees—975,000—signed up in December, Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a blog post. She called it…
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Jahi McMath’s Family Pins ‘Last Hope’ on New York Hospital
The family of a California girl declared brain-dead after complications from tonsil surgery scrambled Sunday to find a new facility to take her in order to keep her on a ventilator, the Associated Press reports. A judge’s ruling will allow Children’s Hospital Oakland to remove 13-year-old Jahi McMath from life support at 5 p.m. Monday…
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Plus-Size Barbie Sparks Debate
Should Barbie come in plus sizes? A Facebook page for Plus Size Modeling is asking just that. The page, which features a plus-sized Barbie with a triple chin, asks followers to “like” the image if they think toy companies should make the dolls and to comment if not. As of midday Sunday, more than 41,000 people had “liked” the…
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President Obama Hit by Protests on Hawaiian Vacation
The relative peacefulness of President Barack Obama’s Hawaiian vacation was slightly disrupted Saturday when demonstrators raised signs in protest against unmanned aircraft and other issues near the first family’s holiday rental house, Reuters reports. On the way back from an early morning gym visit at nearby Marine Corps Base Hawaii, the president’s motorcade passed a…
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22-Year-Old Rapper Killed in Alabama Shooting
Doe B., an up-and-coming rapper, was fatally wounded early Sunday following a wild shoot-out at a popular nightspot in Montgomery, Ala., the Associated Press reports. Another person also was slain in the shooting, and six others were wounded, the report shows. The incident occurred about 1 a.m. at Centennial Hill Bar & Grill, about a…
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Lupita Nyong’o Bows Out of 12 Years a Slave Italian Premiere
In the aftermath of controversy surrounding Italian posters of 12 Years a Slave that highlighted white supporting actors Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender instead of black star Chiwetel Ejiofor, it was announced Friday that Lupita Nyong’o would not attend the premiere in Capri, reports show. As a result, the 18th annual Capri Hollywood International Film…
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Quote of the Day: Andre 3000 on Dance
You can read this lyric from the song “Hey Ya!” (2003), by Andre 3000 and Outkast, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about the song 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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‘Question Bridge’ Explores Experience of Black Males in America
Though its subject matter is, in some ways, very specific—black males in America talking about the issues of their identity—as an exhibition “Question Bridge: Black Males,” now on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, is a completely immersive experience, enthralling and engaging, by which any viewer can be at once confused and fascinated. The…
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