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Jazz Vocalist Connects Christmas Album to Loss of Her Family
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by vocalist Nnenna Freelon and John Brown to talk about their seasonal jazz collaboration, entitled Christmas, and how the death of Freelon’s parents motivated her album. Watch the interview here:
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Sorry, Duck Dynasty, That’s How Capitalism Works
It’s not exactly a shock that Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson is embracing his inner homophobe. After all, he’s a self-proclaimed “Bible-thumper” who sees his hit reality-TV series as a vehicle for delivering “the good news about Jesus” to folks, “whether they’re homosexuals, drunks, terrorists.” So when he emptied both his barrels in the pages of…
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The Twitter TV Show Is on Its Way. Who’s Watching?
Hacking Twitter, the best-selling book about the social network’s meteoric rise to dominance, will be the basis of a new televisions series, Lionsgate announced Wednesday. If you’ve read the book, you know that Hacking Twitter is mostly about wealthy white men fighting over money and ideas. The show might not get any more interesting than…
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What's Wrong With Twitter Feminism?
<a href=”http://feministcurrent.com/author/meghan-murphy-2/” title=”Posts by Meghan Murphy founder of The Feminist Currant, has pissed quite a few people off with her latest post “The Trouble with Twitter Feminism.” In it, she details the problems she’s encountered while engaging with feminists on Twitter, and expounds on why she thinks “Twitter is a horrible place for feminism.” Among…
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Black Christmas: What the Budget Deal Means for African Americans
Republicans and Democrats in Congress are patting their backs as if simply doing their job deserves a gratuity. Their budget deal, passed by the Senate on Wednesday, has now gone to the president’s desk for signing. But though this moment may represent a temporary cease-fire of Republican obstructionism, the Ayn Rand-ian principles that have guided…
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Al Sharpton in Chicago: Some Hope Among the Skepticism
The day before a planned town hall meeting in Chicago to be hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, an activist in Roseland, one of the city’s deadliest communities, expressed hope that Sharpton could help stanch the flow of blood of young black males. “I’m glad Al Sharpton’s here,” Diane Latiker, founder of Kids Off…
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Quote of the Day: Lydia R. Diamond on People
You can read this line from the play Stick Fly (2008) in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about the play 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 of The Root. Follow…
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Oh, No, He Didn’t: A Groupon on a First Date?
“A guy asked me out for a first date. We went to a nice restaurant. All was well until the bill came. He pulled out a two-for-one Groupon and told me that I could cover the tip. My girls say dump him immediately. I’m not opposed to using coupons or saving money, but well into…
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How to Plan a Wedding When Your White Fiance’s Twin Hates You
“Several months ago I got engaged to a wonderful, warm, kindhearted, generous man who is an identical twin and happens to be white. I’m black. We were told that his twin brother’s wife did not approve of interracial dating and that she would not be in the same house (his parents’ for dinner) I was…
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Black Legislators Want Your Voting Rights Back
When Rep. Alicia Reece—a Democrat representing Cincinnati in the Ohio state legislature—hears people say the next big political event in the Buckeye State won’t materialize until the 2016 presidential election is underway, she wonders what political planet they inhabit. In 2012, Reece saw conservative political operatives erect a billboard in her neighborhood that claimed to…
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