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Obama Girls Stand Tall as Role Models
Sasha Obama has done it again. Weeks ago the youngest first daughter wore a sweater in public that ended up selling out shortly thereafter. Now her recent ensemble at her father’s official Thanksgiving Turkey-pardoning press conference has also generated headlines, and style watchers are anticipating that it may spark frenzy, too. This would simply mean…
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African-American Girl Won’t Be Expelled for Her Hair
A 12-year-old African-American girl who said she was threatened with expulsion from an Orlando, Fla., private school unless she made changes to the look of her natural hair will not be booted out after all, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Last week, Vanessa VanDyke said school officials gave her one week to decide whether to…
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Selling While Black: Racism Revealed in Online Shopping Study
Are you black? Considering making some cash by selling unwanted items online this holiday season? You might not want to show any of your skin in the photos of your goods. The Daily Mail reports that according to the results of a newly released yearlong study tracking the sales of iPods on Craigslist, shoppers are…
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‘White Girl’s Perspective’ on ‘Trophy Scarves’: It’s Important
Photographer Nate Hill says his new “Trophy Scarves” exhibit, featuring images of himself in a tuxedo with near-naked white women draped lifelessly around his shoulders like human accessories, is meant to make a statement. “Well, there are people who see certain races as status symbols, and someone had to comment on that,” Hill, who conveyed…
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Using a Male Wingman to Get Dates Won’t Fly
“I’m new to my city, but I already made a guy friend. We’re just friends; I don’t like him romantically. He has a girlfriend, but I asked him to meet me at an event to be my wingman so I could meet other guys. His girlfriend invites herself along, and he doesn’t tell me until…
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Quote of the Day: Howard Thurman on Family
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When ‘Shopping While Black’ Goes Right
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the official beginning of the Christmas shopping season, lures hoards of Americans to major retailers in the wee hours of the morning for deals on everything from clothing to electronics. A single glance at the composition of the crowds rabidly seeking half-price flat-screen televisions, and one thing is…
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Here's What We Know #BecauseofKanye
Kanye West understands quite well that people think he’s nuts. “What people call a rant, I call a visionary stream of consciousnness,” Kanye West said in an interview with New York Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club on Tuesday. Author and writer Janet Mock agrees with his assessment, and started #BecauseofKanye, a hashtag that pays homage…
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Charges Against Rekia Boyd Cop: ‘An Exception to the Rule’
The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., scholars and the lawyer who represented Rekia Boyd’s family in a civil suit expressed surprise this week that a white off-duty Chicago police officer has been charged in the shooting death of the unarmed black woman. “The fact that the officer in this case was charged is an exception to…
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Why a Supreme Court Challenge of Obamacare Matters
Despite the seemingly endless bad press that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act has received in recent weeks, supporters of the Obama administration and “Obamacare” could take comfort in one thing: Aside from Sen. Ted Cruz et al’s blustering, overturning Obamacare was virtually impossible. That is, virtually impossible at the legislative level, something critics…
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