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End of an Era: SpinMedia Buys Vibe Magazine
SpinMedia, the owner of Spin magazine, announced on Thursday that it has bought 21-year-old hip-hop and R&B publication Vibe, the New York Times reports. Spin chief executive Steve Hansen said that the company plans to shut down Vibe’s print magazine later this year: The sale reunites the two publications, which more than a decade ago were part…
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Black Men Aren't 'Allowed' to be Human?
Damon Young writes: For years people have written, spoken, and even created art about the fact that African-American men are burdened with a suffocatingly rigid definition of who and what a man is supposed be. It’s also common to blame this on a combination of history, socialization, and sexual expectation. Basically, black men are the way…
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Tamar Braxton Talks Pregnancy, Motherhood
Tamar Braxton and Vince Herbert have been at the top of media’s gossip chain since the first episode of WEtv’s Braxton Family Values aired April 12, 2011. With Tamar’s Igotplentyofmouth.com attitude and Vince’s laidback, go-with-the-flow persona, audiences were captivated by the couple’s ability to get through the good and the bad—at home and in business.…
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How To Be a 'Good' Guy? Assume Women Are Liars
Damon Young writes: After breaking the seal, they’ve had sex at least once a week for the last three or four months. Apparently, she had feelings for him for some time. And, although she knows the feelings aren’t reciprocated—a fact he made very blunt after they slept together the first time so she wouldn’t get “the…
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Why Terrorists Love Profiling
The Rev. Al Sharpton argues at the Huffington Post that the controversial practice actually helps those who would do harm to America. In the 1990s, National Action Network and I worked on a case with the late Johnnie Cochran where we introduced the term racial profiling into America’s lexicon. Four young Black and Latino men…
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Am I Related to Basquiat?
(The Root) — Many of our readers wonder if they have famous kin. This week’s advice is especially useful to people of Haitian descent who are trying to trace their forebears, whether those kin are well-known or simply well-loved. “Hi, I represent the music rock band the Penelopes. Our band’s lead singer, Axel Basquiat, was born and raised…
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Boston-Bombing Coverage and Invisible Whiteness
Colorlines‘ Akiba Solomon says that journalists need to improve their approach, starting with the language they use when doing their jobs. Watching professional broadcast journalists attempt to compete with social media hobbyists for any nugget of information during last week’s manhunt for suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, many us felt a familiar dread. We…
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Did We Overreact to Boston Bombings?
(The Root) — If exterminating tens of thousands of people with a nuclear suitcase bomb would rate a 10 on the scale of terrorist acts, the slaughter of more than 3,000 innocent people on Sept. 11 might rank as an 8, and the Oklahoma City explosion that claimed 168 lives might come in at a…
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Sex Doesn't Define Me as a Woman
Clutch magazine’s Jamilah Lemieux says that she hopes others can adopt a similarly relaxed perspective when it comes to physical intimacy. … Sex has never been a source of agony for me in the way I’ve seen it be for some other women. I either wanted to sleep with someone or I didn’t; in situations…
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Quote of the Day: Whitney Young Jr.
Read more about Whitney Young Jr. here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter.
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