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Jet Covered a Lesbian Wedding in 1970?
Buzzfeed has uncovered a piece of marriage-equality history: a same-sex wedding from 1970. Bonus: the women — Edna Knowles and Peaches Stevens — were both black, and the nuptials were covered by none other than historic African-American publication Jet magazine. Granted, this wasn’t the usual celebratory wedding profile as much as it was a news…
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Sh-t Bougie Black People Secretly Love on TV
That BBP (Bougie Black People) are in love² with the holy trinity of Black reality television shows (Real Housewives of Atlanta, Basketball Wives, Love and Hip-Hop) is perhaps the BBP’s worst-kept secret. For the uninitiated, each show revolves around a group of extremely well-coiffed 25-to-45-year-old women who have weekly water-throwing battles to help stay in shape.…
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Bill Gates Offers Grant to Build a Better Condom
As Bill Gates put the word out to the entire world that his foundation was looking to issue a startup grant to produce “the next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure” and promotes “regular use,” the proprietors of the minority-owned bcondoms and B Holding Group, LLC, on Tuesday expressed a desire to open…
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Gay Marriage's Johnny Come-Latelies
The recent interest in the fight for marriage equality by politicians, celebrities and pop culture icons is disingenuous, to say the least. (Smirnoff, anyone?) Devona Walker explains why at The Burton Wire. Read More: http://theburtonwire.com/2013/03/28/politics/gay-marriage-johnny-come-latelys-political-expediency-at-its-finest/ TheBurtonWire.com is the premiere online destination for news, informed opinion and culture of the African Diaspora (including black populations in…
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Mandela Back in Hospital With Lung Infection
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized for the third time in four months, the New York Times reports. The 94-year-old is suffering from a recurring lung infection, according to a statement released by President Jacob Zuma, who asked people around the world to pray for the anti-apartheid icon: It was the third…
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Rwanda: Geothermal Drilling to Begin at Karisimbi Volcano
Chinese contractors and a local Rwandan firm will work together on a $27 million (US) project to help Rwanda improve domestic accessibility to energy. Read More: http://theburtonwire.com/2013/03/28/news/rwanda-geothermal-drilling-to-begin-at-karisimbi-volcano/ TheBurtonWire.com is the premiere online destination for news, informed opinion and culture of the African Diaspora (including black populations in Latin and South America).
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Why Black Girls Are From the Future
Clutch magazine‘s Evette Dionne traces the origins of the #BlackGirlsAreFromTheFuture hashtag and explains why it has caught on as a digital movement. The hashtag garnered steam on Twitter and has since connected with black women on Tumblr and Facebook. The rapid growth of #BlackGirlsAreFromTheFuture is not coincidental because it easily connects to women within our…
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Are You Ready to Learn About Brian McKnight?
(The Root) — Brian McKnight is not the romantic love-song writer many people might expect. The silky-voiced singer-songwriter behind hits like “One Last Cry” and “Anytime” is also the same man behind 2012’s viral “adult” song “If You’re Ready to Learn.” McKnight said the lyrics to the shocker instructing a woman on how her “p—sy…
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I'm Taken but Want to Get Back With My Ex
(The Root) — “My ex is still in my life even though we’ve been apart since 2009; we dated for a few months. We haven’t seen each other in four years and talk every day, even though I’m taken (and unhappy) and he’s single. We never had sex during the time we dated. There are…
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Why Football Supports Gay Marriage
In a piece for USA Today, Domonique Foxworth, president of the NFL Players Association, says that it would be in the best interests of all Americans for the Supreme Court to strike down discriminatory legislation that denies gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. And he argues that the tradition of athletes means standing…
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