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Are Poor Black Americans Screwed?
(The Root) — Everywhere I go I hear middle-class African Americans voice what I now call “the worry.” One successful woman said to me, “We’re screwed, aren’t we?” A public intellectual commented to me, “I fear that a third of our people are toast!” A concerned black minister remarked, “We cannot settle for leaving so…
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Aisha Tyler's 10 Favorite Funny Women
(The Root) — There’s no better time than Women’s History Month to celebrate the best funny ladies, past and present. To honor the women in her business, blerd queen, author and Archer star Aisha Tyler gave us — in her own words — her 10 favorite female comedians. Do you agree?
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Sequestration and the Right-Wing Conspiracy to End Equality
The cruel reality is that those who can least afford it will bear the brunt of the impending social experiment, Imara Jones writes at Colorlines. The chaos set to be unleashed over the next month through the implementation of sequestration budget cuts beginning today is not an accident. For a large part of the Republican…
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Ex-FAMU Band Members Charged With Manslaughter
Twelve former members of the famed Florida A&M marching band face charges of manslaughter in the 2011 hazing death of drum major Robert Champion, prosecutors announced on Monday. Twenty-six-year-old Champion died in November 2011 after enduring a post-football-game ritual conducted by other band members on a bus. Two of the defendants are newly charged, and…
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Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' Bobby Rogers Dies
Singer Bobby Rogers, who was a member of the hit Motown group Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, died Sunday morning in his Southfield, Mich., home at age 73, the Urban Daily reports. Along with Robinson, Claudette Rogers, Pete Moore and Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers founded the group in 1956, and soon they had a series…
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Is La Toya Using the Jackson Kids?
A New York Post report that La Toya Jackson has signed brother Michael’s three children to her talent agency (making them her only clients) with the hopes of landing a deal for a reality series has some wondering whether she’s acting as a loving aunt or as an opportunist hoping to cash in on Prince’s,…
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Long Lines, High Turnout and Dedication to Vote, Kenya-Style
We know what a tight national election with high enthusiasm and willingness to brave long lines looks like here in the United States. Monday’s Washington Post has a peek at what it looks like in Kenya, where millions voted in national elections Monday, with turnout predicted to be some of the highest in the country’s…
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More Work, Less Money: The 20-Something Work World
Many in their early 20s feel tethered to their work world and earn less than their parents did at their age, writes New York Times contributor Teddy Wayne. “If I’m not at the office, I’m always on my BlackBerry,” said Casey McIntyre, 28, a book publicist in New York. “I never feel like I’m totally checked…
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6 of Hip-Hop's Least Likely Supporters
(The Root) — With the debate raging over gun control, the folks behind creative enterprises from video games to Hollywood are facing criticism regarding their potentially negative influence on impressionable Americans. Music is not immune. Hip-hop has long been one of conservative America’s favorite punching bags, with Republicans and Democrats alike criticizing the genre for…
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'Scandal' Versus 'House of Cards'
When Scandal airs weekly on ABC, it’s a Twitter explosion. Politics and outlandish drama run together deliciously on the show. On the other hand, New Yorker writer Emily Nussbaum writes, Netflix’s House of Cards, also about politics, is much darker — and suffers because of it. Fincher’s Washington is full of eerie imagery, such as…
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