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Don Cheadle Talks Obama Hopes, 'Django' Toys
(The Root) — Don Cheadle and crew return tonight at 10 p.m. ET in the second-season premiere of House of Lies on Showtime. The show, which features Cheadle’s slick-talking character Marty Kaan as the head of a management-consultant firm, also stars Glynn Turman as his dad, Donis Leonard Jr. as his son and Josh Lawson…
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MHP: Slow Down, Chris Christie
As New Jersey continues to clean up its coastline in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the state’s Gov. Chris Christie has begun gathering steam as a possible GOP presidential candidate in 2016. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry is impressed with his disaster-relief advocacy strides; however, she points out, Christie has left his home state in the…
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Indian Police Arrest 7 Men in New Gang Rape
On Sunday, police in the Northern state of Punjab, India, said they have arrested seven men for the gang rape of a woman on a bus. This crime follows a similar sexual assault of another young woman in New Delhi who was gang-raped by a group of men on a bus, including the driver, and…
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Clinton Visits Haiti for Quake Anniversary
On Saturday, Haitian President Michel Martelly and former U.S. President Bill Clinton marked the third anniversary of Haiti’s disastrous earthquake with a quiet ceremony of wreath-laying, according to the Daily News. While urging locals to remember the victims of the natural disaster, Martelly also thanked the international countries who lent support in the aftermath of…
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Former Egyptian President Mubarak Gets Retrial
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, currently serving a life term in prison, will receive a retrial. Al Jazeera reports that this opportunity may give the dictator, who was found guilty last year in the deaths of protestors in 2011, a chance at a verdict of not guilty. No date has been set for the start…
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BET Honors 2013: Black Celebs Reflect on MLK
With other networks offering the likes of Basketball Wives, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Best Funeral Ever and the upcoming and already boycotted All My Babies’ Mamas, BET’s programming is not currently at the center of criticism for negative portrayals of the black community. And for at least one night a year since 2008,…
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BET Honors 2013: Black Celebs Reflect on MLK
With other networks offering the likes of Basketball Wives, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Best Funeral Ever and the upcoming and already boycotted All My Babies’ Mamas, BET’s programming is not currently at the center of criticism for negative portrayals of the black community. And for at least one night a year since 2008,…
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The Nice — and Black — Guy Gets the Girl
(The Root) — I’m really proud of Lena Dunham. No, we’re not friends in real life, and, no, we don’t even follow each other on Twitter. But if one can feel a certain delight, then disappointment, empathy and finally pride in a stranger’s work, then that’s exactly how I feel about the 26-year-old writer-director-actress as…
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Beware of Extremist Gun Talk
In the midst of the conversation raging about gun control and the possible renewal of an assault-weapons ban, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow warns Americans to pay careful attention to the radical language some extremists are using. These extremists make sensible, reasonable gun control hard to discuss, let alone achieve in this country,…
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Slavery Films Reflect Our New Views
As critics tussle over what Django Unchained and Lincoln say about black people’s history in America, Colorlines contributor Dexter Gabriel writes that the depictions are more a reflection of how African Americans see ourselves in this day and age. Hollywood’s turning point came with the social upheavals of the 1960s. As early as 1946, African Americans launched…
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