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Denzel Washington on Sustaining a 35-Year Marriage: 'I Do What I'm Told and Keep My Mouth Shut!'
Uncle Denzel has been married to his wife Pauletta for 35 years. Hot damn, they barely do it like that anymore, so how do he and Pauletta do it? “I do what I’m told. I keep my mouth shut,” he joked to People magazine. Smart man. But in all seriousness, Denzel admitted that there are…
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Mareena Robinson Snowden Is The 1st Black Woman to Earn a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering From MIT
Mareena Robinson Snowden became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when she crossed the stage at her graduation on June 8. Provocatively, a career in STEM wasn’t always something Snowden was interested in. “Engineering definitely was not something I had a passion for at…
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How the Republican Party Became The Party of Racism
Here’s a joke: What’s the difference between a Klan rally and a Republican Convention? Answer: The dress code. Here’s another one: How white is the Republican Party? According to Pew Research, 83 percent of the registered voters who identify as Republican are non-Hispanic whites. The Republican Party is whiter than Tilda Swinton riding a polar…
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#PermitPatty Reported a 13-Year-Old Selling Hot Dogs. Instead of Shutting Him Down, the City Helped Him Get His Permit
Not today, Satan. Or in this case, not today #PermitPatty. An old sourpuss who was trying to kill a Minneapolis’ teen entrepreneurial spirit did not prosper after the city rallied together to get him the proper permit to continue is business. Jaequan Faulkner had been cooking hot dogs outside his home, selling them to raise…
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Black Bosses Making Moves with VSB and The Glow Up!
On Thursday evening, The Root, Very Smart Brothas and The Glow Up joined forces for a panel in Washington, D.C. The evening’s theme? Boss moves. After all, bossing ain’t easy. The Long View Gallery was standing room only—come through, D.C.! Imagine a sea of beautiful black people joined together to talk about how one can essentially…
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A Running List of Things Straight Men Can’t and Shouldn’t Do Because It’ll Make Us Gay
Running List of Things Straight Men Can’t and Shouldn’t Do Because It’ll Make Us Gay
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Judge of Characters: Does Justice Have a Shelf Life?
Here’s the thing about justice: it’s rare that people of color ever get to see it in action because it usually doesn’t work in our favor. What’s even more frustrating and disheartening is when said justice comes over 60 years later and everyone involved, but one person, is dead. Such may be the case for…
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NFL Takes Page Out of Trump's Russia Playbook, Moonwalks Back on National Anthem Policy
Despite the fact that some 70 percent of its players are African American, the National Football League is a conglomerate owned by white men that markets itself to white men. So it was no surprise when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and plantation league owners ran out of the tunnel all hyped up to appease their…
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That Time in High School That I Didn't Get Hired at McDonald's
I don’t know about you, but where I lived in the mid-90s, there weren’t many places for a high schooler to get a job, or so I thought, anyway. Close to me was the world’s most perseverant Hardee’s of all time, McDonald’s, a Bruno’s and a Winn-Dixie, the last two both grocery stores. Well, it…