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Black Friday: A Special Rite of Passage With My Black Family
I’m not always the fondest of turkey, but I always look forward to shopping on Black Friday. Although the day after Thanksgiving is often reduced to “capitalist consumption for the un-woke masses,” it has become a favorite family tradition of time spent with two women I love, my mom and aunt. It always includes a…
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New York Jets Sign Nat King Cole's Grandson Wyatt Ray to Practice Squad
The New York Jets signed Wyatt Ray to its practice squad this week. Ray is the 23-year-old grandson of the late entertainment pioneer Nat King Cole and nephew of the Grammy Award-winning chanteuse Natalie Cole. Ray’s mother Casey and aunt Timolin are twin younger sisters of the legendary singer. According to the Associated Press, the…
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How a Black Family Talks About Impeachment During Thanksgiving
Whoever said politics don’t belong at the dinner table has never been to a black Thanksgiving. With food, family and maybe a sip of something, very few topics are out of bounds at my Aunt Sara’s house. Like my mom, Aunt Sara is from Tuskegee, Ala. A child of the civil rights movement, her activism…
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Mo Money, Mo Problems: Life Expectancy Rates in the US Drop for the 3rd Consecutive Year
According to a new report, life expectancy rates in the United States have dropped for the third consecutive year. The report was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and cites the escalation of suicide, drug overdoses, liver disease, and dozens of other causes as contributing factors, per the Washington Post: Despite spending…
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Family Members, Ranked
As Black Thanksgiving quickly approaches, it may be necessary for some people who are unfamiliar with this holiday to understand black genealogy. In black culture, the family dynamic is not dictated by genetics, DNA or blood. Instead, much like race, “family” is a social construct. To help our readers understand this subject, we assembled a…
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Chilling Video Shows What a Young Michigan Woman Saw Just Moments Before Her Boyfriend Allegedly Shot Her
You may not know India Mackey (in fact, chances are you don’t), but you know exactly what the young Michigan woman saw in the moments before her death. We know because she filmed it: She, in the driver’s seat of her boyfriend’s van on Nov. 19, her phone trained on her 18-year-old boyfriend, Kevin Dixon,…
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Akhnaten: A Revolutionary King Gets an Equally Innovative Opera
It’s strangely fitting that one of history’s earliest renegades has been immortalized with an opera that also defies convention—and indeed, for those unfamiliar with the music of Philip Glass, the operative word some may use to describe his opera Akhnaten might be “strange.” For the genre’s purists, the Metropolitan Opera’s production of his now 35-year-old…
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8 Things to Keep in Mind if You Are the Woketep in Your Family at Thanksgiving
The heads of woketeps must be exploding right about now: T.I. is out here being castigated expeditiously on Red Table Talk over something that every self-respecting man believes in: He is responsible for protecting his daughters from both themselves and indignity. What the hell is everybody upset about? All of these black people are standing…
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The Cast and Crew of Queen & Slim on Black Love Being 'An Act of Resistance, Protest and Resilience'
Beyond the political allegory of two black people going on the run after killing a cop, Queen & Slim is a love story. Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) have bounties on their heads for the crime they’ve committed and throughout all of their trials and tribulations, they find a special sense of connection…