Everything to Know About Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat on His 65th Birthday
Navy SEALs Who Harassed Black Teammate With Racist ‘Slave’ and ‘Monkey’ Memes Finally ‘Disciplined’
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Judge of Characters: Can White People Do Black Hair?
Perhaps the proper question is, can “transracial” mascot Rachel Dolezal do black hair? Well, she does, and has been doing so for a while; she acknowledged in her book, In Full Color, that she would do hair in college as a side hustle. That hustle has grown into a full-on kitchen-beautician business, and Dolezal is…
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Watch: A Chef Who Grew From the Concrete Jungle
A passion for food led Lionel Tate on a journey to find out what real manhood meant. Tate is the owner of Tasty Tate’s Kitchen, an Instagram-based restaurant that has given Tate a whole new lease on life. Tate says he thought he would gangbang for the rest of his life when he was 14…
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Brittney Cooper Talks Beyoncé, White Feminists and Black Women’s Oh-So-Eloquent Rage
The anger of black girls is potent. And given what we deal with, it’s sometimes masked. Or internalized and regurgitated in harmful ways. But Brittney Cooper—Professor Crunk to you, sir— is here to tell y’all all about it. Her book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower is about how we can use rage to…
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Watch: Embracing the Otherness With Unreal’s Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman is an other. He’s a biracial, queer man who was adopted and raised in a teeny-tiny town in Alberta, Canada, where he was the only person of color. So yeah, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman stood out. “I was the other. I was different than everybody else around me and I was told what I was,”…
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Watch: Denzel Washington Raps His Favorite Cardi B Song
When you get the opportunity to chat with Denzel Washington, you take it. The legendary actor is starring in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, a Broadway revival directed by another legend, George C. Wolfe. And because of this Broadway blessing, Denzel is doing press rounds. As Denzel made his way around the room, smiling the…
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Watch: Grown-ish’s Trevor Jackson Speaks in Emoji
Trevor Jackson lives with an incredible amount of intention. From the way he styles his hair (yes, the rat tail is very deliberate) to his choice of tattooing only the left half of his body for balance, the 21-year-old actor-singer-grilled-cheese enthusiast knows what he wants and pulls no punches. (By the way, the perfect grilled…
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Boy, You Done Messed Up
Editor’s note: This is part 6 of a multipart series. Catch up with part 1 , part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5. You can always tell when a man knows he fucked up. He will apologize. He will try to make it right. He will try humor, flirting, bribes and gifts—anything that…
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Watch: To Understand How Harmful Juvenile Incarceration Is, Listen to This Poem
In a spoken-word poem, Dwayne Betts details the emotional impacts of juvenile incarceration. In partnership with WNYC Studios, we present Caught. #CaughtPodcast
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Will Trump-Friendly Sinclair Face Consequences for ‘Fake Stories’ Script?
Journalism Groups Say Broadcaster Crossed Line ICE Seizes Memphis Reporter as Undocumented U.S. to Become ‘Minority White’ in 2045 Lest the Media Forget the Other Civil Rights Leaders Greg Moore ‘Angry’ Over Plight of Denver Post BuzzFeed Headline Led to Trump Tweet, Critic Says More Coverage Given Alleged Violence by Muslims Gaza Journalist Fatally Shot…
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Watch: Bill Cosby’s Spokesman Shames Topless Protester
On Monday a topless protester hopped a barricade at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial in Norristown, Pa. The protester, Nicolle Rochelle—who is a former actor on The Cosby Show—told reporters that she wanted to make Cosby uncomfortable because “that is exactly what he has been doing for decades to women.” But that message was missed…