Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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Blacks Lose Majority in Harlem
The New York Times has an interesting article today on the population shift in Harlem For nearly a century, Harlem has been synonymous with black urban America. Given its magnetic and growing appeal to younger black professionals and its historic residential enclaves and cultural institutions, the neighborhood’s reputation as the capital of black America seems…
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Morgan Freeman's Voice Solves Everything
Is there anything Morgan Freeman’s voice can’t do? CBS doesn’t think so and have tapped Freeman to replace Walter Cronkite’s Evening News voiceover intro Nearly six months after his death, Walter Cronkite’s voice is leaving the “CBS Evening News.” The CBS News legend recorded a voiceover introducing current anchor Katie Couric when she started on…
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Does Beyonce Support Terror?
Does Beyonce Knowles support terror? Probably not, but she does support the embiggening of her bank account and thus, took the pretty pennies offered by Hannibal Khadafy, son of Libyan dictator, Moammar. So reporteth the New York Post Beyoncé performed five songs in a sexy black leotard at the Nikki Beach club on St. Barts…
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Bomber's Dad Father of the Year?
Over on The American Prospect, Adam Serwer has taken a bit of exception with Jay Nordlinger of the National Review and his assertion that Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, father of the Christmas Day bomber, is a candidate for father of the year. Serwer’s less ticked about the assertion than the person/persons calling for it Of course,…
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NEWS STAND: Ebony’s Eunice Johnson Dies, Kenya Ousts Jamaican Cleric
Ebony’s Eunice Johnson DiesEunice Johnson, the woman who stood alongside John H. Johnson, has died. Mrs. Johnson, who was in her 90s, worked with her husband to build Negro Digest, Jet, and Ebony into the most influential black publications in the post-World War II period. She was instrumental in developing the Ebony Fashion Fair, which…
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How Warren Washington Is Solving the Puzzle of Climate Change
For Warren Washington, a lifetime of researching the heavens began with a relatively simple question posed by a high school chemistry teacher: Why are egg yolks yellow? “Instead of explaining the answer,” recalled Washington, “she asked me to find out, which stimulated me. The answer lay in their diet. I looked up what chickens ate,…
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Headlines for 2010: Part II
The year 2010 is just a few days old, but already promises to be full of drama. Here are my predictions for the political headlines of the year to come. If they don’t come true, don’t hate! READ PREDICTIONS 1-5 HERE. 6. The American Backlash Abroad The “aughts” were defined by a radical restructuring of…
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BOMB THE ROOT: The Evelyne Trouillot Interview
Little known in the United States outside of academic circles, Evelyne Trouillot is one of Haiti’s most celebrated intellectual thinkers. A prolific writer, Trouillot has authored numerous children’s books, a collection of poetry and a collection of short stories, numerous plays, two novels, and countless essays and articles in both the mainstream and academic press.…
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Celebrating Miles Davis
PARIS—Jazz has always had more respect as an art form in Europe than in its home country, where appreciation too often gets tangled in the politics of race. We Want Miles: Jazz Face to Face With Its Legend is an extensive exhibition on the life and work of legendary Miles Davis at the Cité de…
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Photo: The Third State Dinner Crasher
The Secret Service has confirmed a third party crashed the White House State Dinner, but is keeping mum on the details of their investigation. Sources close to the situation say the third crasher was Carlos Allen, a party promoter from DC. From The Washington Post: But a congressional source, who was granted anonymity to speak…