YouTuber Beef Turns Fatal in Horrifying Vegas Scene And It Was All Caught on Video
LA’s Black Mayor’s Warning of Trump’s Scary Plans For The City Demands Utmost Attention
Sherri Shepherd Finally Breaks Her Silence on Her Drama With Nia Long
Three Black Women Have Been Found Dead This Year in New England, Here’s Why Some Fear a Serial Killer is At Large
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In American Schools, Racial Learning Gap Persists
This story on education in Wednesday’s New York Times ought to scare the pants off all the nincompoops who believe we’ve arrived in post-racial America: The latest scores were especially disappointing because score gaps between white and minority students did not diminish at all since the last time the math test was administered, in 2007.…
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The 'Wait is Ova'
The “Wait is Ova Nov. 23.” That is what was announced on Rihanna’s official Web site and Twitter page. What this actually means can be left up to one’s own imagination. Whether or not she’ll be releasing a new album or a single is unknown. But I am sure that all of the Rihanna supporters/ fans…
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NPR Doesn't Care About Black Music, Sorta
In a blog posted originally published on Slate, Jody Rosen details the way that liberal bastion NPR has less than warm and fuzzy feelings for Black music: In August, National Public Radio’s flagship music program All Songs Considered published “The Best Music of 2009 (So Far),” a rundown of the top 30 songs and albums…
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The Definition of Authentic
Even white girls are getting in on the action! Like Eboni, I have yet to see comedian Chris Rock’s documentary, “Good Hair,” because (a) it’s a recession and I’d rather put a 10 spot on the light bill and (b) I’ve already spent probably a quarter of my life in the salon and can’t waste…
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Beat The (Black) Press: White House Launches E-Magazine
The Obama administration today released the first edition of White House Wire, a special newsletter aimed at the black community. Aggregating recent news such as UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s speech at Howard University Law School, Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s trip to Chicago to address youth violence, the naming of a…
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The Small, Hot Argument Across Hip-Hop's Mini-Generation Gap
Ten years ago, I wrote a piece on hip-hop nostalgia. I was against it. Mainly I was mad that the global indie hip-hop underground—of which I had counted myself a die-hard member, to which I had given my ‘tween, teen and especially my early adult years to—was beginning to turn on itself. By 1999, it…
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Emperor Jones and His Lazy Negroes
There’s a bit of controversy brewing in New York City right now. The Emperor Jones is back. Eugene O’Neill’s 1920 play about a black convicted murderer who escapes to a Caribbean island and poses as an emperor. He’s able to do so because the “primitives” are so full of violence, ignorance and superstition they’d believe…
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Don't Call It a Comeback: Egypt in Row Over Artificial Virginity Device
An artificial virginity simulator—which claims to provide an ‘authentic’ wedding night experience—has many in Egypt fired up. Just listen (with the understanding that some of the language is quite descriptive).
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94 Years Later, S. Carolina Pardons Two Death Row Inmates
It’s never too late for justice. Such is the case for Thomas and Meeks Griffin, former landowners—and relatives of radio jock Tom Joyner—who were put to death in 1913 for the murder of John Lewis, a wealthy white landowner. Wednesday, both men were unanimously pardoned posthumously by the state of South Carolina, a first. From…
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Who Doesn't 'Swastika' Obama?
According to NewsOne, someone apparently ‘swastikas’ Obama and felt the need to carve that 10×10 foot message into a Lakeville, Massachusetts golf course. We can assume this creativity is some attempt at Obama hate, but we can’t for the life of us figure it out. I swastika Obama? Are the Neo-Nazi supporting the claim that…