Should Black Americans Care That Trump Is Targeting African Nations For Deportation After Years of Africans Being So Damn Disrespectful To Us?
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
Arkansas Deputy Gets His Karma After Racist Video Spreads Online
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Animated Black TV or Real Black TV – Which is more Profitable?
This may not be incredible news, but it’s certainly worthy news. Fox has ordered two seasons of The Cleveland Show. Mike Henry’s brainchild is a spin-off of The Family Guy. The Cleveland Show will follow the animated Cleveland Brown to Virginia where he settles down with a high school sweetheart and a collage of other…
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Remembering Mama
“Mama knew love like the back roads, used to fall asleep daily in her work clothes.” I love that line from Anthony Hamilton’s song, “Mama Knew Love,” because it’s dead-on in describing the extraordinary strength of mothers. But as I continue into my own adulthood, I also realize that the line hints to the extreme…
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Forget Cashing Cans, I'm Selling Sperm
On an episode of “30 Rock,” Tina Faye’s character Liz Lemon jokingly mentioned that her boyfriend’s family treated sperm banks like an ATM. As ridiculous as that sounds in practice that may be a frame of mind many are now suddenly embracing. While clothing and can good donations are on the decline, donations of the…
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Tuesday's Headlines
WP: DC Votes to Recognize Other States’ Same-Sex Marriages RD: Cinco de Mayo: Discovering more about Blacks and Mexicans AJE: Judges Reject Former Liberian President’s Request for War Crimes Acquittal BET: School Bus Driver Accused of Punching Student NO: Oprah, KFC Team Up to Give Away Chicken HP: Race and Obama: 390 Years Minus 100…
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Marion Jones, Role Model?
The silences in Marion Jones first public speech since she was released from prison last fall were as percussive as the words she actually spoke. Since serving six months for perjury after being convicted of fraud and the use of performance enhancing drugs, the disgraced Olympian has been interviewed by Oprah and Good Morning America’s…
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D for Detroit
Detroiters go to the polls Tuesday to elect a mayor to finish out Kwame Kilpatrick’s unfinished second term—and then they’ll get ready to do it all over again. The prize for the winner is a city in distress. Crime is up; schools are down; and unemployment is at 20 percent. Last year, the Detroit Lions…
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Creating in the Shadows: A Talk with Nelson George
“I identify more with Nick Carraway now than I did when I was younger,” Nelson George says about the observant character from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Carraway captured George’s attention when he was a nerdy adolescent growing up in Queens, a fact he recalls in his new memoir City Kid, which chronicles his…
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A Museum of African-American History
If the Mall in Washington, D.C., is the “nation’s lawn,” then the institutions that line it must be the national lawn ornaments. It is a motley architectural collection, ranging from standouts such as John Russell Pope’s National Gallery of Art and I.M. Pei’s East Building to the distinctly pedestrian museums housing natural history, American history,…
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Eye on the Ball
The first round of the NBA playoffs did little to dispel the notion that the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cleveland Cavaliers are fated to meet in the NBA finals next month. But if you missed the games of the last two weeks, you might not be a big fan after all. The drama and…
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Condi Will Even Spin a 4th Grader
This is just sad. It wasn’t enough for Condi spin her torture-is-legal mess for Stanford students last week. Now she’s lying to grade-schoolers, too. Last week, as Cenk Uygur reported on his The Young Turks show and HUFFPO, Rice told a group of Stanford students that waterboarding wasn’t illegal “by definition” because the president signed…