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Racism in Asian Countries and Fear of the Black Male
“Now the Chinese are talking s—t about us, too?” My friend Keba semiwhispered, wide-eyed, leaning into her MacBook Pro. We were sitting side by side in the café, and she had just complained about how much time Facebook was sucking. “What happened?” I asked without turning away from my screen, brow wrinkled, frustrated from my…
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Racist Seeking Racist: How the Internet Helped Create Dylann Roof
Before accused South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof one year ago walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where parishioners welcomed him into their Bible study, he was “locked in his room looking up bad stuff on his computer,” Paige Mann, Roof’s former stepmother, told Time. “Something on the computer drew him in—this internet evil.” Roof…
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Weiner: The Saddest Sex Scandal of Them All
With a name like Anthony Weiner, a sex scandal was bound to happen. At least that was the reaction of most Americans to the Weiner sex debacle in 2011 when New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner came to national attention as the center of America’s first social media sex scandal. However, in the new Sundance…
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It Finally Happened: Donald Trump Jumped the Shark
You heard it here first: Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has officially jumped the shark. Or, if you want to put it in more modern terms, his political campaign has “pulled a Richonne” or “put Cookie in a cage.” No matter how you put it, when Trump loses to Hillary Clinton in the November election, we…
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#PulseTragedy: Homophobic Blood-Donation Ban Puts Lives at Risk
After the terrorist attack at Orlando, Fla.’s Pulse nightclub Sunday morning, media outlets encouraged those living in Florida to donate blood. But when federal policy prohibits this from happening, then no matter how much we can rightfully blame Omar Mateen for these heinous acts of violence, we can also place some blame on institutions like…
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Muhammad Ali Was Media Gift That Kept on Giving
“The old white sportswriters said the flicking, shying kid with the silly doggerel would get knocked into the ringside seats with one punch,” Sally Jenkins wrote Saturday for the Washington Post. “It was 1964, and Cassius Clay hadn’t yet butterflied into the mythic champion Muhammad Ali. He was still incubating in a sweltering Miami Beach…
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Black Students Nearly 4 Times as Likely to Be Suspended: Report
Black students are almost four times as likely as white students to receive one or more out-of-school suspensions, new federal data released on Tuesday shows (pdf), underlining the grave disparity that still exists within the U.S. education system. The 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection survey looked at 16,758 school districts, encompassing 95,507 schools and 50,035,744…