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The Walking Jeb: How Jeb Bush’s Campaign Has Become the Living Dead
One of the best things about adult Halloween is that you have no pretense about what you’re really dressing up for. As a kid, it really mattered that you looked like Lando Calrissian or Donatello or a witch. As an adult, you know it’s all for fun, you’re not fooling anyone, and we all know you aren’t…
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Can We Stop Pretending That Ben Carson Is Running for President?
There was a time when running for president was actually a money-losing venture. In fact, over the last 30 or so years, most presidential candidates (including some who actually won) ended up with tremendous debts after the campaign. Being in the red during and after a campaign was so common that paying off a former…
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Muslim Boy Whose Homemade Clock Led to His Arrest Is Leaving the US
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim boy who grabbed national headlines after he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to his Irving, Texas, high school, will be moving to the Middle East to attend school. According to the Associated Press, Ahmed’s family has accepted an offer from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community…
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A Group of News Editors Promised These Diversity Goals and Failed; Some Say They’ll Likely Fail Again
Ready to Overcome Lack of Commitment, Financial Crises? Who dropped the ball? And are there still signs of hope? In 1978, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, as it was then known, challenged the newspaper industry to match in its newsrooms the percentage of people of color in the general population by 2000 or sooner.…
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Lamar Odom’s Suspected Overdose Is Not an Episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Basketball fans around the world are anxiously awaiting more information about the condition of beloved former Los Angeles Laker Lamar Odom, who reportedly overdosed Tuesday afternoon at Love Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada. But all mainstream media seem to be concerned with, when not busy making the story as tawdry and sensationalistic as possible, are…
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Are You Frustrated With the Word ‘Female’?
Female, a word that seemingly has been a part of our everyday vernacular since forever, is the latest hot-button topic in the war regarding what you can and cannot say. Earlier this year, Jezebel’s Kara Brown singled out the problem with calling women “females,” unpacking how the term made her feel. Then, most recently on MTV’s…
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Black Fox News Staffers Sound Off About 'Difficult' Work Environment
Network Blasts Observation by Former NABJ President “African-American Fox News staffers find it ‘very difficult’ to work at the network, former president of the National Association of Black Journalists Bob Butler told TheWrap on Thursday,” Jordan Charlton reported for TheWrap.com. ” ‘I’ve talked to some folks who work there and it’s very difficult, especially when…
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How a Car’s Breakdown Led to an App Breakthrough
We’ve all been there. We’re in a foreign place and something goes wrong with our car, and we’re stuck searching for a way to fix it before any further issue can arise—without being half extorted for our money for an emergency repair. Well, now there’s an app for that. GreaseMonkey Mobile LLC is the brainchild of Stephan…
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The Best Argument For Why Morehouse And HBCUs Matter You'll Ever Read
One of my good friends from college is a teacher in Chicago. One particular student of hers has begun the college search and in her attempts to convince him to attend Morehouse College, or at least an HBCU, she reached out to myself, and three of my best friends – all of us Morehouse College…