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The Weight of Words: New Course Tackles Writers’ Impact on Black History
Literature—regardless of how it is delivered, whether in song, sermon, novel, short story, poem or essay—has the unique ability to inform, to uplift, and to shape our opinions and worldviews. At least that’s how James Basker, the Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College at Columbia University, sees it. It’s a crucial point and…
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Fits the Description: How Checking a Parking Meter Led to a Charge of Bank Robbery
It was the walk to the car to check the meter and to make sure he didn’t get a ticket that ultimately led to film and TV producer Charles Belk’s six-hour ordeal with police in Beverly Hills, Calif., which included being treated as a suspect in a bank robbery. According to Belk, who took to…
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Who Was the Real Dido Elizabeth Belle?
Editor’s note: This column was originally published on May 5. Belle, the movie based on the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, will be released on DVD on Tuesday and is available now as a digital download on Amazon.com. For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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I’m Homeschooling My Son Because My House Is the Only Place Where He’s Not Seen As Dangerous
It’s back-to-school season. However, in our family, we won’t be going back anywhere. We have chosen to educate at home. Now, hold on one minute before you judge. Believe me, I never thought I would be one of “those moms.” Let me explain how and why I have chosen this unlikely route and why I…
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8 of the Youngest Black College Graduates You Should Know
College is often seen as the beginning of a young person’s path into adulthood, but apparently these eight young black geniuses couldn’t wait. Some of these young college graduates began taking classes before they were legally able to drive. While hitting the books in law, medicine and science, these young graduates have broken records. 1.…
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2 Reporters Covering Ferguson Protests Describe Detainment
Washington Post’s Lowery Tweets He “Can’t Shake Anger” “The Huffington Post’s Ryan J. Reilly and the Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery were arrested Wednesday while covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri surrounding the death of unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown, who was shot by a police officer last week,” the Huffington Post reported Wednesday. “The…
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The Secret Fight of the Black-Girl Nerds
The life of a “nerd” typically involves a certain amount of loneliness and other social challenges. Try being a black girl on top of that. Sure, mainstream culture has its ways of portraying nerd-dom as trendy and cool (hello, The Big Bang Theory), but this treatment is generally reserved for men … most often white…
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These 31 Up-and-Coming Artists Are Defining a New Era of Music
With music being downloaded, streamed, watched on YouTube or at a music festival, spun at the club and played on vinyl, the millennial generation has come of age at a time when there are more ways than ever to experience the soundtrack of their lives. And a budding group of innovative, young black artists are…
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Obama’s US-Africa Leaders Summit Aims to Strengthen Ties
Black people who look to defend President Barack Obama against other black people who claim he hasn’t done anything particularly “black” as president have had plenty of ammunition this week and will have more the next. The first black president, the son of an African immigrant, is also the first to convene a U.S.-Africa Leaders…
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Aide: White House Taking Impeachment Threat Seriously
The Obama administration is not discounting the possibility that House Republicans could pursue impeachment of the president, Senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer told reporters Friday, the Associated Press reports. “I saw a poll today that had a huge portion of the Republican Party base saying they supported impeaching the president. A lot of people…