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Netflix’s Blackface Algorithm Is White Nonsense, Condensed
Before we begin, please allow me to plainly state that no one here is “outraged.” When talking about whiteness’ infinite blindspot as it relates to race in America, it is easy to paint valid criticism as hyperbolic indignation and tag it as an example of the pervasive “call-out culture,” thereby diminishing it. No, dear reader,…
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Video: Librarian Calls Cops on Student for Brazen Attempt at #StudyingWhileBlack [Updated]
Updated: 10/24/2018, 8:59 a.m. ET: The internet has identified the library desk clerk who called the Catholic University campus police as Brittany McNurlin, a law student who also works with the public defender’s office. McNurlin enjoys hobbies such as dialing 911, cosplaying as a bouncer and insisting she is not a racist. Her future goals…
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Megyn Kelly Is A Professional White Woman
“Who here is white?” asked Miss Sumpter, the 3rd-grade social studies teacher at Millbrooks Elementary School in Champaign, Ill., to her students while conducting a mock census. Each hand in the all-white classroom limped up, confirming their whiteness, though most of the students were just slightly confused by Miss Sumpter’s question. Well, each hand except…
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Millennial Georgians Get Their Obama Moment With Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams’ campaign bus was running forty minutes late. But the anticipation for her arrival at Savannah State University seemed to intensify with each passing minute. Hundreds of people had settled into lawn chairs or found a spot on the ground around the gazebo in the center of campus Tuesday night. The candidate’s advance team…
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Dear Drivers Who Veer Left to Turn Right, I Hate You. WTF Is Wrong With You?
This goes out to you and you — you know who you are, so stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re driving along a thoroughfare, minding your own business. Maybe you’re even listening to your favorite true-crime podcast as you venture into work, traffic court, or to that Brazilian wax appointment you’ve been putting…
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What Black People Should Take Away From the Kavanaugh Hearing: A Lack of Due Process Will Always Hurt Us the Most
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was the perfect witness. She was credible. She had taken the time during a brutal, agonizing attack to study her rapist’s face, to make sure she would later be able to bring him to justice. She remained strong through an agonizing rape kit—twice, because the first attempt was botched; through a penicillin shot;…
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Hot Chocolate: Fenty Beauty 'Unveiled' a New Stunna Lip Paint, and My Life Just Got Made
Fun fact: I am of a generation of women who wore brown lipstick (sans lipliner, in my case) as we came of age. In fact, my signature shade—and maybe yours, too—was L’Oréal’s Colour Riche in Brazil Nut (formerly number 333 but rebranded as 850 in recent years). It was the perfect, creamy caramel-brown—my first experience…
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Colin Kaepernick, Dave Chappelle Awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Black Culture Medal; Rachel Dolezal Snubbed Again
Quick question: When one of America’s most prestigious Ivy League universities honors Colin Kaepernick, Dave Chappelle and six other African Americans for their contributions to black history and culture, will white people burn their Harvard rejection letters, their Chappelle’s Show DVD sets or the ivy in their yards? According to the Associated Press, Harvard University’s…
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Snochia Moseley Identified as Alleged Mass Shooter in Maryland [Updated]
Mere hours after a mass shooting at an office complex in Middleton, Wis., and another one in Masontown, Penn., law enforcement officials confirm that three people are dead and three are wounded after a shooting by a woman at a Rite Aid facility near Aberdeen, Md., a village about two hours northeast of Washington, D.C.…