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The 2017 Miss USA Is a Proud, Black HBCU Graduate, and She’s Also Problematic as Hell
For the second consecutive year, Miss District of Columbia, a black woman and HBCU graduate, has been crowned Miss USA. Outgoing 2016 Miss USA Deshauna Barber crowned her fellow Washington, D.C., resident, Kára McCullough, 25, Sunday night in Las Vegas. McCullough is a chemist working for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Two black women were…
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14-Year-Old Carson Huey-You Becomes Youngest Person to Graduate From Texas Christian University
On Saturday, some 2,000 students received their undergraduate, graduate or doctorate degrees from Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. during three ceremonies at Texas Christian University. Carson Huey-You was one of them, officially becoming the youngest person to ever receive a bachelor’s degree at the school as he walked across the stage at age 14. But…
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Praise for Lester Holt, the ‘Rude Negro’
‘The Media-Political Complex Bowed Down’ Trump Suggests Ending Daily Briefings Trump Voting Panel to Push ‘Myth of Fraud’ Readers Imagine Successors to Confederates ‘Cultural Anxiety’ Drove Many to Trump Too Many U.S. Moms Dying in Childbirth NABJ Names Four More Award Winners Honoring Mom Amid ‘Incarceration Epidemic’ Short Takes “Lester Holt conquered the news on…
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Jeff ‘Gollum’ Sessions Emerges From Middle Earth to Renew the War on Drugs
In a harsh reversal from the Eric Holder-led Justice Department, civil liberties advocates, science and logic, Jeff Sessions has directed federal prosecutors across the country to charge drug suspects with the most serious charges legally possible. Sessions, the love child of the Travelocity traveling gnome and the yellow Teletubby, issued a two-page memo that outlined…
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Report: Black Girls 5 Times More Likely to Be Suspended From School Than White Girls
Black girls do not present more frequent or serious discipline problems. They are not slower learners; nor do they struggle academically more than any other student. But according to a new report from the National Women’s Law Center, black girls are twice as likely as any other student to be suspended, and 5.5 times more…
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15-Year-Old Founder of Bow-and-Necktie Company Scores Huge NBA Partnership
While a lot of teenagers are spending their time doing homework, talking on the phone, hanging with their friends at the mall or making their latest Snapchat video, one 15-year-old has just inked a lucrative licensing deal with the NBA that could very well lead to his earning seven figures or more. Moziah “Mo” Bridges…
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Desiree Rogers to Leave Johnson Publishing Co. Along With Most of Ebony’s Masthead
Jet Editor To Lead Both Publications Black Writer Loses Column Over NRA Ties Disrupter Chooses Activism Over Column Was That Trump in the Stands at Fenway Park? In Spanish, the News Priority Is Immigration Gannett Layoffs Hit Small Papers Hardest The Story of Two Who Ran From Police Short Takes “Desiree Rogers, CEO of Johnson…
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Watch: Black Women Dive Headfirst Into the Future With Virtual Reality Project
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism is an art installation and virtual reality experience recently featured at the Tribeca Film Festival. The project, which seeks to put women of color in the virtual reality space, was created by Hyphen-Labs, a collective of women from diverse backgrounds. “We worked with character modelers, animators and developers to create an empowering experience…
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Black Star Wars Characters, Ranked
If you are a popular athlete, have been attractive for most of your life or had a girlfriend in high school, then you probably don’t know that May 4 is Star Wars Day. Star Wars is the seminal piece of work in the nerd universe, and single-handedly created the serial Hollywood science fiction blockbuster. While…