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Ananda Lewis Reveals She Has Stage 3 Breast Cancer, Urges Mammograms for Early Detection
If you are a person of a certain age, there’s a high likelihood that you once either emulated or had a full-blown obsession with one-time MTV veejay and host of BET’s Teen Summit, Ananda Lewis. Now 47, the former daytime talk show host has been laying low as of late, but on Thursday, she gave…
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OK, So Maybe the Washington Football Team Is a Bigger Mess Than We Realized
OK, we all knew Dan Snyder was a terrible boss, but holy shit. As the team formerly known as the Washington Racial Slurs continues to endure the worst off-season ever, the team now faces even more accusations of sexual harassment following 15 former employees accusing the team of sexual misconduct and verbal abuse in July.…
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Sweet Dream or Beautiful Nightmare? In 22 Days, I'm Going to Find Out That Beyoncé's Diet Is No Joke
I was kidding, I swear. At least, I was mostly kidding when I DM’d The Root’s Editor-in-Chief, Danielle Belton, and asked if the company would pay if I tried the new, Beyoncé-endorsed 22 Days Nutrition program. I even ended my message with the laughing/crying emoji—a clear tip-off that I was joking, right? Right? Customarily, that…
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Media Scolded for Covering Africa With Few, if Any, African Voices
150 Protest “60 Minutes” Pieces With No Blacks in View Howard W. French, former New York Times correspondent covering West and Central Africa, author of two books on Africa and an associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, had already complained. “There’s a large literature of what’s meant by Africa w/out Africans,” French tweeted last…
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Cosby: CNN’s Upcoming Special About Beverly Johnson’s Accusations Is Not Balanced
Beverly Johnson Charges Surface Talk of Lies, Death Threats CNN replied Monday to a scathing letter from Bill Cosby’s lawyer accusing the network of unethical reporting tactics with a scathing letter of its own. The network’s lawyer ripped into the character of a former boyfriend of supermodel Beverly Johnson, who, following accusations by other women,…
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Fla. Man Running for Local Office Posts Phony Obama Endorsement Letter to Facebook
Turns out that not everyone running for office is trying to distance himself from the president. An Orlando, Fla.-area construction-company owner who’s running for local office proudly boasted a letter of endorsement written by President Barack Obama and posted the letter on his Facebook page. There was only one problem: The president didn’t write the…
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Here’s the Deal on Nigeria
For many Americans, Nigeria is an enigma. On the one hand, many Nigerian immigrants come to America and make a killing: They put their student visas to good use, gain admission to selective medical residency programs, get engineering jobs and raise first-generation African-American students who go on to attend the best universities this nation has…
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Quote of the Day: Dayo Olopade on Africa’s Financial Prudence
You can read this quote by Dayo Olopade, about Africa’s informal job sectors that are keeping the continent afloat, in this New York Times op-ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the…
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Africans Are Helping Themselves—Fuel Their Innovation, Not Your Own
It has been a recurring experience during my trips to Ghana and Nigeria in the past few years: seeing Africans do far more for themselves than the mainstream narrative about Africa would have you believe. More important, the methods used by local merchants—and even laymen who have to be ready at a moment’s notice to…
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Why Blacks Loved John F. Kennedy
<a href=”http://mije.org/node/8141/#JFK”>Journalists Shared in Determined Hope of the Era Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, it’s easy for some to dismiss his brief presidency, as conservative commentator Brit Hume did on “Fox News Sunday.” Hume, a senior political analyst for FOX News Channel, said of Kennedy on Sunday, “despite the thinness of the record…