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Journalists Attend the White House US-Africa Leaders Summit Dinner as Guests
8 From Fourth Estate Join 400 Honoring African Leaders Members of the media are accustomed to being on the outside looking in when the White House hosts social events, but at least eight were invited guests when the president entertained African heads of state Tuesday night. “I’m way more used to being with the [White…
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Olympic Legend Alice Coachman Dies at 90
Alice Coachman, the Olympic legend who shattered ceilings and the status quo when she became the first black woman to win a gold medal at the games, earning the medal for her 5-foot-6-1/8-inch high jump, has died in her hometown of Albany, Ga., at the age of 90, the New York Times reports. Coachman had…
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Favela Chic: Gentrifying the Slums of Brazil
A walk through Rio de Janeiro’s Vidigal favela is a full sensory experience on any given day. The smell of grilled meat mixes with that of exhaust from motorcycle taxis traversing the slum’s corridors as well as the scent of excrement from the legion of stray dogs that roam the streets. Add in the engulfing…
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Leading Black Producers on Broadway Adapt Film Black Orpheus
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe are looking to ride the Brazilian wave energized by the World Cup and the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics by bringing the film Black Orpheus to Broadway, the Associated Press reports. The musical’s producers will be Stephen Byrd, Alia Jones-Harvey and Paula Marie Black.…
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Why I Support My Brother’s Keeper but Still Signed the Letter Criticizing It
Over the past month or so, the conversation concerning the Obama administration’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative has quickly degenerated into an all-too-familiar debate that boils down to this: Who wins the medal of “most oppressed”? As they have in controversies past, dueling statistics have emerged to “prove” that “It’s black boys!” or “No, it’s black girls!”…
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World Cup 2014: Soccer Rules Everything Around Me!
I’m an avid soccer fan. Well, let me rephrase. I’m a fan of playing soccer and watching every four years when the World Cup comes around. I grew up in Germany and the first sport I was introduced to athletically was soccer. I was pretty good too. Turns out I could run around for hours with…
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Gay Black Men’s Salaries Are on Par With Those of Straight White Men. Progress?
Anyone who knows anything knows that it is hard to be a black man in America. There’s endless data that backs up this declaration, from the disproportionate number of men of color targeted by law enforcement to programs like stop and frisk and the shooting of unarmed black boys like Trayvon Martin. Because of the…
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3 Things People Didn’t Understand About #YesAllWomen
With more than a million tweets since it was created by Twitter user Kaye on May 24, the #YesAllWomen hashtag dominated Twitter last week. The awareness campaign—launched in response to Elliot Rodger’s murderous rampage in Isla Vista, Calif.—inspired what, to many, was a long-needed conversation about violence, sexism and misogyny. Here’s what everyone understood: Rodger was accused of…
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California Shooter’s Sexism Is More Common Than We Care to Admit
On May 23, disgruntled student and raging misogynist Elliot Rodger, 22, killed six people and injured 13 more before apparently turning the gun on himself in a mass shooting in Isla Vista, Calif. A 141-page manifesto and a series of videos explained why, revealing a troubling trifecta of racism, sexism and sense of entitlement with…
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New York Times Picks 1st Black Executive Editor
Veteran Journalist Is First African American in Role Dean Baquet, managing editor of the New York Times and former top editor at the Los Angeles Times, was named executive editor on Wednesday after Jill Abramson stepped down from the New York newspaper’s top editorial job. “Baquet, 57, becomes the first African American in the job. “It is…