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Hacked Emails a Nightmare for Fox's Juan Williams
The most recent batch of hacked emails distributed by WikiLeaks included the cell phone number of Fox News commentator Juan Williams, prompting supporters of Donald Trump to call the number at all hours to insult Williams and accuse him of being a Democratic Party stooge, Williams wrote on Monday. The incident follows criticism of WikiLeaks…
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Media Mogul Cathy Hughes Is in It for the Long Run
Media icon Cathy Hughes is always looking on the bright side. As a 16-year-old teen mom, married at 17 and eventually divorced, she saw her son as a blessing and an inspiration to work harder. In the early ’80s she purchased Washington, D.C., station WOL-AM with the help of a Chemical Bank loan at a 28…
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Will There Be a ‘Rigged’ Election—Against People of Color?
The headline coming out of Wednesday’s Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump presidential debate was Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the Nov. 8 election results, following his claims that the process was “rigged.” In fact, many observers have written, it is Republicans who are “rigging” the election through voter suppression of people of color. The 2016 election…
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Donald Trump Runs for Dictator in Chief
The fun way to write about Wednesday night’s presidential debate would be to focus on the ridiculous number of hashtags and memes that were produced by caustic exchanges between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Trump’s constant attack that Clinton is a #NastyWoman will no doubt spawn pro-Clinton T-shirts and a spike in iTunes sales for…
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BuzzFeed CEO: I Heard Ivanka Trump Talk About 'Mulatto C–k'
Editor’s note: This post contains a tweet that some may find offensive. Ivanka Trump once told a group of friends drinking in a bar that although she had never seen “a mulatto c—k,” she would like to, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti alleges. Peretti tweeted that little tidbit in response to a BuzzFeed News report that Ivanka Trump…
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Atlanta Episode 8: "The Club" Recap
When FX first announced their partnership with NBC workhorse Donald Glover for their new show about the inner-workings of an up and coming rapper and his manager, I assumed scenes like the ones that take place in Atlanta’s “The Club” would be par for the course. Club appearances and popped bottles are, after all, much…
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3 Charged in Fatal Shooting of Tyson Gay’s Daughter
On Sunday, three men were charged in connection with the shooting death of Olympian sprinter Tyson Gay’s 15-year-old daughter, Trinity, the Washington Post reports. Trinity was shot in the neck early Sunday morning outside the Cook Out restaurant in Lexington, Ky. Chazerae M. Taylor, 38; his 19-year-old son, D’markeo C. Taylor; and Dvonta Middlebrooks were all…
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Who Were My Enslaved Ancestor’s Parents?
How do I go about finding the parents of my maternal second great-grandfather Spencer Mott, born about 1820 in Georgia? He was listed in the 1880 census as mulatto, living in Brandywine Claiborne, Miss. I’m guessing he was probably a slave. —Tammy Robinson Tracking enslaved people before the end of the Civil War is tricky…
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Ben Carson: Trump’s Lewd Tape a Progressive Conspiracy
Dr. Ben Carson, who with boxing promoter Don King and Theresa “Omarosa” Manigault is vying for the title of Donald J. Trump’s most conspicuous African American supporter, wrote Saturday that the release of lewd comments by Trump is part of a conspiracy by progressives. The surgeon and former GOP presidential primary contender said he believes…
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Mike Pence May Not Be Donald Trump, but He Offends Just the Same
Pundits and pollsters declared Republican Mike Pence the winner of Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, but that doesn’t mean that like his running mate, Donald J. Trump, Pence didn’t manage to offend many African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans. The debate, the first to be moderated by an Asian American, Elaine Quijano of CBS News, a…