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20 Black Films Made After She’s Gotta Have It That You Should See
Spike Lee forever changed black film with the 1986 release of She’s Gotta Have It. Although a black-film movement had been afoot before Lee joined its ranks, his first independently produced feature film put Hollywood on high alert. As the modern godfather of black film, Lee ushered in a golden age of black cinema that,…
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A Fake Trump Jr. ‘Insults’ NABJ-NAHJ
Donald J. Trump’s campaign reportedly cited a scheduling conflict in declining an invitation to address the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention, and a parody Twitter account using the name Donald Trump Jr. — one of his chief advisers — surely won’t win the GOP candidate much forgiveness from people…
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Was Hillary Clinton Asked the Right Questions at the NABJ-NAHJ Convention?
Hillary Clinton addressed the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Friday after not holding a full-fledged news conference in more than seven months. Do the Democrats take Latinos for granted? Here is part of @HillaryClinton‘s answer at #NABJNAHJ16 pic.twitter.com/FOaD5k8MXC — Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) August…
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NYC Dad Shot Dead Trying to Retrieve Son's Stolen Baseball Hat
A Brooklyn, N.Y., father was killed after he took back his son’s baseball cap from one of the teens who’d stolen it, authorities say. It all started Saturday when 17-year-old Gerald Sealey was playing basketball outside in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood. Three teens roughed Gerald up and took his Don C Oakland Raiders baseball cap. The…
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Trump Campaign Turns Down Joint Black and Hispanic Journalists Convention
Donald J. Trump turned down an invitation to address the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, NABJ said Wednesday as preparations continued for Friday’s address by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. C-SPAN spokesman Howard Mortman told Journal-isms that C-SPAN radio and television will carry Clinton’s…
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The Mediocrity of Dope: How Donald Trump Hides His Averageness in 'Crazy'
Donald Trump is not insane. I know, I know. That might be terribly hard to prove, particularly since Trump says something crazy about every five minutes. And yes, we’re just about assured that if Trump could somehow be elected president, he’d start a nuclear war with China over a tweet from the Chinese premier declaring…
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Yale May Reconsider Keeping Name of Calhoun College
It seems that the name of Calhoun College at Yale is still up for debate. The university has announced that it may revisit the decision to keep the name of the residential college, which was named after 19th-century alumnus John C. Calhoun, a known and ardent supporter of slavery, the Associated Press reports. Originally, despite students’…
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Dems Flaunted Diversity at Convention, but to What End?
“One implicit message on the first night of the Democratic convention: Even if you regard both major-party candidates as economic and foreign-policy disasters, recall the undocumented immigrants that stood on the stage, the black man with a Latino wife, the first black First Lady of the United States, the embrace of LGBT activists, and try…
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The Democratic National Convention Didn’t Talk About a Black Agenda, so We Did
On Wednesday, as Philadelphia’s center was overrun by throngs of Democratic conventiongoers, The Root and legendary Philadelphia radio station WURD 900 AM collaborated blocks away on Broad Street to discuss what the black agenda might be—especially after what is shaping up to be the most contentious presidential election in nearly 50 years. In the war…
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How The Undefeated Got Michael Jordan Exclusive
Michael Jordan’s surprise announcement Monday that he would give $2 million to organizations working to improve police-community relations was published first on ESPN’s recently launched site The Undefeated because “he had read some of the articles on The Undefeated and liked what we were doing,” editor-in-chief Kevin Merida said he was told. “Jordan’s declaration has…