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If Bow Wow Isn’t Black, What Is He?
So, Lil’ Bow Wow … I mean Bow Wow … I’m sorry … Shad Moss says he’s not black. Let it sink into your brain. Just let it sit there. #NotBlack. I expected Bow Wow to say that he was not an actor or a rapper or a TV host. All of those claims would…
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Angela Bassett Spoke Passionately at DNC About Charleston, SC, Shooting and Gun Violence
Angela Bassett has been #WithHer since Hillary Clinton announced her run for president, so it wasn’t a surprise to see the award-winning actress speak during Wednesday night’s Democratic National Convention. Bassett spoke about the need for gun control, while remembering the victims of the Charleston, S.C., Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooting that left nine…
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Hollywood Celebrities Show Up in Support of DC Statehood
In a room sprinkled with celebrities—and there were quite a few, from Ashley Judd to David Schwimmer—one stood out for reasons other than a starring role on TV or in the movies. Eleanor Holmes Norton has been on the front line of social-justice causes her whole life, and she has no problem uniting with more…
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Trump Supporter Yells Racist Slurs at Black Woman on Subway
“Put them back in the f—king fields where they belong!” On Saturday, a video emerged on YouTube of a white Donald Trump fan shouting out racist, sexist comments at a black woman who apparently had taken the last seat on the L train in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to the New York Daily News. In the video, you…
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‘Dean of Sports Columnists’ Takes New York Times Buyout
William C. Rhoden, the “dean of sports columnists” in one appraisal, told readers Sunday that he is leaving the New York Times after nearly 35 years, 26 of them writing the “Sports of The Times” column. The Times offered buyout packages and “50 Guild Newsroom colleagues will leave under this buyout and one Guild member…
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Twitter Moves on Hate Speech
“Twitter is on an anti-hate speech tear, suspending multiple accounts associated with racist and sexist messages targeting Ghostbusters’ star Leslie Jones earlier this week,” Lauren C. Williams wrote Wednesday for thinkprogress.org. “Chief among them was conservative critic and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. “Yiannopoulos, who gained popularity during the Gamergate movement, is a polarizing figure known…
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Help Me Find My Ancestors in Slave Records
I have been unable to find any records of the Armstrong branch of my family before the 1870 census and look to you for possible answers. The 1870 census shows Tom and Joanna Armstrong living in the Barbecue Township of Harnett County, N.C. There were six children in the house at that time (only the boys),…
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White Judicial Candidate Complains of 'Insensitive' Backlash After He Compares Black Judge to Gorilla
A Muskegon, Mich., lawyer who is running for a judicial position in Muskegon County’s probate court has apologized for recent comments he made comparing a sitting judge to a gorilla, MLive reports. The incident started when lawyer Eric C. Grimm sent out an email July 10 to friends and colleagues asking for votes while criticizing…
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Hampton U. Cancels J-Student Trips to Party Conventions
“A 50-student trip to both conventions has been canceled by administration officials of a historically black college citing security concerns,” Darren Sands reported Monday for BuzzFeed. “In a memo made available to BuzzFeed News, Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications (SHSJC) Dean B. Da’Vida Plummer said there were ‘unresolved personnel, operational, and…
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Charges Dropped Against 100 Protesters in Baton Rouge, La., Prosecutor Says
Louisiana prosecutors have dropped charges against protesters including civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson and Ieshia Evans, the nurse whose arrest photo went viral. According to the Baltimore Sun, District Attorney Hillar C. Moore III of East Baton Rouge announced Friday that his office wouldn’t pursue charges against some 100 protesters arrested for obstruction of a…