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Muhammad Ali Was Media Gift That Kept on Giving
“The old white sportswriters said the flicking, shying kid with the silly doggerel would get knocked into the ringside seats with one punch,” Sally Jenkins wrote Saturday for the Washington Post. “It was 1964, and Cassius Clay hadn’t yet butterflied into the mythic champion Muhammad Ali. He was still incubating in a sweltering Miami Beach…
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St. Louis Police Department Has Paid Out $4,700,000 to Settle 44 Cases Since 2010: Report
The St. Louis Police Department has doled out $4.7 million since 2010 to settle some 44 cases, some of which include allegations of injuries or wrongful imprisonment or death, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The Post-Dispatch reviewed some payouts had not previously been publicized. One of the cases, the 2011 fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar…
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Muhammad Ali’s Death Followed ‘Media Frenzy’ of Speculation
The death of Muhammad Ali Friday night in Phoenix followed “a media frenzy of speculation about his latest health woes,” as Mike James and Chris D’Amico reported earlier in the day for USA Today. But it gave media outlets time to prepare an outpouring of coverage that unfolded as the news spread in the Eastern…
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Report: 2 NYC Teen Girls Detained After Allegedly Beating Woman, 78
Two New York City teenage girls were detained Friday, a day after, police say, they attacked a 78-year-old woman on a Brooklyn subway platform after the woman asked one of the teens to move her feet so that she could sit down. Police released screenshots of both teens to the media after the attack. The…
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Trump Hijacks a News Cycle
“Donald Trump used a press conference about millions of dollars in donations he says he raised for veterans’ groups to hijack the cable news discussion and largely avoid coverage of an anticipated document release alleging misrepresentation by his now-defunct Trump University business,” Matt Gertz reported Tuesday for Media Matters for America. “CNN, MSNBC, and Fox…
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5 Things to Avoid if You Want to Have a Good Time at a Bachelor Party
Inside the black time capsule from the year of our Lord 1999, you’ll find a number of items evoking the spirit of the time: a CD-ROM single of C-Murder’s stroll classic, “Down for My N—gaz”; a 5X, Latrell Sprewell New York Knicks jersey; a copy of Zane’s Sex Chronicles. If you move aside the pile…
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Love & Hip Hop Atlanta, Season 5 Episode 9 Recap
Merry Memorial Day and what not. While y’all were gnawing on badly seasoned chicken and making up excuses for underbidding, Mona Scott was slaving over a hot stove to bring you this week’s serving of steaming foolishment BKA Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, Season 5. This week’s installment of confusion and shame brought us a…
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Woman Tweets About Racist Encounter With Airbnb Host
Editor’s note: This post contains tweets that some may find offensive. You’d think by now that racists would have been warned when it comes to using Airbnb, since many hosts have been put on blast recently with the hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack. But that hasn’t stopped one man in North Carolina from letting his racist freak flag…
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Black Don’t Crack, but You Can Still Get Skin Cancer
The summer sun is coming, and boy, how we do love it. We love to bask in it. We love to play in it. And our brown skin protects us from its harmful rays. Or does it? Throughout generations, we’ve probably heard that because of the melanin in our skin, we don’t need sunscreen or…
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Danielle Belton Named Managing Editor of The Root
Danielle Belton, associate editor of The Root who created the blog The Black Snob, has been named managing editor of The Root, succeeding Lyne Pitts, the website announced Friday. The Root, which calls itself “the premier news, opinion and culture site for African-American influencers,” ranked second in monthly unique visitors for 2015 on a list…