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About That Stump Speech, Bernie? Most Black Folks Haven’t Seen the Inside of a Jail
With the Democratic primary headed to South Carolina and Nevada Feb. 20, now’s the time when you can put some money on the market. Iowa, followed by New Hampshire, offered a juicy appetizer. Yet both were as white and middle-class as a row of picket fences in a Hallmark Channel movie. Bernie Sanders’ once mythical,…
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On TV, Plenty of Women Are Covering Presidential Race, but Few of Them Are Black
NBC’s Welker Often “the Only Black Woman in the Room” Elle.com, the website of Elle magazine, published “Meet the Girls on the Bus” Wednesday, confirming what many television viewers have noticed: More women than ever are covering a presidential race. “This Is What NBC News Looks Like in 2016,” read a headline on a video…
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Beyoncé Drops ‘Formation’ for the People, the Black People
Well, that was black. Cornbread and collard greens black. “Hot sauce in my bag” black. Southern black. Dirty South black. Your grandma telling you to go cut down a switch black. Did you know Beyoncé was black? If you didn’t know, if you thought she was some ethereal, raceless, colorless transformative nymph who could doo-wop pop…
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Report: NYPD Uses Obscure Law to Kick People Out of Their Homes
“The morning of May 4, 2011, Jameelah El-Shabazz watched out the window of her Bronx apartment as a team of police officers fanned across the rooftop of Banana Kelly High School,” Sarah Ryley wrote in a piece published jointly Thursday by ProPublica and the Daily News in New York, which participated in the reporting. “The…
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I’m a Grown Man, but I Still Don’t Cuss in Front of My Dad
I remember the first time it happened. I was in sixth grade. It was my second week at St. Barts, a private Catholic school in Penn Hills, a suburb of Pittsburgh. My parents took me out of the city schools and sent me there because of its academic record and its athletic reputation. Actually, that’s…
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Leaked Emails Show Racist Culture at University of Chicago Fraternity: Report
Members of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity at the University of Chicago are under scrutiny after leaked internal emails showed racist and other offensive remarks made against Muslims, black people and women, BuzzFeed reports. In the emails, a Muslim student-activist was referred to as a “terrorist,” and members detailed how they planned to celebrate “Marathon Luther…
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Is White America Ready for Truth and Reconciliation Commissions?
Whites Believed Ready for Local Initiatives on Race Polling data say that recent developments such as video showing police culpability in brutality against citizens have persuaded white Americans that racism is a national problem that must be confronted, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation declared Thursday. That means the United States is ready for the concept of…
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Commentators Say Ore. Government Takeover Would Not Have Lasted 3 Weeks if Militants Weren’t White
Response to Oregon Standoff Has Invited Comparisons “A siege of more than three weeks at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge came to a sudden and violent end Tuesday when five militants — including leader Ammon Bundy and his brother, Ryan Bundy — were arrested in a traffic stop and another militia member was shot and…
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1 Dead as Feds Arrest Ammon Bundy, 7 Others in Oregon Wildlife-Refuge Takeover
The FBI and Oregon State Police have arrested members of a group of armed protesters who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks, including group leader Ammon Bundy, USA Today reports. Authorities moved in on the group around 4:25 p.m. PST Tuesday along Highway 395 during a traffic stop.…
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The Tragic Mulattos Of The Real Housewives Of Potomac
The first time I heard the of “Jack and Jill” was in high school. A Black girl l knew — let’s call her Toni — was living her BEST life. Her dad had an MBA from Harvard and was on the board of a bank. She got accepted Early Decision to Harvard. They owned their…