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Quiz: Exactly How Hotep Are You?
Earlier today, B.o.B. submitted a first-ballot entry into the Hotep Hall-of-Fame with a diss track directed towards Neil Degrasse Tyson where the Atlanta “rapper” doubled down on his assertion that the world is, in fact, flat and not round. (And yes, this means he also believes Earth has an actual edge. Like a cliff. And you…
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The Real Housewives of Potomac and the Tragic-Mulatto Syndrome
The first time I heard the term “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 to Harvard. They owned their place in New York City.…
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Latinos Are the Largest Nonwhite Group but Will Be Underrepresented Among Voters in 2016
Despite Numbers, Voting Influence Seen as Limited Latinos, now the nation’s largest minority group, will make up a record 11.9 percent of all U.S. eligible voters in 2016, pulling nearly even with blacks at 12.4 percent, the Pew Research Center reported on Tuesday. But “for many reasons, Latino voters are likely to once again be…
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Celebrating 15 Years of Finding Forrester
How does a black kid from the Bronx come to possess the skill of writing? How does a black kid from the Bronx come to befriend a reclusive, older white man who turns out to be a celebrated author? It happens in the movie Finding Forrester, which celebrated its 15th anniversary Jan. 12. But this…
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Critics Say Obama’s State of the Union Speech Didn’t Home In on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Many Wish “State of the Union” Addressed Race Issues President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night might have been a vision for the future, an exit interview with the American people or a chance to respond to critics of his presidency, but in some quarters the relevant questions were how much the president…
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Six Things I Hope President Obama Says At Tonight's SOTU Address
Tonight will be President Obama’s final State Of The Union address, a culmination of eight years of the most powerful* man in America (and arguably the world) being a Black man from Hawaii. It still hasn’t fully sunk in that I have lived to see a Black man be elected and re-elected. I still remember…
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Baby? Yes. Ring? No. Has Parenthood Become More Appealing Than Marriage?
While a lot of co-parenting situations are the result of unprotected nights of passion that turn into unexpected lifelong bonds, a growing number of women and men are making the informed and strategic decision to have children without the benefit of marriage. Back in 2014, Chris Brown, whose want for a child ruined his already…
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Obama’s Proposed Gun Control Measures Would Not Have Stopped Recent Mass Shootings: Newswire
“The gun control measures a tearful President Barack Obama announced Tuesday would not have prevented the slaughters of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, or 14 county workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California,” Michael R. Sisak reported Wednesday for the Associated Press. Among other media reactions to the…
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‘Sausage Scandal of 2014’ May Have Led to Vulgar Messages on Mich. Woman’s Pizza Receipt
A West Bloomfield, Mich., mother is upset that her daughter ordered a pizza from a local Domino’s Pizza, only to receive the pie along with a receipt with the words “[f—k] this [c—t]” printed on it. Kenyatta Robinson says she believes that this all stems from an argument she had with the restaurant’s manager, which…
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Natalie Cole Dead at Age 65
Natalie Cole, the singer who followed in the foosteps of her famous father, Nat King Cole, passed away Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 65. The official cause of death, according to TMZ, was congestive heart failure, but the website reports that she had underlying issues of complications from a kidney transplant. Cole…