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From Cookie’s Closet to Yours: It Could Be Fast, Affordable and Fabulous
After seeing the success of the first season of Empire, I knew that Cookie Lyon, the show’s stylish star character, would inspire a fashion line. Cookie (played by Taraji P. Henson) set Twitter ablaze each week as viewers commented on everything from her quick, no-nonsense wit to her animal-print dresses, three-finger rings and fur coats.…
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Did My Ancestor Own the Former Slave Whose Info I Found Online?
My family, descended from Thomas Chaffe (1635), is well-documented in The Chaffee Genealogy by William Chaffee (1909) and I’ve traced a direct line back to Thomas in 12 generations. Also well-documented is the fact that the woman who owned the slave Dred Scott, Irene Sanford Emerson, married one of my ancestors. But this isn’t about…
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I Write For A Living, And I Have The Shittiest Handwriting You'll Ever See, And I Don't Care
Between 10am and 10pm on Wednesday, I… …wrote 500 or so words on a rapper who calls himself “Slim Jesus”… …edited and published a piece about a guy who’s a lawyer and an aspiring rapper… …wrote up a ranking of types of pork… …wrote several hundred words about James Blake’s arrest… …wrote 700 or so…
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Unbroken Spirits: Black Family Legends About Rebellious Forebears
Many of us have them: an old family story about an ancestor who was defiant in the face of oppression or who simply defied society at every turn. Such stories help define us and remind us that we come from people whose spines remained unbowed, no matter what America heaped upon them. Below are three…
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Survey: Alternative Press Still Have Super-White Newsrooms
Women, LGBT People Benefit Most From Diversity Hiring The nation’s alternative news media — many of them spawned by the counterculture and devoted to progressive ideas — rate having a diverse staff important, yet “continue to be predominantly white, and if anything, are getting whiter,” according to a survey of 37 such media outlets by…
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Kanye vs. Trump in 2020?
New Yorker Cover Imagines the Unimaginable for 2020 ‘Kanye West’s announcement of his intention to seek the Presidency reminds us that it’s not too early to start thinking about the 2020 campaign. (2016’s already old hat by now, anyway),’ Barry Blitt says about ‘2020 Vision,’ his cover for next week’s issue,” Mina Kaneko and Françoise…
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Grief Over the Loss of Their Baby Led to a Plan to Help Others
During the year leading up to Suheily and George Davis’ wedding, the then bride-to-be would sneak and take pregnancy tests to make sure she wasn’t pregnant because it was very important for her not to be pregnant before they got married. “I had a secret stash and I wouldn’t tell George about it. He wouldn’t…
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Campaign 2016: The Angry White Man’s Last Stand
Donald Trump’s meteoric rise has become as baffling to the whiny, political chattering class as it has to occasionally tuned-in observers who appear stupefied in his wake. But what’s missing is a deeper nip-tuck look into the rabid whiteness driving his ambitions. The answer to the mystery of his popularity has stared us in the…
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Columnist: Donald Trump May Not Be a White Supremacist, but He Sure Is Their Favorite Candidate
New Yorker Magazine Is Latest to Explore Ties “Ever since the Tea Party’s peak, in 2010, and its fade, citizens on the American far right — Patriot militias, border vigilantes, white supremacists — have searched for a standard-bearer, and now they’d found him,” Evan Osnos wrote for the Aug. 31 issue of the New Yorker.…