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Angelo Henderson Dies, ‘Buoyant’ Pulitzer Winner
Report: Medical Examiner Cites Natural Causes Angelo B. Henderson, a Detroit radio personality who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 while at the Wall Street Journal, died in his home in Pontiac, Mich., Saturday, according to Detroit news reports. Henderson died “after being rushed to the hospital in the morning. The 51-year old had been…
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Richie Incognito Tweets That Jonathan Martin Was Suicidal
Looks like Richie Incognito just can’t keep quiet. The former Dolphins offensive lineman, who is still knee-deep in controversy surrounding bullying allegations lodged by ex-fellow teammate Jonathan Martin, took to Twitter Wednesday to voice his displeasure with Martin and Martin’s representative, the New York Post reports. Incognito, who is still awaiting the findings of an…
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What Does It Take to Be the Black ‘It’ Girl?
In some ways, Lupita Nyong’o fits the fashion-plate standard of beauty that’s changing, ever so slowly, but still frequently looks for a certain type: She’s thin and sculpted, with regal cheekbones and bearing to match. And her accent doesn’t hurt, either, in an America that’s still New World enough to be impressed by such things.…
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The Affordable Care Act Takes Center Stage at the BET Honors Awards
BET Honors Show Makes Time for Affordable Care Act Aretha Franklin closed the show, Smokey Robinson delivered a stunning rendition of “The Tracks of My Tears,” and Ice Cube, Berry Gordy, photographer Carrie Mae Weems and American Express President Kenneth Chenault got their props, but in between was a public service ad for the political football known as the Affordable Care Act. The occasion…
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80,000 at Moral March Protest Injustice
“Forward together, not one step back,” chanted a crowd estimated at 80,000 in Raleigh, N.C., this weekend. But along with the chants was the realization that history is repeating itself with renewed legislative battles over efforts to diminish voting rights and fights for economic justice. And these setbacks have reignited civil rights activism across the…
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10 People You Should Be Following on Twitter
In honor of Black History Month, it’s a great time to highlight those experts in our community who are really giving out great advice and information to help us all become better people and business owners. These 10 experts inhabit the realms of business, politics and life-coaching to bring you the best information, 140 characters…
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The Uneventful Showdown Between Obama and O’Reilly
Who “won” in Bill O’Reilly’s pre-Super Bowl interview with President Obama? Was it the public? “Remember how much was at stake in February 2011: The GOP had just started running the House; we all knew huge showdowns were coming; and of course all of it was prelude to 2012,” Michael Tomasky wrote Sunday for the Daily Beast. “That O’Reilly interview —…
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Shouldn’t Every Day Be ‘Black History Month’?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 66:…
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SNL Teaches Us 'Diversity' Means Assimilation
Writer Says Most Blacks on Show Have Not Been Happy “In the early part of the past decade, I wrote biographies of two famously deceased actors from Saturday Night Live, John Belushi and Chris Farley,” Tanner Colby wrote this month for Slate. “Having exhausted the dead, fat comedian genre, I decided to write a somewhat…
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Prestigious NYC Private School Apologizes for Showing Slavery Satire
One of New York City’s most exalted prep schools has formally apologized for screening a satirical slavery film to students in which the South won the Civil War, the New York Times reports. The Dalton School, located in the Upper East Side, showed C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America to sophomores during history-project presentations on…