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'Yeezus' Is Good, Not Great, and Quite Misogynist
Sparse rock chords, medium-sized rhymes and women as objects is how Yeezus sounds to Kris Ex, who reviewed Kanye West’s latest album in L.A. Weekly. He also notes West’s misogynist lyrics, despite becoming father to a baby girl, North West, with girlfriend Kim Kardashian, last weekend. The album is short, clocking in at 40 minutes,…
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NYPD Finally Cops to Profiling?
(The Root) — Though the New York City Police Department has steadfastly denied that its controversial stop-and-frisk program constitutes racial profiling, today it appears that New York’s finest are singing a new tune. The NYPD Captains Endowment Association is running an ad against a new City Council measure that would expand the language defining those…
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Job-Hunting Journos Duped by Fake Paper
How desperate are some journalists to find newspaper work in this era of cutbacks and layoffs? Nine or 10 journalists are reported to have fallen for a scam in which a 25-year-old accused con artist created a fake online newspaper. They joined his “staff.” Joshua Brian Randolph was in the Hall County, Ga., Detention Center…
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FBI Terrorist List: Guilty by Association?
“Let me put it this way,” began Salim Muwakkil, the veteran Chicago writer, in a Facebook posting Wednesday. “I’ve known Assata Shakur from the days when she was known as Joanne Chesimard. “What’s more, while working as a journalist for the Associated Press, I covered the deadly encounter on the NJ Turnpike that resulted in…
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Misogynist Tweets Flood Twitter After E3
(The Root) — The Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as E3 for short, has had gamers all aflutter on Twitter. But when Feminist Frequency‘s Anita Saarkesian joined the conversation, things got ugly. All she did was note that none of the games unveiled at Xbox One’s press conference featured a female protagonist. The misogynist tweets came…
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Are Blacks More Relaxed About Privacy?
Majority of Americans Say Security Is the Bigger Priority African Americans are more likely than others to believe that the government should have access to telephone records, monitor email and investigate possible terrorist threats even if it intrudes on privacy concerns, according to a poll released Monday by the Pew Research Center and the Washington…
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New Twitter Account 'Live-Tweets' 1963
(The Root) — This year marks the 50th anniversary of the year 1963 and the momentous things that happened therein. The assassination of Medgar Evers, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, the March on Washington — many of the events that spring to mind when you think about the civil rights movement happened…
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50 Years After George Wallace's Stand
(The Root) — Fifteen years after Vivian Malone and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama, I had my first day of classes in August of 1978 at the “Capstone of Higher Education” — the state’s flagship. On June 11, 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, an iconic segregationist, stood in the door…
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How Black Men Can Win in Coporate America
On Monday, June 10, BlackEnterprise.com hosted its second Month of the Man Twitter chat, part two in a series of lunchtime talks tailored to male leaders of color. This week’s chat focused on how young black men can get their foot in the door at Fortune 500 companies and succeed in the C-suite. Featured experts…
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'Plessy v. Ferguson': Who Was Plessy?
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. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About the…