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Death Threat, Sext Scandal for Detroit Reporter
Reporter’s Travails Don’t Make Detroit News The disclosure Wednesday that Leonard Fleming, Detroit News city hall reporter, was removed from his beat after allegations that he was having an affair with the ex-wife of state Treasurer Andy Dillon and threatened to kill her sent rival news organizations to court records for the order of personal…
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UNCF Honors Students and Stars
(The Root) — A Howard University graduate, comic actor Anthony Anderson seems like a logical choice to host the television broadcast of UNCF An Evening of Stars when it airs on local and national cable channels this weekend. The program spotlights students from various HBCUs and other colleges and universities including Spelman, Wiley, Johnson C.…
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What Your View of Beyoncé's Lip Sync Says About You
Writing at Clutch magazine, Danielle C. Belton says that her reaction to the news that the singer didn’t sing the national anthem live at the inauguration was “So?” Here’s how she categorizes those who had more to say about the incident. DID YOU THINK: This is a historic day! And President Obama will never be inaugurated again!…
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'Django' Action Figures Dropped Amid Protests
Advocacy Groups, Writers Called Dolls Inappropriate “The controversial ‘Django Unchained’ action figures have officially been DISCONTINUED … after several African American groups called for a boycott of the dolls … TMZ has learned,” the TMZ website reported Friday. Later in the day, the Weinstein Co., the film’s producer, said in a statement, “We have tremendous…
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2nd Amendment Protected Slavery
Author Says Southerners Wanted to Keep Slave Patrols As Hollywood puts slavery back in the American consciousness and the reaction to the Newtown, Conn., shootings has the Second Amendment on the front burner, an author and talk-show host links the two in an intriguing way. “The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery,” reads the…
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Will Obama Boost His Cabinet's Diversity?
(The Root) — Between now and the inauguration on Jan. 21, The Root will be taking a daily look at the president’s record on a number of policy issues, including his first-term accomplishments and what many Americans hope to see him accomplish in a second term. Today: cabinet appointments. See previous postings in this series…
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Are You Bourgie?
If you don’t know the answer to that question, Clutch magazine‘s Stacia L. Brown says that her quiz can shed light on your precise degree of black elitism. Bourgie. It’s a word with which the black community is fairly familiar. But depending on your attitude toward it, you may feel a little comfortable owning it…
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Protests Quash 'All My Babies' Mamas'
“Author Sabrina Lamb was looking forward to kicking off her New Year with a bottle of champagne and a quiet walk on the beach. Instead, on the first day of January she was greeted with a video link from a friend of a brand-new reality show that sent chills down her spine,” Allison Samuels wrote…
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100 Years of Sisterhood, Captured in a Night
(The Root) — I wasn’t entirely sure it would be worth all the fuss. It was a half hour before midnight on Sunday, and a surprise fog had dimmed the neighborhood’s streetlights to spooky. Recovering on the couch after a hard day of being out seemed like the smart thing to do. Did we really…
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MSNBC Makes Gains With Black Audience
MSNBC “. . . enjoyed significant (around 20%) ratings increases across the board” in 2012, “but made astonishing gains with their already-large African American audience, growing that audience by 60.5% for the Mon-Sun 8pm-11pm period,” Tommy Christopher reported Monday for Mediaite. “MSNBC President Phil Griffin told me, in a phone interview, that he is ‘thrilled’…