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NY Airport Workers’ Strike Suspended as Contract Negotiations Continue
Updated Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 5:42 p.m. EDT: The airport-worker strike that began with a mass walk-off at three New York-area airports Tuesday night has been suspended while contract talks continue. Rob Hill, vice president of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, who is representing the workers, told NBC News, “With strikes looming at Newark, LaGuardia,…
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We Fact-Checked Umar Johnson’s Hotep Tantrum With Roland Martin Because Someone Had To
While everyone is grabbing the popcorn for the Blac Chyna-Rob Kardashian beef, the real donnybrook was happening Monday on TV One’s News One Now, when host Roland Martin had ankh-right leader Umar Abdullah-Johnson on his morning show. Everything seemed cool in the Great Ascot vs. Daishiki War, and then everything exploded. Johnson called a panelist…
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Boomerang at 25 Isn’t Just a ’90s Eddie Murphy Flick; It’s a World We Want to Live In
It is a Friday night on the set of 1992’s romantic comedy Boomerang. In between shooting takes for the now classic Thanksgiving-dinner scene, Eddie Murphy and cast trade jokes about what would happen if Mr. and Mrs. Jackson (John Witherspoon and BeBe Drake) had sex in the bathroom of his character Marcus’s luxurious New York…
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Ebony Misses Deadline to Pay Freelancers
Union to Writers: You’re Having a Ripple Effect N.Y. Times Walkout Backs Copy Editors Media Unite in Backlash Against Trump Tweet ‘Unprecedented Attack on Voting Rights’ In ONA, You Can Join as ‘Gender Fluid’ Australia ‘Just So White’ to U.S. Black Journalist Indians Drop Fight Over NFL Team Trademark Public Housing Called Enabler of Gang…
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I Am Your Uppity Negro
When I was growing up in and around Los Angeles, there were neighborhoods that I knew not to visit and certain stores I knew were off-limits. They were not for me. In fancy department stores, steely eyes followed me as I browsed, and salespeople wished me out the door as soon as I had walked…
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Journalists Claim Abuse at Inauguration
Suit Says Cops Laughed at Newsmen’s Humiliation ‘Obama’s Secret Struggle to Punish Russia’ Anti-Black Racism Elevated as Topic Among Latinos Female Wall St. Journal Reporters Press Diversity Critic’s Take on Chicago Violence Causes Backlash Consensus: Senate Health Bill Would Be a Setback Who Speaks for Muslims? Non-Muslim Journalists Who Illegally Shot Video Inside Cosby Courtroom?…
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#StayWoke: Take a Look at Trump’s Energy Appointee’s Deleted Tweets About Blacks, Jews and Women
A senior Energy Department official tried to delete all of his hateful, racist and misogynist tweets, but the internet remains undefeated. On Thursday, the Washington Post unearthed and exposed all of William C. Bradford’s—Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs—disturbing tweets. And on a scale of…
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Mobb Deep’s Prodigy and Sickle Cell: What You Need to Know About a Disease That Takes Down the Young
Forty years ago, Albert “Prodigy” Johnson of Mobb Deep, who died Tuesday at age 42, would likely never have had a music career. In 1973, those born with sickle cell disease had a life expectancy of just 14 years. Today that number is as young as 40 and extends to the late 60s. It’s better.…
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On 2-Year Anniversary of Massacre, Mother Emanuel AME Church Announces Memorial to Honor Shooting Victims
The Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., announced Saturday that it was retaining the designer of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum to craft a permanent monument to the nine victims who lost their lives to racist terror on June 17, 2015. Israeli-American architect Michael Arad was selected to create a…
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Marvel Comics Cancels Black Panther Spinoff About Black Women 48 Hours After New Trailer Drops
If you’re like me, you’re still recovering from the life-altering, summer-changing amazingness that was the Black Panther movie trailer that debuted during Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday. The music, the action and the cast of actors look amazing. The costuming alone is about to change the game. Black women are going to…