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Frances O. Thompson, 1st African-American Councilwoman of Hudson County, NJ, Dead at 74
Hudson County, N.J.’s first African-American councilwoman, Frances O. Thompson, died Sunday after battling cancer, NJ.com reports. She was 74. Thompson, who was director of the Hudson County Office of Minority and Women Business Enterprise, was first pushed into the public arena in 1985 after she was elected to represent Ward F as councilwoman, making her…
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Azealia Banks Says She’ll No Longer Use Gay Slur: ‘This Is Me Realizing That Words Hurt’
Azealia Banks now sees the error of her ways when it comes to throwing around the f-word. The rapper, who was recently banned from Twitter, took to Facebook to apologize for her use of the gay slur and said she’ll never use it again. “The amount of people that get hurt when I use the…
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Orlando Shooting Horror Surfaces Disputed ‘Radical Islam’ Term
The mass nightclub shooting in Orlando early Sunday that killed 50 people and injured 53 others has some journalists and politicians pointing to the dead gunman’s purported connection to the Islamic State, which in some references is being labeled “radical Islam,” a loaded term that a counterterrorism expert has said mischaracterizes the religion. As reported…
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Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Kicks Off Its Spring Season With ‘Spirit’
June in New York City means a lot of things, but it is also the official kickoff to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s spring season at Lincoln Center. As in the past, the season began with a star-studded Ailey Spirit Gala (pdf) Wednesday in midtown Manhattan. The evening was a night to remember for attendees, who were greeted…
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5 Reasons I Really Wanted Justin Bieber to Get His Ass Kicked
I don’t listen to the Biebs. He’s not my age group and I’m not his target audience, so therefore our paths have never crossed. But I totally get him as an archetype. He’s the newest white guy doing all the black-guy stuff. You know: the black-guy dancing, the black-vibrato singing, the black-guy swag. I get…
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DOJ Files Lawsuit Against NYC Department of Education for Allowing Principal to ‘Discriminate Against Every Black Teacher’
New York City’s Department of Education is facing a federal lawsuit after the U.S. Department of Justice accused the body of allowing a Queens, N.Y., high school principal to “discriminate against every black teacher” at the school, a press release from the DOJ notes. The lawsuit claims that Pan American International High School Principal Minerva…
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Twitter User Fired After Directing a Homophobic Slur Toward Riley Curry
Another day, another social media user getting fired because of his own stupidity. This time it wasn’t because someone went on a racist rant but because someone directed a homophobic slur toward an innocent toddler. And the toddler in question was Riley Curry. Twitter user Moe Wahdan is obviously a fan of the Cleveland Cavaliers and…
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White Male Privilege: The Ultimate Trump Card
Fewer stories better illustrate the chasm present in America’s broken criminal-justice system than that of convicted sex offender Brock Turner. After being convicted of three felony counts for sexually assaulting an unconscious drunk woman, Turner, who is white, was sentenced to six months in jail with the possibility of being released in three months with…
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On Remembering Prince, ‘Baby Dolls’ Breaking Sexual Barriers and a New Orleans Second Line
In New Orleans’ historic Tremé neighborhood, a sea of “rainbow children” in purple wigs, sequins and sparkles saturated the streets. People of all ages, races, gender expressions and backgrounds followed the buoyant brass band horns and booty-shaking drumbeats of the second-line parade honoring the Purple One. We clapped, shouted and sang to the heavens. There…