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2 Ohio Men Charged in Brutal Racist Beating That Left Black Man With Broken Eye Socket
Two Toledo, Ohio, men have been arrested after allegedly beating up a man because of his race, Cleveland.com reports. Charles Edward Butler, 33, and Robert Allen Paschalis, 25, both face charges of felonious assault, while Butler is also charged with ethnic intimidation. The men were arraigned Tuesday, with Butler being held on a $75,000 bond,…
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Old Folks May Hate the Way Young People Use Slang, but Who Are They to Talk?
Thanks to the Internet and social media universalizing certain aspects of culture, our slang has become less regional and maddeningly uniform. So a black dude could trek from New York City to the Atlanta University Center in his Timbs and not be clowned for saying how long it took, “dead ass.” Because he probably won’t be…
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Why Draymond Green Is and Isn’t a Dirty Player, Explained
Who is Draymond Green? Draymond Green is a do-everything utility man for the Golden State Warriors; the engine that steams their machine; the straw that stirs their coffee; the detergent that sparkles their dishes. He is their heart and soul, their guts and grit, their … Are you just going to speak in sportswriting clichés?…
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Comedians Call Out Politicians on Refugees
Want to see the best coverage of the global refugee crisis? The worst displacement, according to a top State Department official, since World War II? Check out late-night comedian John Oliver’s take on the subject. Oliver skewers dishonest reporting by Fox News Channel, Eastern European countries that are shutting the door on the displaced and…
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Hey Parents, Let Your Kids Be Free. Just Not Too Free
Last week, NBC News ran an op-ed from Danielle Moodie-Mills, a very smart sista whose stuff you should be reading, titled “Does the Revolution Begin With a Free Black Child?” In the piece, she identifies the sartorial and behavioral eccentricities of young black celebrities—including Jaden Smith, Willow Smith and Zendaya Coleman—as indicators of a growing…
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‘My Family Is Just as Good as Anyone Else’s’: Same-Sex Couples and Their Children Speak Out
First comes love, then comes marriage—and everyone knows what happens after that. Children are the expected outcome of matrimony. Now that gay marriages are legal, the kids of their unions are subject to even more scrutiny, on top of the years of criticism from socially conservative groups like Focus on the Family and Americans for…
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Beyond the Black Panther: 7 More Great Black Comic Book Characters You Should Know
If you’ve already seen Captain America: Civil War and have even a passing familiarity with King T’Challa of Wakanda, aka the Black Panther, you know that the director and writers didn’t s—t the bed with the character’s introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As the first meaningful black character in the MCU (Anthony Mackie is…
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Here Is the Darth Becky Mount Rushmore
It’s been a few weeks since Beyoncé turned the entire Internet into a collection of underqualified Easy Rawlinses—theorizing, guessing, hypothesizing and attempting to deduce the identity of Becky With the Good Hair. (The verdict? Maybe it was Rachel Ray. Maybe it was a MacGuffin. And maybe it was just Beyoncé’s new way of saying Sasha…
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Ferguson, Mo., Settles With 4 Reporters After Charges of Abuse
“Four journalists who alleged abuse during the 2014 Ferguson protests have reached a confidential settlement with the St. Louis County police, lawyers said Wednesday,” Robert Patrick reported for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “The department agreed to ‘adopt policy changes that will address the issues raised this lawsuit,’ lawyers for both sides said in a joint…
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Showing Up Late for Concerts Isn’t a Lauryn Hill Thing
I’ve been to more concerts in my lifetime than I can remember. But I can tell you which were distinctly the best and worst that I’ve attended. The best was in early 1999, during my senior year of high school. I went to see the Roots at the State Theatre (now the Fillmore) in Detroit.…