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Your Confusing Relationship With Cliff Huxtable Doesn’t Justify Victim-Blaming
When I was 11 years old, I sat on a witness stand and was interrogated for the crimes of my father. I had reported his sexual abuse to my mom when I was an innocent 10-year-old, woefully unaware of how the turn of events would play out. I understood nothing when his guilty sentence was…
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‘Sausage Scandal of 2014’ May Have Led to Vulgar Messages on Mich. Woman’s Pizza Receipt
A West Bloomfield, Mich., mother is upset that her daughter ordered a pizza from a local Domino’s Pizza, only to receive the pie along with a receipt with the words “[f—k] this [c—t]” printed on it. Kenyatta Robinson says she believes that this all stems from an argument she had with the restaurant’s manager, which…
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Philadelphia Mummers Parade Marred by Brownface, Anti-Gay Slurs
Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade hit the scene once again on Friday and was yet again mired in a series of racist and homophobic acts along the parade route, including the assault of a gay man, according to reports. The 116-year-old folk festival, considered the oldest in the United States, was created by Scandanavian, European and,…
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As Someone Raised on Bill Cosby, I Feel No Joy in Writing About His Alleged Crimes
My parents forced me to have a crush on Rudy Huxtable. Now, I realize how that might read. I can imagine people picturing a dictatorial and deranged mother and father tying an 8-year-old me to a chair when The Cosby Show came on and forcing me to chant, “I will crush on Rudy Huxtable” while…
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The Moments in 2015 That Made Us Realize Racism Isn’t Going Anywhere
If there’s one thing that 2015 has taught us, it’s that racism isn’t a thing of the past; it’s a thing of the present. The idea of a post-racial America is just that: a novel idea, but one that isn’t going to become reality anytime soon. National incidents and specific people put racism in the…
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The Top 10 Stories Involving Race and Media in 2015
A year in the quest for news media that look like America: 1. Police Violence The expanded use of body cameras and dashboard videos gave the public access to footage of police interactions with civilians who in too many instances ended up dead. The footage often contradicted police reports and prompted news organizations to conduct…
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On Being a New Parent When News Like Tamir Rice Hits
Invariably, among the countless words and rants and tweets and think pieces and blogs and status messages and emails and texts generated whenever another news story breaks about a police-involved killing of a young black person, are the words from parents. Mothers and fathers of black babies, of black boys and girls, of black teenagers…
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No Indictment of Tamir Rice’s Killers Is the Prosecutor’s Failure, Not a ‘Perfect Storm of Human Error’
When prosecutors present a case to a grand jury, they do so solely for the purpose of securing an indictment and proceeding with the case. Period. That is the reason evidence is gathered and carefully presented during the secret and seemingly enigmatic proceeding. Listening to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty speak at the press conference announcing…
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Started From the Bottom, Now They’re Here: The Winners of 2015
In 2015, black Twitter continued to slay with brilliance like #AskRachel and #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies, President Obama ran out of damns and started checking folks who “wanna pop off,” and Black Lives Matter cemented itself as an enduring force with which to be reckoned. Indeed, 2015 has been punctuated with black people being bold, brave and brilliant at…
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Shocking Findings in Probe of Ga. Police Shootings
Atlanta Reporters Uncover Fate of Victims of Ga. Police “Nearly half the 184 Georgians shot and killed by police since 2010 were unarmed or shot in the back, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 Action News investigation has found,” Brad Schrade and Jennifer Peebles reported Monday for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Those findings emerged from the most extensive…