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Jussie Smollett Wants Viewers to Hang in There With Empire
Jussie Smollett knows that things went off the rails a little bit in Empire, but he’s asking the show’s fan base to hang in there because things will come full circle at the end of the season. “I understand the backlash,” Smollett said during an interview with Essence. He was referring to how the ratings…
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Pie That Doesn’t Melt, Lacrosse and Other White-People Stuff
Don’t let my Neon Carrot-crayon complexion fool you. Both of my parents are Negroes. Mind you, they’re also Neon Carrot Negroes: Pops is Louisiana Creole—a (literal) cotton-picking product of the rural Jim Crow South. Mama was raised around the housing project culture of Detroit in the 1950s and ’60s. I was born in Detroit near…
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Hillary Clinton: Better for Black People Than Obama?
Editor’s note: In an article titled “Yes She Can,” a play on President Barack Obama’s inspiring 2008 campaign slogan, Michael Eric Dyson writes for the New Republic of his conversion to the belief that Hillary Clinton will do more for black people than the president himself. Calling himself a skeptic after a series of questionable…
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Shocking Chicago Video Released After Legal Challenge by Media
Officer Unloaded Gun on Black Teen 16 Times in 15 Seconds The shocking and disturbing video showing the fatal police shooting of a black Chicago teenager was released Tuesday only after lawsuits by journalists and news organizations — a yearlong delay that has prompted criticism of the city’s black leadership, others in the media, and…
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Killer Mike Wants You to Back Bernie Sanders
Earlier this week, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was parlayin’ with Killer Mike, throwing up what could inevitably be mistaken for gang signs, and going to soul food restaurants in “the A” like it was just a typical day in the hood. Now, if that’s not a white man trying to assimilate into blackness, I don’t…
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A Very Blunt Samuel L. Jackson Kind of Trolls Will Smith During This Interview—but in a Good Way
Will Smith is this insightful, poetic guy who always has such profound things to say about life and career and love and marriage. Samuel L. Jackson is also a guy who comes at issues and topics from a unique angle, except he’s far more blunt and doesn’t sugarcoat anything. To my mind, Smith likes to…
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Maybe You’re Single Because You’re Wack
Perhaps it’s not them and the dating pool isn’t filled with pee…it’s just you.
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19 Cops Showed Up at a Black Calif. Businesswoman’s Apartment After a White Neighbor Reported a Possible Burglary
A California businesswoman gave a harrowing first-person account of her encounter with the Santa Monica, Calif., Police Department in the Washington Post, detailing how 19 officers arrived at her apartment after a white neighbor reported a possible burglary. Fay Wells, the vice president of strategy at a California company, told of how she accidentally locked…
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As Newspapers Include More Social Media Stories to Keep Up With the Times, Some Content Shocks Traditional Readers
New on Editorial Page: Thuggish Poses Palm Beach Post Takes Readers to Deadly “Facebook Wars” Pictures of young black men pointing guns and flashing cash aren’t the usual fare for editorial pages, but that’s what readers of the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post and its website saw in September — and the photos came from the…
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The 10 Blackest Things President Obama Has Done While in Office
When President Barack Obama found a way to incorporate “folks wanna pop off” at an international press conference Monday to address people with misinformation, it was just the latest confirmation of something many of us have suspected for some time: that the president, fully secured in his second and last term in office, is not…