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Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith: Once the Grande Dame of Paris’ Nightclub Scene
In the 1920s and 1930s, Ada “Bricktop” Smith reigned as the grande dame of the Paris nightclub scene. T.S. Eliot wrote a poem for her, and she was a muse to the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, who boasted, “My greatest claim to fame is that I discovered Bricktop before [songwriter] Cole Porter.” It was under…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Awarded ‘Genius’ Grant; It’s a Rare Honor for a Journalist of Color
Foundation Gives 24 Recipients $625,000 Over Five Years Ta-Nehisi Coates, the national correspondent of The Atlantic whose explorations of race have also made him a bestselling author, is among 24 Americans named Tuesday as winners of a MacArthur Fellowship, known as “the genius grant.” “Every year, the MacArthur Foundation selects a crop of extraordinary Americans…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Embrace of Black Lives Matter Is an Example of Moral Leadership
Elizabeth Warren is not running for president. But based on the dazzling speech she recently delivered on racial and economic justice, she most definitely should. Sen. Warren (D-Mass.) furthered our national conversation about race with a bold speech linking racial equality, public policy, economic justice and American history. Warren’s #BlackLivesMatter speech Sunday at the Edward…
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We Do Not Need to Be ‘Saved’ From Empire (or Scandal or HTGAWM or … )
You know those supercool media people who get sent advance copies of entire seasons of certain shows, while everyone else has to watch week-to-week to find out what happens? Well, I am not one of those media people. I fancy myself supercool. But no one sends me s—t. Except requests to review books about natural…
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Watch: Miko Grimes, Wife of Miami Dolphins Cornerback Brent Grimes, Is Arrested
Local radio sports talk show host Miko Grimes, who is also the wife of the Miami Dolphins’ cornerback Brent Grimes, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after a confrontation with officers just outside Sun Life Stadium, the Sun Sentinel reports. It all started when Grimes tried to walk through a restricted…
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Viola Davis Proves She Has More Class Than Nancy Lee Grahn in Response to Grahn’s Criticism
It’s a shame that a soap opera veteran like Nancy Lee Grahn took the low road when Viola Davis made history by becoming the first black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Grahn, who was relatively unknown outside of the soap-opera-fan world, shaded Davis’ win in a Twitter…
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Black TV Reporter in Va. Is Granted Order of Protection Against White Man
Roanoke TV Reporter Was Threatened After WDBJ Killings A black television reporter in Roanoke, Va., who was threatened in the wake of the on-air killings of two WDBJ-TV reporters was granted a protective order Wednesday against the man who made the threats, Cameron Austin reported for the Roanoke Times. The order is to remain in…
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Watch: Brawl Breaks Out at Fla. Publix Supermarket After Customer Allegedly Uses N-Word
Things escalated quickly at a Florida Publix grocery store after a customer was allegedly rude and used racial slurs toward a deli worker while ordering dinner during the Sept. 16 incident, WFLA reports. According to the report, 59-year-old Raleigh Harris was ordering a chicken-wings dinner at a Temple Terrace Publix store when he was allegedly…
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6 Tips on Approaching Women (Without Scaring Them)
According to certain people on the Internets, men just don’t know how to approach women anymore. Because feminism apparently gives these men mixed messages. Or maybe it’s the fear of street-harassment whistles. Or Planned Parenthood. Or Beyoncé’s “7/11” video. Either way, (some) men are apparently confused as hell, because “Hey, it’s probably not the best…
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In a Display of ‘Peak Caucasity,’ a White Man Claims He’s the Reason Another White Man Can Live in Brooklyn, NY
It’s only on depressing days that I need the Internet the most. Not because I obsessively Google phantom ailments (which I do), but because I need to be reminded that all of us—the collective us, not a race us—are better than we let on. It’s that Internet moment of “the kid with the ailment scores…