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Former Reporter Who Quit on Air Gets Her Wish: Marijuana Is Now Legal in Alaska
Remember that Alaskan television reporter Charlo Greene who made news after very publicly (and abruptly) quitting her job on air with a resounding “f—k it” to further her work in legalizing marijuana as the president of the Alaska Cannabis Club? Well, Greene’s dream came true on Tuesday when Alaska became the third state in the…
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Reconstruction-Era Voting-Rights Activist Claimed by an Assassin’s Bullet
In the late 1940s, a historian predicted that one day all of Mississippi’s schoolchildren, black and white, would come to know the name of Charles Caldwell, who gave his life during the Reconstruction struggle for black citizenship, economic opportunity and equal rights for women. It was a bold prediction at a time when the textbooks of…
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Texas Man Apologizes After Spitting on Windshield and Yelling, ‘F–k You. Black Power,’ in Road Rage Incident
A Texas man’s road rage incident has gone viral after a white woman posted footage of him scaring her and her child. Rashaad Ben was captured on camera by Julie Nowlin as he veered from lane to lane on an Austin highway; once Ben realized he was being recorded, he became irate. The video shows…
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David Carr Mentored Young Black Journalists
N.Y. Times Columnist Boosted Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jelani Cobb David Carr, the New York Times media critic who died suddenly Thursday at 58, was also a nurturer of young black journalists, some of whom were quick to pay tribute to him. Carr spoke of his commitment in a 2008 article in the Times advocating for paid…
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Miss. Judge Delivers Lesson to Men Sentenced in ‘Jim Crow-Style Lynching’
A federal District Court judge in Mississippi delivered a powerful lesson last week to two men sentenced in the brutal 2011 death of a 49-year-old auto-plant worker, which occurred after the two men decided to “go [f—k] with some [n—gers],” according to Raw Story, which cites various media reports. Three of the defendants—Deryl Dedmon, Dylan…
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I Just Was Not That Into Rap Music…Until I Heard The College Dropout
This is an embarrassing thing to admit, but the first rap album I ever owned was Beware of Dog by Lil’ Bow Wow. In my defense, I was young and that “Puppy Love” video was lit. But I still cringe thinking about it — my early insistence that Shad Moss was the GOAT — especially…
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"Straight Outta Compton" and The Gang Called N*ggaz With Attitudes
Y’all gon’ have to excuse me for a second because I’m about to go full fanboy. NWA is my favorite rap group of all time. I love Outkast. I love Mobb Deep. I respect the hell out of Run-DMC. But NWA? That’s how you do group. I’ve written about how I discovered a lot of…
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Kendrick Lamar, And The Beauty Of Black Rage
Yesterday, Kendrick Lamar dropped “The Blacker The Berry” — one of the most beautifully angry rap songs we’ve ever heard. He’s furious, and it’s fantastic, and we needed to talk about it. 1. This song is an exercise in compelling writing. Not just song writing. Writing period. I wanted to READ the lyrics while listening…
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Rapper Azealia Banks Has a Problem With Gay Men
Two years ago Azealia Banks had a point about gay media and its portrayal of her as homophobic in light of her use of the word “f—got.” Though I did not agree with her, she was right in noting that some celebrities—i.e., the white ones who either are a part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual…
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Whites, Men and Republicans More Likely Than Others to Support Charlie Hebdo’s Prophet Muhammad Cartoons
U.S. Nonwhites Opposed Publishing Muhammad Cartoons A month after the attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in a three-day jihadist assault that, in all, left 17 people dead, a racial split has emerged over whether the magazine should have published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, according to the Pew Research…