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Judge Rejects Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’ Request to Throw Out ‘Blurred Lines’ Lawsuit
Apparently the judge in Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’ lawsuit against Marvin Gaye’s family isn’t seeing any blurred lines when it comes to the law. U.S. District Judge John Kronstadt denied Williams and Thicke’s motion for summary judgment in the “Blurred Lines” lawsuit. Since last year, Gaye’s family has asserted that the song was a…
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Yes, the Harassment Video Has Its Problems—but Mostly, It Shows How Indefensible Street Harassment Is
By now you’ve seen the street-harassment video directed and produced by Rob Bliss and starring Shoshana B. Roberts for the nonprofit organization Hollaback that’s all over the Internet. The two-minute video is cut from 10 hours of footage of Roberts walking through New York City. Throughout her walk she’s harassed by more than 100 men,…
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Street Harassment Is a Problem—No Doubt—but Here’s Why That Video Didn’t Help the Debate
If the instantly notorious street-harassment video was intended to make men more sympathetic to the horrors women deal with on a daily basis, it didn’t succeed. Called simply, “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman,” the video has now been viewed more than 15 million times on its original YouTube page, but it…
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In Defense of Tiny Harris’ New Eye Color
Was I the only one who had absolutely no idea that people could permanently change their eye color with surgery? Apparently I was stuck in the ’90s, thinking that colored contacts, which never look real, were the only option. Who knew? Apparently Tameka “Tiny” Harris—celeb mom, wife of rapper Clifford “T.I.” Harris and reality-TV star—did.…
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Sister2Sister Magazine Files for Bankruptcy
Publisher Says She’ll Focus on Online Edition Sister2Sister, a women’s magazine that focuses on black Hollywood, has filed for bankruptcy protection and put the print edition on hiatus so it can focus on its website, publisher Jamie Foster Brown told Journal-isms. Brown, a onetime secretary to Black Entertainment Television co-founder Robert Johnson whose website describes…
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Philadelphia Cop Caught Threatening Teen on Camera
A Philadelphia police officer faces disciplinary action after threatening a teenager who merely looked him in the eye, NBC10 reports. According to the report, the video, originally published on Facebook Oct. 17, shows a group of teens walking and then the unidentified officer coming up behind the teens and starting to swear. “Big man, do we…
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Autopsy: Vonderrit Myers Jr. Shot 8 Times, 6 Times From Behind
An autopsy shows that 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr., who was fatally shot by an off-duty St. Louis police officer earlier this month, was struck eight times, including six shots from behind, according to the forensic pathologist who performed the independent procedure Thursday. Dr. Cyril Wecht told reporters at a news conference that the autopsy suggests…
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NYPD Officer’s Account of Bronx Man’s Arrest Contradicted by Video
A Bronx man is planning to sue New York City after video obtained by the New York Daily News seemingly corroborates his version of what happened the night of his arrest on April 1. According to the Daily News report, 21-year-old Raymond Romero claims that New York City police officers mistook him for a robber and…
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Black People Riot Over Injustice; White People Riot Over Pumpkins and Football
It’s amazing that more than two months after Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo., no arrests have been made and no trial has been set. That hasn’t stopped the protests and outcries of injustice, but there are those on social media who can’t understand why people are still protesting in Ferguson. Typically…
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Did a Black Man Invent Crest Toothpaste?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 96: Which…