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Thug Kitchen: A Recipe in Blackface
When I first clicked through the recipes at Thug Kitchen, a tongue-in-cheek, vegan cooking blog served up with a heaping side of expletives, I imagined a calorie-conscious, gangly young black man who’s particularly vehement about clean eating, insistently tapping recipes into his blog while Dead Prez reverberates in the background. He has a good eye,…
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Who Were the 1st Black Federal Court Judges?
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. 93: How did black justices break…
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NY Times’ Executive Editor Says ‘Angry Black Woman’ Story Was Supposed to Debunk Stereotypes
Alessandra Stanley Tried “to Make a Profound Point” New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet made his first public comments on the “Angry Black Woman” story, telling Public Editor Margaret Sullivan in a blog item Wednesday that writer Alessandra Stanley “was trying to make a profound point” about breaking down stereotypes of black women, but…
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NY Times Culture Editor: Shonda Rhimes Story Reminds Us of Our Blind Spots
Racial “Blind Spots” Acknowledged at N.Y. Times The culture editor of the New York Times said Monday of the criticism over the Times story that called television series creator Shonda Rhimes an “angry black woman”: Public Editor Responds on “Angry Black Woman” Story “This is a signal to me that we have to constantly remind ourselves…
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Watch This Woman Fulfill Every Unhappy Employee’s Dream
Editor’s note: The video contains language that some may find offensive. Most employees tend to give their employers two weeks’ notice, but Alaskan television reporter Charlo Greene resigned from her job a bit more abruptly … and publicly. According to Raw Story, the KTVA-TV reporter was reporting on the Alaska Cannabis Club during Sunday night’s broadcast when…
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NY Times TV Critic Defends ‘Angry Black Woman’ Story
Questionable Framing of Story on “Scandal” Creator It was just three weeks ago that the New York Times was vilified over a story calling the slain 18-year-old Michael Brown “no angel,” a mistake partly attributed to insensitive editing. On Friday, critics paid and unpaid leaped on a Times story in which the error was not just…
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Once He Put His Hands on Me, I Never Went Back
We’ve all been there. Back in college, I thought I’d found “the one.” But after he physically abused me, I never saw him again, so you can imagine my disbelief when, not too long ago, I saw a Facebook message from his “cousin”: “Hope all is well. Call X.” And now, in the wake of…
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Local Wis. GOP Candidate Withdraws From Race Over Racist, Homophobic Social Media Messages
One Wisconsin Republican’s past has caught up with him in a horrible way, and he has dropped out of the race for a state Assembly seat after admitting to using racist and homophobic slurs in social media messages, acccording to Talking Points Memo. Jacob Dorsey, a 19-year-old who was running against Democratic state Rep. Deb…
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Rihanna Gives CBS Sports the Middle Finger for Pulling Her Song
Last week, on the heels of the video being released that showed former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice knocking out his wife, CBS canceled a prerecorded segment featuring Rihanna that was set to run on the opening night of Thursday Night Football. “Run This Town,” a collaboration between Rihanna and Jay Z, was supposed to be TNF’s…
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Robin Thicke Admits to Being High on Vicodin and Alcohol While Making ‘Blurred Lines’
Since being released in March 2013, Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines” has been mired in controversy, not only because of the lyrics that some people perceive as being “rapey” but also because of the allegations that the song is a blatant rip-off of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.” Thicke, along with Pharrell Williams and…