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A Bittersweet Tribute to Black Womanhood
“Where are the ants?” It’s Mother’s Day. My mother has come to New York to spend the weekend with me, her only child. After a rooftop brunch, I insist that we swing through the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., to see Kara Walker’s latest art exhibit, “A Subtlety” (or “The Marvelous Sugar Baby”). I’m especially…
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NFL Player Charged With Beating Girlfriend Over Previous Ties to Nelly
Greg Hardy, a defensive lineman with the Carolina Panthers, was arrested on Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C., on assault charges. Hardy allegedly assaulted his girlfriend Nicole Holder, who also says he threatened to kill her, according to the Charlotte Observer. Holder stated that Hardy threw her on a on a couch covered with firearms. She also…
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When a Police Commissioner Calls Obama the N-Word, It’s Time for Mandatory Diversity Training
Here we go again. Someone in a position of authority has said something racist. More specifically, something racist about President Barack Obama, and gotten caught. Only this time the person didn’t make a fried-chicken or watermelon joke, or call the commander in chief “boy.” He actually used the n-word. And did I mention this authority…
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Aaron Hernandez Indicted Again—This Time for 2012 Double Murder
Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been slapped with two more homicide charges in the shooting deaths of two men in Boston in 2012, according to Yahoo Sports. A Suffolk County, Mass., grand jury returned the indictment against Hernandez, who is already in custody and awaiting trial on first-degree murder charges for the 2013…
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New Donald Sterling Rant Leaked: Claims V. Stiviano Is the Real Racist
The Donald Sterling tapes just won’t stop. Maybe he should stop speaking to anyone who isn’t his lawyer? At any rate, the Daily Mail received new recordings of the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner allegedly speaking to his friend, black hip-hop artist Maserati, who leaked the conversation. According to the news site, the artist did…
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The NFL Is Not Ready for Michael Sam: His Kiss Disgusts Fellow Player
The News: The National Football League’s first openly gay player has drawn a wide range of reactions, from the admiration of President Barack Obama to the disgust of at least one other player. On Sunday Obama congratulated University of Missouri defensive lineman Michael Sam on his selection by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh and final…
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Michael Sam: What He Means to Young Gay Black Men
For every gay black boy on a playground, basketball court or football field across the country who is derided by his peers as a “f—got” or “sissy”—excluded from games and told he has no place on the team—Michael Sam is a living example that not only can they play, but they can win. “Can Michael…
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Jet Magazine Goes 100 Percent Digital
“Everything Is Moving Faster,” Publisher Says, Quoting Dad Jet magazine, a staple in black homes, beauty parlors and barber shops since 1951, is ending print publication at the end of June and becoming a digital magazine app, Johnson Publishing Co. announced on Wednesday. The transition marks an accommodation to the Internet age, during which the…
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Do We Really Want Another Sterling as a Clippers Owner?
If the NBA really wants to get tough on racism and dish out lifetime bans and make a stand against bigotry, then the only recourse it has is to move the franchise out of Sterling control—and not just Donald Sterling’s but the entire Sterling clan’s. On Thursday his wife, Shelly Sterling, announced that she wants to take…
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Monica Lewinsky in Vanity Fair: The 5 Most Fascinating Revelations
I’m a nerd and a journalist. Even if I were not the latter, I would still be the former, and that means, even if I were not writing this story for publication, I still would have cut my Wednesday night short to sit not so patiently until midnight with my iPhone, waiting for Vanity Fair…