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Jon Stewart Pokes Fun at McCain’s Obama-Hitler Comparison
Comedian Jon Stewart had a field day Tuesday, poking fun at the American media and others for blowing the handshake between President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro out of proportion. “Barack Obama [was] at a memorial celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela, a man whose legacy is that he forgave and embraced his…
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Mandela Was a Revolutionary, Not a ‘Lovable Cardboard Character’
“More than 2,500 foreign press are expected to visit South Africa to cover the memorial services and funeral this week of the man described as ‘the father of the nation‘,” according to South Africa’s Channel 24. The memorial service began Tuesday at 4 a.m. EST (11 a.m. Johannesburg time) and was scheduled to be repeated…
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Black Fashion Student Claims Hasidic Men Attacked Him
A black fashion student was allegedly attacked by a gang of more than a dozen Hasidic men while walking through a Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood after a night of partying, the Daily News reports. Taj Patterson was headed home on Dec. 1 when, he claims, he was surrounded by the Orthodox Jewish men, who began assaulting…
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Fired BP Exec Told to Save Braids and Dashiki for Black History Month
A former BP executive has sued her former employer in California’s Orange County Superior Court, saying she was fired by British Petroleum Oil Co. and replaced with a younger white male, after a series of racial complaints, the Courthouse News Service reports. Melphine Evans filed the suit against BP West Coast Products, BP Products North…
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Mandela: The Media’s Prince Charming
Nelson Mandela had a way with journalists. Charlayne Hunter-Gault became part of the coverage of Mandela’s death Thursday as an interview subject and a news analyst. Her early visits to apartheid-era South Africa left her with a bond of familiarity, she told Al Sharpton on his MSNBC “PoliticsNation” show shortly after the news that Mandela had…
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How Obama Has Changed Black Journalists
Left of Black host and Duke professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by The Root’s own David Swerdlick, who talks about modern journalism and President Obama’s influence on his career. Later, Neal is joined by journalist and playwright Esther Armah to discuss her Emotional Justice project and its holiday campaign for forgiveness, “The ‘F’ Word.”…
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Is Kanye West Losing It?
The colossally egocentric self-proclaimed genius who subjects concertgoers to his “visionary stream of consciousness” rants during his performances may be wearing his audience thin. On Tuesday, Kanye West’s roadside attraction of a hip-hop concert played to fewer than 4,500 people at the Sprint Center in Kanas City, a venue that holds 19,000. It’s a paltry…
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Lee Daniels: ‘I Became Very Angry at White People’
Lee Daniels didn’t mince his words during his tribute speech to Forest Whitaker at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, Deadline reports. At one point, the director of The Butler told the crowd, “Forest would[n’t] like to hear all you talking through my speech, so shut the f—k up.” Once the crowd quieted, he commenced to tell…
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Woman Killed After Posting Eerie Facebook Message
On Nov. 25, Michelle Rowling of East St. Louis posted a cryptic Facebook status. “If anything happens to me tonight just let my kids know I loved them dearly and tell my momma I love her.” Rowland was stabbed to death less than one week later. The post, according to the St. Clair County State’s…
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Bob Dylan Charged With Racism
Bob Dylan is being sued by a Croatian community group in France on charges of racism for remarks that appeared in Rolling Stone, according to Business Insider. Dylan, who was among a coterie of folk-rock artists involved in the civil rights movement, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012. The medal is the country’s…