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Flavorful Fatherhood: Black Celeb Dads
Reading bedtime stories to his daughter so that she would fall asleep did not work in the Jackson household. In an audio recording on YouTube, the actor describes how he used “colorful” language to his daughter Zoe, now 30, to close up shop for the night. “I did say, ‘Go the f—k to sleep’ to…
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Flavorful Fatherhood: Black Celeb Dads
Reading bedtime stories to his daughter so that she would fall asleep did not work in the Jackson household. In an audio recording on YouTube, the actor describes how he used “colorful” language to his daughter Zoe, now 30, to close up shop for the night. “I did say, ‘Go the f—k to sleep’ to…
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Dunkin' Donuts Customer Hurls Racist Slurs Over Not Getting a Receipt
A recent viral video shows the phrase “the customer is always right”, isn’t always true. Taylor Chapman, a 27-year-old woman from Broward County, Florida, can be seen in the video going off on Dunkin’ Donuts workers after claiming an employee the night before didn’t honor the company’s policy of comping her meal after forgetting her receipt.…
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Are Blacks More Relaxed About Privacy?
Majority of Americans Say Security Is the Bigger Priority African Americans are more likely than others to believe that the government should have access to telephone records, monitor email and investigate possible terrorist threats even if it intrudes on privacy concerns, according to a poll released Monday by the Pew Research Center and the Washington…
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50 Years After George Wallace's Stand
(The Root) — Fifteen years after Vivian Malone and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama, I had my first day of classes in August of 1978 at the “Capstone of Higher Education” — the state’s flagship. On June 11, 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, an iconic segregationist, stood in the door…
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Medgar Evers: Legacy Challenged
(The Root) — Wednesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, and the timing couldn’t be more significant: Any day now, the Supreme Court could strike down a pair of landmark remedies owed in part to Evers’ activism. Uncertainty hovers over observances that began at Evers’ grave site…
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British Get a Dose of Race in America
(The Root) — The other night I went to see Race, by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright David Mamet at London’s Hampstead Theatre. The play is a profoundly intelligent, visceral and highly incendiary legal drama that deftly skewers, mercilessly punctures and audaciously lacerates its audience with a crushingly pessimistic assessment of the place of race in…
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The World
Although Miguel was wrong (more on this soon), it’s not hard to see why a person might believe what he said. We collectively possess many positive attributes. We’re (generally) great at picking up the words of songs we’ve never heard before while in church, we’re (generally) forgiving (well, forgiving of men and boys, at least), and we’re…
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Butt-Dialing Pizza Man's Racist Songs
The CEO of Papa John’s has apologized to a Sanford, Fla., customer after a deliveryman accidentally dialed the man’s voice mail after dropping off an order and left a singing voice mail consisting largely of n-word remixes of The Barber of Seville and Rhythm Heritage’s “Theme From SWAT,” Mediaite reports. The apology came after a…
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'Menace II Society': Where Are They Now?
On May 26, 1993, a gritty, violent crime drama set in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles and directed by twin brothers named Allen and Albert Hughes opened in theaters. Critics loved it, and in the 20 years since it was released, the film, which follows a teenage drug dealer who commits heinous crimes with…