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Jackie Robinson: 10 Things You Didn't Know
Most people know that Jackie Robinson became the first African American to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947, and that as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he survived racist attacks from fans, players and even his own teammates to become one of the legends of the game. But…
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NewMe Accelerator's Hank Williams Launches New Venture, Platform
Serial tech entrepreneur Hank Williams announced yesterday his newest venture, Platform , a not-for-profit organization he founded with the Tides Center and several unnamed technologists, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists who are dedicated to increasing the participation and success of underrepresented minorities in the innovation economy. The launch event was hosted at the home of celebrated business…
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What's Bringing Out Racism in Gaming?
According to a study in the latest issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, black gamers suffer racial abuse “on a daily basis” while using Microsoft’s online gaming platform, Xbox Live, the Guardian reports. Researchers followed a group of African Americans who made their race identifiable to other players, and found that their interactions were characterized…
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Not Like My Kind: One Man's Experience With Racism
Kiese Laymon remembers on Gawker the summer when he was a graduate student and he and his girlfriend lived below a poor white family. One day, the cash-strapped family patriarch asked Laymon for $10, and then told him that he wasn’t like his “kind.” After he answered all my questions, Kurt got really close to…
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Why Cops, Community Are at Odds in Brooklyn
(The Root) — It’s 9:30 p.m. on Friday, March 15, in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a gaggle of people have gathered at East 55th Street and Church Avenue to remember Kimani “Kiki” Gray and protest his death. NYPD cars and paddy wagons line Church Avenue and color the heavily West Indian…
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Watch This: 'What the F–k He Ain't … Did' Interrupts Mayor's Speech
We don’t think this is what they mean when they say all citizens should have a voice in politics. This morning, as Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Sly James delivered his State of the City address, an unidentified man stormed the stage, took over the podium and managed to say, “This man had just gotten through…
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Macklemore's Straight, White Position on Bias
This isn’t the first time LGBT issues have been addressed in hip-hop. But it might just be the first time a straight white artist has championed gay rights so fiercely in the genre. Rapper Macklemore’s song “Same Love” tackles injustice with the best of intentions, but is he on the wrong road when he puts…
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'60 Minutes' to Lose Black Reporter to ABC
ABC News is finalizing a deal to hire Byron Pitts of CBS, a contributor to “60 Minutes” and chief national correspondent for the “CBS Evening News, ” according to reliable news reports published Friday. “Pitts will serve as both chief national correspondent and anchor at ABC News, and will appear across the network’s programming. ABC…
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CNN's New Journalism Hires Are All White
CNN President Jeff Zucker met Monday in Atlanta with leaders of the National Association of Black Journalists in the wake of Zucker’s failure to include journalists of color among his first few appointments and the elimination of his “Starting Point” morning show hosted by Soledad O’Brien. NABJ President Gregory H. Lee Jr. said he wanted…
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Tarantino Talks Sequel to 'Basterds' and 'Django'
(The Root) — If you thought Quentin Tarantino was done with historical revenge fantasies after Inglourious Basterds and his latest, Django Unchained — a “postmodern, slave-narrative Western,” in the words of The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr. — you’d be wrong. The spaghetti Western-inspired Django Unchained, for which Tarantino won an Academy Award for…