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Katt Williams' Anti-Mexican Rant
At a stand-up performance in Phoenix on Saturday, comedian Katt Williams got heckled by an audience member of Mexican descent and responded by straying from his routine to launch into a barrage of insults all focused on national origin and ethnicity. Many are calling the incident his “Michael Richards moment,” in a nod to the…
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MLK Knew the Nation Was Not Ready to Celebrate
Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley reflects on troubling events leading up to the cancellation of the dedication ceremony for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial. I cannot imagine what King must have felt watching us the past few years. I cannot imagine his reaction to what has happened to the movement to…
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Remembering Dr. Frank Hale, 84
Dr. Frank Hale, a pioneer in making graduate education accessible to African Americans, was remembered in a seven-hour funeral service last week in Columbus, Ohio. Some 36 speakers — including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Samuel DuBois Cook, president emeritus of Dillard University — lauded Hale, the charming visionary whose 60-year career left a bold,…
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MLK Memorial Events Calendar
Update: Please note that the dates of the dedication and a number of the preceding events have been postponed due to weather forecasts. We’ll bring you the latest details as they unfold. Earlier: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, more than 15 years in the making, finally opens to the public on Aug. 22.…
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Cyberwar Erupts in Mississippi Killing
The Huffington Post is reporting that a cyberwar is breaking out over the alleged hate-crime murder of James Craig Anderson in Mississippi. It’s no wonder. The vicious murder captured on video ignited passions across the globe. Many are using the Internet as an outlet to express their emotions. They are responding to what law-enforcement officials…
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VIDEO: Mississippi Hate Crime Caught on Video
Editor’s note: The video and following story contains language that some readers may consider offensive. (NSFW) CNN is reporting the alleged hate crime of James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, who was beaten and then murdered by a group of white teens intent on hurting a black person. Deryl Dedmon Jr., 18, of…
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Spike Lee Through the Years
Many assume that the filmmaker was born in New York, but Shelton Jackson Lee, nicknamed Spike by his mother, was born in pre-civil rights Atlanta to Jacqueline Carroll, an art teacher, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician. When he was 2 years old, his family moved to the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn,…
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Alt Weeklies: Dancing Around Diversity?
Alternative Press Concedes Its Readers Are “So White” If the sight of the Tyronne Foster & The Arc Singers gospel choir performing in a bar did not signal that this was not your ordinary journalism convention, then maybe the burlesque dancers, not to be called strippers, the magic act and the swinging New Orleans brass…
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Black Valedictorian Can't Be Top Student?
Kymberly Wimberly was the top student at McGehee Secondary School in Little Rock, Ark. As is customary, the school named her valedictorian. Shortly after, the school’s principal, Darrell Thompson, appointed a white student with a lower grade point average as co-valedictorian to avoid a “big mess” at the majority white school. For some reason, the…
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Justice Nixes New Malcolm X Murder Probe
The best-selling and controversial biography of Malcolm X by the late Manning Marable renewed long-standing questions about whether the right men were convicted of the murder of the civil rights leader in 1965. But those who hoped for a new probe were sorely disappointed Saturday when a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department said that…