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14 Black Holidays We Wish Were Real That Are Not Juneteenth, Kwanzaa or MLK Day
Here are 14 new black holidays that deserve your pomp and circumstance.
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Daddy’s Girl: Words to Make the Men Who Raise Queens Feel Like Kings
Father’s Day is here. It’s time to let the love flow in both word and deed in celebration of real men. I’m talking about men who do the work of raising their own biological children and even sometimes, perhaps more significantly, the kids who are not theirs by blood but who belong to them through…
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Stacey Abrams’ Sister Is Engaged to a Man Incarcerated 26 Years for a Rape and Robbery He Didn’t Commit
The story of Leslie’s fiance, Jimmie Gardner, is as extraordinary.
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Obama Doesn’t Owe This Country Shit
Barack Obama is not your Magical Negro. I know y’all want him to be, but you have to give the man a break. He just got out of one of the most abusive eight-year relationships imaginable. I’m sure he needs some time to decompress. There is this thing white people do where they invoke Obama’s…
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People Are Big Mad Over Netflix’s Production Deal With the Obamas
The haters are always gonna hate, and it seems that some people are really big mad that Netflix linked to Barack and Michelle Obama with a deal to produce original TV shows and movies with the streaming service. Long story short: The snowflakes ain’t having it. Of course, this is despite the fact that the…
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Barack and Michelle Obama Have Signed a Multiyear Production Deal With Netflix, Hopefully Ending Our Withdrawal Symptoms
If you have missed getting your fill of common sense and decency since the only first couple that matters left the White House in January 2017, your waiting may soon be over. On Monday, former President Barack Obama officially announced a multiyear production deal with Netflix, in which he and former first lady Michelle Obama…
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Even Melania Trump Misses Former President Barack ‘T’Challa’ Obama
On Saturday, while President Donald von Lazy ThotFace Trump was chilling at his Florida plantation hideaway revamped to look like a luxe golf course, his wife was attending the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush. One would think that the president of the United States—the president who, when he was a civilian, was highly…
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Like Everything Else, Trump Wrecks Travel to Cuba, Too
If you’re like me, practically all of your friends, associates and even one rogue co-worker took a trip to Cuba in the last year (only one, however, brought this writer back a cigar, ahem). Without exception, all loved the island nation filled with black people, salsa and respite from life in the United States, rolled…
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In Event Honoring MLK, Bernie Sanders’ Comments on Race and Barack Obama Raise Eyebrows
There’s a lot to appreciate about Sen. Bernie Sanders, a longtime public servant who’s helped propel truly progressive policies, like a $15 minimum wage and universal health care, into the mainstream political conversation. But one frequent complaint is that the 76-year-old Sanders remains dusty on race matters, and critics of the Vermont senator have more…
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Michelle Obama Compares Trump Administration to Irresponsible Parent Who Lets Kids ‘Eat Candy All Day, Not Follow the Rules’
Michelle Obama has a few choice words about the Trump administration, especially in comparison with her husband’s presidency, one that was more like having a “responsible parent” caring for the household. “I think what we see is what happens when we take things for granted,” Obama told Simmons College President Helen Drinan at the Simmons…
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