culture
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Cam Newton’s Fashion Sense: Hot or Nah?
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is getting major kudos for helping lead his team to a perfect 4-0 record with its win over Tampa Bay Sunday. But what he wears to the postgame news conference has become as newsworthy as what he does on the field. His preference for bright colors, crazy patterns, capri pants…
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Interview: The Knick’s André Holland and Clive Owen Talk Season 2 and How Race Relations Play a Huge Role on the Show
Steven Soderbergh has managed to do something absolutely amazing in his Cinemax series, The Knick. Although the series, starring Clive Owen and André Holland, is set in 1900 New York City, the subject matter tackled in each episode resonates with present-day issues. During The Knick’s first season, we were introduced to the bevy of characters…
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Terrence Southern Wants to Fill the World With Black Scientists
What will it take for African Americans to close the achievement gap in science, technology, engineering and math? It’s a complex issue that experts say involves, among other factors, the public education system, poverty and teachers’ unconscious racial bias. So far, the solutions have been elusive. But there’s a consensus that mentorship is a key.…
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Watch: Woman in Labor Does the Nae Nae
A worker at Ob/Gyn & Midwife Associates in East Point, Ga., was delightfully surprised when she went to check on a first-time mom, who was told to do squats in preparation for delivery. Instead of squats, the mom was inching her way down the hall at Georgia Hospital last week doing the Nae Nae to…
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Dear Black Girl: Letters From the Souls of Black Women
How long has it been since you wrote a letter? Not an inbox message, not an email, not a mega-marathon text that breaks itself up into five installments, but a dear-you, love-me letter? The Beautiful Project, a Durham, N.C.-based collective shifting how black women and girls see themselves and how they’re portrayed in the media,…
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How a Fitness Coach Has Kids Logging In to Get Active
We’ve all heard it before. Kids aren’t active enough. Kids aren’t eating healthily enough. Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years. Michelle Obama has fashioned her whole agenda as first lady around this issue. It’s definitely a problem. Fran Dean Bishop, an accomplished fitness coach…
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My Ex Won’t Move On, and Now He’s Sending Me Texts With a Nude Photo of Me
I broke up with my boyfriend of three years more than six months ago. There was a deal breaker, so I packed my things and moved into an apartment. He’s been persistent about getting back with me, and I’ve been just as persistent in letting him know that I’m done. At this point I don’t…
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How to Get Away With Murder: Better Call Annalise
Annalise Keating’s methods might be questionable, but there’s no denying that the Middleton University professor knows how to get results. She has managed to keep her murdering associates (students and employees alike) out of jail, dispose of a dead body found in her basement, frame her handsome ex-boyfriend and manipulate her lovely ex-girlfriend into defending…
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Scandal Recap: America’s Mistress
On last week’s episode of Scandal, the world finally found out about Fitz Grant and Olivia Pope’s affair when Sally Langston outed them on national TV and had the receipts to prove it. This week’s episode picks up right where we left off. Fitz wants to make a joint statement with Olivia confirming their love to…
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Why I Feel Some Kind of Way About the Pope Meeting Kim Davis
I’m not a Catholic. I have a few rosaries, but mostly because rappers kept wearing them in videos as they referenced Jesus while pouring champagne over some woman’s head at the club, which is the stupidest thing ever. Champagne is not cheap at the club. Especially not the kind they’re pouring on models in the…