culture
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We Create More Jobs When Black-Women-Owned Businesses Succeed
Each month I discuss the monthly U.S. Department of Labor jobs report on CNBC’s Power Lunch, and the findings are often bittersweet. Economists generally feel that our country is making progress. In fact, this summer, unemployment reached its lowest rate in six years—hovering close to 6 percent. Yet somehow, this improving trend continues to leave…
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Former Harlem Globetrotter Goes Missing During Road Trip
A former Harlem Globetrotter who was making the 1,100-mile trek from California to Seattle to be with his longtime girlfriend has been missing for more than a week, and police are turning to the public for help, news station KTLA reports. Rico Omarr Harris, 37, called his mother Oct. 10 to tell her that he…
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United Nations: Detroit Water Shutoffs Violate Human Rights
There’s a new player in Detroit who wants to bring attention to how the city has shut off the running water in thousands of homes because residents have been unable to pay their water bill. The water shutoff caused an outcry earlier this year from folks who believe the city’s response was severe and inhumane. Now the United…
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Now the NAACP and Family Lawyers Are Looking Into Lennon Lacy’s Hanging Death
On Monday night, lawyers Al McSurely and Allen Rogers met with Claudia Lacy and Larry Walton to discuss the next step in the investigation into what McSurely called “the probable murder” of Lacy and Walton’s 17-year-old son, Lennon Lacy. While the parents of boys like Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis waged uphill battles hoping to…
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Pennsylvania’s Attempt to Silence Prison Activist Mumia Abu-Jamal
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett just signed a new law that allows convicted prisoners to be sued by their victims for “seeking publicity or money.” Corbett made a point of signing it at an infamous Philadelphia street corner: 13th and Locust. It’s where Mumia Abu-Jamal, a part-time radio journalist driving a cab on Dec. 9, 1981,…
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Black Woman Behind Wasabi-Ginger Potato Chips Takes Home Grand Prize
Meneko Spigner McBeth’s bank account is about to have quite a few additional zeros. On Monday night, Frito-Lay announced that McBeth, a registered nurse, was the winner of its “Do Us a Flavor” contest to create a new potato chip flavor, reports NBC4 New York. McBeth’s winning idea for wasabi-ginger chips beat out entries for cappuccino,…
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Rwanda to Screen Travelers From the United States
Rwanda, an East African nation far away from the Ebola outbreak, has now begun to screen visitors from the U.S. and other places that have had cases of Eboa, according to a message posted on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda. The announcement comes shortly after a New Jersey elementary school announced that two…
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Missouri State Senator Arrested During Protest in Ferguson
Missouri state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed was arrested Monday night during a protest outside the Ferguson, Mo., police station, St. Louis County police have confirmed, according to the New York Daily News. Nasheed, who was reportedly walking and standing in the street, was told by officers that she could not protest there and was eventually arrested,…
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ESPN Host: Rape Charges Helped Kobe Bryant ‘Sizzle’
Looks like the guys over at ESPN’s First Take may need to take sensitivity courses in women’s issues ASAP, especially if they’re going to venture into issues involving domestic violence and rape. Just a few months back, Stephen A. Smith alluded to the fact that women shouldn’t provoke men into violent confrontations. Now Skip Bayless believes…
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Georgia Man Given 20-Year Sentence for Stealing Teen’s iPod
A 20-year-old Georgia man who stole a teenager’s iPod was found guilty of aggravated assault and robbery and given a 20-year sentence last week after he admitted to taking the teen’s device during the trial. According to reports given to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Shareef Tawwab Hakim of Marietta approached the 16-year-old victim outside his apartment…