culture
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My Daughter Wants Me to Find Her a New Mom
I hate to use the term “acting out,” so I’ll say that my 3-year-old daughter is expressing a brand-new feeling that she doesn’t know how to articulate: heartbreak. And maybe even desperation. It’s understandable. She wants a mother. This is just the latest development in what’s been a long, and often hard, story for our…
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Meet 3 of the Internet’s Young Black Stars
On Wednesday at 8 p.m. EDT, join us for our live “Young, Black and Viral” Google Hangout, where we’ll be chatting with three of the Internet’s most influential young black creators. We’ll be joined by the following folks: Xavier D’Leau, executive producer of the award-winning Web series Quarter Century and host of the top-charting podcast…
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Man Who Filmed Eric Garner Video Arrested on Weapons Charge
The 22-year-old bystander who filmed Eric Garner’s fatal arrest was arrested Saturday on a charge of gun possession, Staten Live reports. The man, Ramsey Orta, and a teenage woman, identified by police as Alba Lekaj, were arrested about 10 p.m. after leaving a hotel in Staten Island, N.Y., the report says. The arrests came after officers…
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Blood Orange Says Racism Behind Lollapalooza Security Assault
Decked in a T-Shirt emblazoned with the names of murdered black men, including Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin, British singer and producer Devonté Hynes alleges he was attacked by security guards after a recent performance at Lollapalooza, Buzzfeed reports. Hynes, known as Blood Orange, announced on Twitter that he and his girlfriend, Samantha Urbani, were assaulted…
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Doctor With Ebola Arrives in Atlanta for Treatment
The first Ebola victim brought to the United States from Africa arrived in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday amid hysteria and outrage from some Americans concerned that the deadly disease could escape an isolation unit at one of the nation’s top hospitals and spread, the Associated Press reports. Dr. Kent Brantly, a missionary doctor who was infected…
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Houston Funeral Home Apologizes to Family After Burying Wrong Woman
Bruce Lawson thought he was bidding farewell to his 81-year-old mother last week at her funeral in Houston, Texas, KHOU11 reports. That’s why he was surprised when he received a call several days later saying her body was still at the funeral home, the report says. Mabrie Memorial Mortuary was calling to apologize, the news…
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Watch: NYPD Cops Probed in Alleged Dragging of Half-Naked Mom Into Hall
In the aftermath of the choke hold death of Eric Garner, some more officers with the New York Police Department may be in hot water after allegedly dragging a half-naked Brooklyn, N.Y., woman into the hall after responding to a domestic disturbance call, the New York Daily News reports. A police spokesman told the News…
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Sharpton Plans March in Response to Homicide Ruling in Death of Eric Garner
Update: Saturday, Aug. 2, 2:53 p.m. EST: The Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday that he will lead a protest “march across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City later this month in response to a medical examiner’s ruling that Eric Garner was the victim of a homicide after police placed him in a chokehold last…
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Why Whites Are Wanted to Play at a Chicago Park
In a city known for its racially segregated communities, residents in a neighborhood in Chicago’s Hermosa community on the Northwest Side are pushing for integration for personal reasons, according to a note scrawled on a sign. “Wanted white people to play so the city will take care of this park,” the sign reads, according to…
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Inside James Brown’s Fatherly Relationship With Al Sharpton
On May 6, 1981, James Brown appeared with boxing legend Muhammad Ali on the late-night Tom Snyder show to introduce a young and unknown civil rights leader to the world. That young activist was the Rev. Al Sharpton, and he was Brown’s kind of black leader. The two had become fast friends during the 1970s and…