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How Wall Street Can Make Money on Black Progress in America
In May the NAACP announced that Cornell Brooks, a 53-year old lawyer, minister and civil rights activist, would become its 18th president. Somehow, that news did not cause a ripple on the Dow Jones industrial average, the Nasdaq or the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. Imagine Wall Street’s reaction if the NAACP had announced a…
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13 Heroes of #HuskyTwitter You Shouldn’t Overlook
Prince Fielder’s ESPN the Magazine cover showed us a different—and more revealing—side of men who have a little extra to love when he posed nude for the Body Issue of the magazine. Whether it’s his style, smile or sense of humor, there’s something special about an extra-large man whom many admire. Fans using the #HuskyTwitter hashtag…
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Surprised? Even Poor Whites Have It Better Than Blacks
From birth, practically, we’re told—again and again—that education is the golden ticket to the American dream. This is a meritocracy! Study diligently, put the work in and you, too, can get ahead, leapfrogging over your parents on the social strata. All you have to do is grab those bootstraps and pull. Hard. Or not. For…
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Bey-nefactor: Beyoncé Quietly Funded Housing Complex for Homeless in Houston
It turns out that Beyoncé has been a silent benefactor to the less fortunate in her hometown all along, according to Music.Mic. The renowned musician was recently outed by her pastor for giving some $7 million over the past five years to fund a housing complex for the homeless—the Knowles-Temenos Place Apartments—in Houston. “She is…
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Tenn. Mom Sues School After Daughter Claims Teammates Called Her N-Word
A furious Tennessee mom is suing the Sumner County Schools because, she says, the system did not do enough to stop the racist taunts and tirades against her daughter, News Channel 5 reports. Wanda Rice of Hendersonville is claiming that her daughter Shannon, who was a student at the Hendersonville High School and a member…
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Young Mom Suffocates Infant After Reaching ‘Breaking Point’
A young New York mother is facing murder charges after suffocating her infant son to death by wrapping him in a sheet and waiting hours before taking him to the hospital, DNAinfo reports. Nicole Kelly, 22, reportedly told investigators that she was having trouble raising the 11-month-old alone. “I reached my breaking point; I didn’t…
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Jerry Sandusky’s Son Tells Oprah His Story of Abuse: ‘At Bedtime, His Ritual Began’
Matt Sandusky, the adopted son of former Penn State assistant coach and convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky, will appear in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey on July 17 in which he reportedly discusses his personal account of sexual abuse he suffered from Sandusky. According to Philly.com, this will be the first television interview…
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Husband of Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Gets 8 Years in Prison
Apollo Nida, husband of Phaedra Parks, the Southern-fried lawyer who stars on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and was sentenced to eight years in prison, the Associated Press reports. Nida, 35, was also ordered to pay $2.3 million in restitution to victims of the stolen-check-and-tax-return scheme in which Nida was…
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Man Beaten to Death in San Antonio Amtrak Station
“I feel like killing someone.” That is what 21-year-old Michael Joseph Fobbs allegedly said as he paused, only for a minute, in his brutal beating of a 56-year-old Texas man in a San Antonio Amtrak station, Kens5.com reports. With those words, he continued the fatal barrage with his fists in front of a crowd at…
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It’s Time to Stop Asking Whether Women Can Have It All
Can women have it all? If you’re a working woman, you’ve read your fair share of inconclusive articles that seek to answer this sphinxlike mystery. This topic comes up as a national discussion with only slightly less frequency than those “why women—never men—are soooo single” articles. This time the question of women having it all…