culture
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Donald Sterling Goes to a Black Baptist Church (This Is Not a Joke)
Donald Sterling walks into a black church … no, seriously: Donald Sterling the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner walked into a South Los Angeles church and sat for a two-hour service Sunday, TMZ reports. It is unclear if Sterling, who arrived at the Praises of Zion Baptist church with bodyguards, came for any other reason…
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Justin Bieber Apologizes for Racist Joke
Justin Bieber told a joke; a bad joke that included him saying the n-word several times. It was taped and recorded and released to the public. Now “The Biebs” has apologized. According to TMZ the recording is from 2009 when Bieber was only 15. Bieber told the gossip site in a statement, “As a kid,…
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Teacher Who Reportedly Has AIDS Is Accused of Having Sex With Student
A 37-year-old Louisiana schoolteacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old male student and knowingly exposing him to the AIDS virus, WWLTV reports. According to news station, sheriff’s deputies arrested Derrick Nesby last week at H.L. Bourgeois High School, the Terrebonne Parish school where he teaches and is also the track coach. “We…
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Why Women Can’t Hide From Men
On Memorial Day, we had four encounters with men. We: three women—my mother, my daughter and I—walking near Washington Circle Park, hungry after checking out of the hotel in Washington, D.C., where I’d booked a one-night stay. They: everywhere. The first man did not ask for money; the sign propped against him on the sidewalk…
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Justin Bieber Tells N-Word Joke on Video
TMZ on Sunday posted a video of a 15-year-old Justin Bieber, who is now 20, telling a racist joke to friends. “Why are black people afraid of chain saws?” he asks in the video that first surfaced Sunday on a British pay site, TMZ reports. His punchline: “Run n—ger,” repeatedly saying the n-word while laughing.…
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District Suspends White Teacher Over Blackface Lesson
A Michigan community is rallying behind a teacher who was suspended after showing a video of white entertainers in blackface during an African-American history lesson, according to the Monroe News. The white teacher, Alan Barron, 59, showed his Monroe Middle School eighth-grade class a video of how white people used blackface to imitate African Americans…
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V. Stiviano Mocks Blacks in Reality TV Video
Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling’s world was turned upside down last month when an audio recording surfaced of him making racist remarks to his companion V. Stiviano. The comments prompted the NBA to ban him for life and force him to sell the team. Now it appears that turnabout is fairplay after Stiviano herself…
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6 Cleveland Police Officers Indicted in Shooting Deaths of 2 Unarmed Suspects
A grand jury has indicted six Cleveland police officers in the deaths of two unarmed suspects, who were killed in a spray of 137 bullets after a wild car chase that ended in a schoolyard, the Associated Press reports. The indictment on Friday is part of a far-reaching federal investigation into “the Cleveland Police Department’s…
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The Annoyingly Effective Ways African and Caribbean Parents Get Their Kids to Get A’s
Social media have been inundated with news reports about those brilliant high school students who gained admission to a boatload of Ivy League schools. That many of them are first-generation black Americans (children whose parents come from countries in Africa or the Caribbean) made headlines, too. Not to mention that “Tiger Mom” Amy Chua put…
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Black Men Urge Obama to Add Females to My Brother’s Keeper
Doctors, lawyers, security guards and professors are among more than 200 African-American men who signed an open letter to President Barack Obama urging him to include women and girls in his far-reaching My Brother’s Keeper initiative. The letter at African American Policy Forum comes on the heels of an announcement Friday by the president that…