culture
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Book Excerpt: The Civil Rights Movement Was Sometimes Armed—and Not Always Nonviolent
Editor’s note: The African-American civil rights movement is often lauded for its commitment to nonviolence. But it’s not clear that the movement’s aims could have been achieved without the less-often-discussed tradition of armed black self-defense. The history is examined by Charles E. Cobb Jr. in his new book, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns…
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Mandela Writer: 12 Years a Slave ‘Sucked Up All the Guilt’ About Blacks
Blame 12 Years a Slave for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’s lack of critical acclaim. That is what Mandela screenwriter William Nicholson told the Daily Telegraph after the movie was slighted at just about every major movie-awards show. According to Nicholson, 12 Years a Slave “sucked up all the guilt about black people” before Nicholson’s…
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White Teacher Reinstated After Blackface Lesson
A Michigan middle school teacher’s suspension for teaching his eighth-grade class about blackface has ended after almost two weeks. Alan Barron returned to his job at Monroe Middle School on Monday, CBS Detroit reports. Barron, 59, was showing his class a video about how white entertainers used to put on blackface to imitate black people.…
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V. Stiviano Allegedly Assaulted in NYC
Two men allegedly assaulted V. Stiviano Sunday night as she left a restaurant in New York City’s Meatpacking District, CNN reports. Stiviano, famous for her recordings of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s alleged racist rants against black people, which led to his lifetime ban from the NBA, was leaving a restaurant near the…
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Brazilian Soccer Star Pele’s Son Sentenced to 33 Years in Prison
With the World Cup just weeks away and Brazil set to take center stage, that country’s soccer treasure—and arguably the world’s best soccer player—Pele will have a heavy heart: His son, Edson Cholbi do Nascimento, known as Edinho, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for money laundering, The Independent reports. According to the news…
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NYC High School Student Commits Suicide After Being Caught Cheating
A bright and promising high school student was reportedly so ashamed after being caught cheating on an exam that she decided to take her own life, the New York Post reports. Omotayo Adeoye, a 17-year-old student at the High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College, was caught looking at her cellphone during…
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Man Stabs 2 Children in Elevator; 1 Dies
It was almost 6 p.m. on Sunday, and the children had gone down in the elevator of an apartment building in the East New York section of Brooklyn, N.Y., in search of some ice cream. They never made it out. Six-year-old Prince Joshua Avitto, affectionately known as “P.J.,” was found in the elevator, while 7-year-old Mikayla…
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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…