culture
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Colin Powell’s Throwback Thursday Selfie Is a Must-See
Colin Powell took to Facebook on “Throwback Thursday” to show the youngsters and Ellen DeGeneres that they had nothing on him when it comes to taking selfies. DeGeneres currently holds the record for most retweeted photo ever for the impromptu selfie she organized at the Academy Awards earlier last month. “I was doing selfies 60…
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Kendrick Johnson’s Classmates Called to Testify in Federal Grand Jury Investigation
A federal grand jury investigating the 2013 death of high school teen Kendrick Johnson, who was found inside a rolled gym mat, have subpoenaed former schoolmates and their parents, according to sources with knowledge of the subpoenas, CNN reports. According to a CNN source with knowledge of the investigation, the FBI—which launched an investigation four…
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Man Dies 2 Weeks After Being Pronounced Dead
The Mississippi man who was erroneously pronounced dead two weeks ago, but began kicking inside the body bag at the funeral home, passed away on Thursday, a coroner said, Reuters reports. “I think he’s gone this time,” nephew Eddie Hester told a local television station. Walter Williams, 78, had a brush with death a mere…
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How the Communal Experience of Music Has Changed
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Professor Guthrie Ramsey Jr. to talk about how music today is made, shared and studied. Ramsey is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania and recently published The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and…
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It’s Time to Quit Operating on CP Time
I received this text message from a dear friend of mine last weekend: “You usually don’t ask dumb questions. But this will go down as one of them.” She was responding to a text I’d just sent, asking her a pretty innocent question. It was certainly one that on the surface wouldn’t seem to elicit such…
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Your Threats to Leave Won’t Stop Your Husband’s Infidelities
My husband has cheated on me a couple of times. I told him if anything happens ever again, I’m going to divorce him. My heart is broken, and I have nightmares about this chick. I don’t know how to trust him. I love him and want it to work, but I don’t know how this…
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Maryland Mall Shooter Was Obsessed With Columbine
The 19-year-old gunman who killed two people at Columbia Mall in Maryland in January was fascinated by the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado—to the point of dressing like one of those gunmen, the Associated Press reports. Investigators say they found thousands of searches on Darion Aguilar’s computer relating to mass murder, school shootings, guns…
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Tyson Beckford’s Nephew Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder in DUI Crash
Domonic Whilby, the 23-year-old nephew of model Tyson Beckford, now faces possible life imprisonment for a drunken February crash that resulted in the death of veteran New York City bus driver William Pena, the Daily News reports. Whilby’s charges were upgraded on Wednesday at a Manhattan Supreme Court hearing. The indictment now includes murder, aggravated…
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Rep. Charlie Rangel Calls Building Explosion Harlem’s 9/11
It’s Harlem’s own 9/11. That’s how Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) would describe the Wednesday building explosion in his home district that stunned the public, Politico reports. “I’ve never had anything this horrific that’s happened in my community since I’ve been in Washington,” Rangel told an NBC affiliate in New York, as news continued to break…
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George Zimmerman’s Parents Suing Rosanne Barr
Turns out Spike Lee wasn’t the only celebrity who let his rage toward George Zimmerman lead to an ill-advised address tweet. Actress Roseanne Barr is being sued by Zimmerman’s parents in Florida, who claim a Twitter post she made listing their address and telephone number forced them to flee their home, AP reports. Robert and…