culture
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Nigerian Tugboat Cook Survives 3 Days at the Bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
A dive team had gone to the sunken tugboat to retrieve bodies. What they found, 100 feet down at the bottom of the Atlantic, was a lone survivor in an air bubble in the sunken vessel. The diver saw a hand, which, he assumed, was that of a corpse, but when a diver reached out…
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Lee Daniels: ‘I Became Very Angry at White People’
Lee Daniels didn’t mince his words during his tribute speech to Forest Whitaker at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, Deadline reports. At one point, the director of The Butler told the crowd, “Forest would[n’t] like to hear all you talking through my speech, so shut the f—k up.” Once the crowd quieted, he commenced to tell…
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Don Lemon Plays ‘Knockout Game’ With ‘Black-Belt Rabbi’
Don Lemon, the highly controversial news anchor, volunteered his neck to Rabbi Gary Moskowitz, aka the “black-belt rabbi,” to demonstrate how helpless victims can defend themselves against rabble-rousers who prey on unsuspecting people in the “knockout game.” Brooke Baldwin, Lemon’s co-anchor, asked “Rambowitz,” as he is called, to demonstrate some of his defense techniques by…
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Detroit Is Officially Bankrupt
It is official: Detroit is bankrupt. On Tuesday, a federal judge gave Detroit the OK to proceed with the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, the New York Times reports. By allowing the city to qualify for bankruptcy, Detroit can dump billions in debt. Judge Steve W. Rhodes said that city met all of the qualifications,…
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White Teen, Black Guardians: Something Must Be Wrong
Landry Thompson has been dancing since she was 7. For the past few years she’s been practicing hip-hop routines in Oklahoma and dreaming about one day being able to travel to Houston to dance with Chachi Gonzales at the Planet Funk Academy. Her parents made that dream come true this past weekend when they allowed…
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Black Friend Paranoid About Racism? No, You Shouldn’t Tell Him
In her final Reddit Ask Me Anything for 2013, our Race Manners columnist, Jenée Desmond-Harris, took readers’ questions about racial etiquette (and a couple on her own experience doling out advice). Should a white friend tell a black friend he’s a little paranoid about racism? And what’s the best way to deal with the drain that…
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Woman Charged With Killing Mother of 3 After Iron Bowl Watch Party
A woman has been formally charged with murder for shooting another woman at a Iron Bowl party in Hoover, Ala., on Saturday, WBRC reports. The 28-year-old suspect, Adrian Laroze Briskey, allegedly shot Michelle Lacette Shepherd, 36, with a small handgun in a parking lot after what was allegedly an argument over Auburn’s last-second victory over…
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Man Arrested in Deaths of Kansas Mom and Kids Still Not Charged
It’s been a week since David Cornell Bennett Jr. was taken into custody, but charges have not yet been filed against the 22-year-old, who is being held on a $5 million bond, the Associated Press reports. Bennett was arrested on Nov. 26 at gunpoint in connection with the deaths of a young Kansas mother and…
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White College Students File Racial-Discrimination Complaint
Three white male students have slapped a black female Minneapolis Community and Technical College professor with a racial-discrimination complaint, causing the professor to be formally reprimanded by school officials for creating a “hostile learning environment,” Salon reports. Shannon Gibney was teaching her class, Introduction to Mass Communication, when the students reportedly reacted in a hostile…
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Elle France Beauty Editor Apologizes for Blackface
You may remember Elle France Beauty Editor Jeanne Deroo, who infamously wore blackface a few weeks ago, complete with an Afro wig. Well, Deroo has since come forward to apologize, via Twitter, International Business Times reports. “I realise how much the fact of painting oneself brown is an offensive act. I didn’t realise the seriousness…