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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has heard enough about Barneys and Macy’s and is launching a probe into both upscale retail giants after four complaints detailing racial profiling surfaced in the past week, the Daily News reports. Letters were sent to executives of both companies asking for their practices when determining whom to stop, detain…

Looks like Tiger Woods and EA Sports have broken up. The video-game company and the golfer have agreed to go their separate ways, and the split appears to be mutual, the Huffington Post reports. “We had an incredible run,” Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, told Darren Rovell of ESPN.com. “Outside of Madden, you would be hard…

It’s high time that black Americans steer clear of any store that racially profiles, especially Barneys and Macy’s, the Rev. Al Sharpton argues at the Huffington Post.  As the recently reported incidents of profiling, interrogation and detainment of customers at Barneys and Macy’s have showcased, large entities from the private sector not only blatantly discriminate against us, they also…

Michaela Angela Davis at Jezebel joins the flock of literary giants parsing 12 Years a Slave by examining the complicated relationship that was created during slavery and still persists between black women and white women. Patsey and the Mistress Epps personify Black and White American women’s painful slave legacy. American slavery was an insidious economic institution devised…

Black women are less likely than white women to be infected by the most common strains of the human papillomavirus, and as a result, the current HPV vaccine may be ineffective for black women, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The new findings were discovered by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine and presented at the annual…

Chris Brown isn’t out of the woods yet, but the charges against him have been reduced to a simple assault misdemeanor, CNN reports. The embattled R&B singer and his bodyguard were arrested over the weekend after a scuffle outside the W Hotel in Washington, D.C. While it is unclear whether Brown initiated the altercation or was merely…

Another shopper has come forth with a shopping-while-black claim, making this the fourth such allegation this month, the New York Daily News reports.   Art Palmer, a 56-year-old physical trainer, says that four plain-clothes police stopped him after he purchased several Polo dress shirts and ties from Macy’s store using his Macy’s platinum card and American Express…