culture
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My Man Wants Me to Drop My Male Bestie
(The Root) — “My best friend is a guy I have known for almost seven years. We’re former co-workers, and he now lives in a nearby state with his girlfriend. We’re both busy with work and our relationships and don’t speak very often, maybe once every other week. Mostly we text and send emails sporadically…
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Suspect Michael Adebolajo Held in Kenya in 2010 Amid Terror Training
UPDATED Sunday, May 26, 1:05 p.m. EDT: BBC News reports that though Kenya originally denied it, the Foreign Office has confirmed that suspect Michael Adebolajo was arrested in Kenya in 2010. Adebolajo was believed to be training to fight with the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab, which is connected to al-Qaeda, but was deported when authorities discovered he was British. Elsewhere on…
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Stop and Frisk and … Give Us Your Weed?
Stop and frisk continues to be controversial, and the New York Civil Liberties Union made another allegation on Wednesday. NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman charged that in addition toharassing too many minorities, police also rack up a sizable number of marijuana arrests through stop and frisk that probably wouldn’t happen otherwise, according to the Daily…
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Oklahoma Mom Delivers Baby Boy During Tornado
Giving birth is tough enough, but delivering a child during a tornado is an amazing feat. And that’s just what Shay-la Taylor did to bring son Braeden Immanuel into the world, reports the Huffington Post. At 3:30 p.m., the tornado touched down, flattening the building. Only 25 other patients and staff were left in the…
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Tiger Woods Accepts Garcia's Apology, but Will Sponsors?
When Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia joked that he’d serve Tiger Woods “fried chicken” for dinner earlier this week, he probably didn’t realize that the quip could cost him his TaylorMade sponsorship, reports the Daily Mail. The Spaniard’s … abject apology for a remark that carries racist overtones — fried chicken is stereotypically a food associated with…
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On Listening to 'New Slaves' With White People
Writing at Noisey, Ernest Baker explains why, although he thinks Kanye West’s new single is “27 times better if you’re black,” he hopes that white listeners will attempt to understand its message. … It’s not that white people can’t enjoy “New Slaves,” or that they’re all so dense as to not be able to grasp…
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'Scandal' Withdrawal: It's a Real Thing
(The Root) — Thursday nights will never be the same (at least until September). After last week’s head-exploding closing line — “Dad?!” — fans of ABC’s cultural phenomenon Scandal have been left with a gaping hole in their social calendars. What to tweet about? What to actually talk about? What’s a gladiator to do without…
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GOP Candidate: Three-Fifths Clause Was 'Anti-Slavery'
Virginia’s Republican nominee for lieutenant governor is either very confused about the constitutional clause that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation purposes, or else very creative (read: wrong) in his interpretation of it. Talking Points Memo is reporting on Wednesday on a statement that E.W. Jackson made, disagreeing with a…
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Chief Keef Arrested Again
Chicago rapper Chief Keef was arrested near Atlanta this week just two months after he was released from custody in Chicago for a probation violation, the Chicago Tribune reports. The controversial 17-year-old artist (real name: Keith Farrelle Cozart) was charged with one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct for smoking marijuana in a hotel room. Chief Keef, 17,…