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According to Lil Wayne, his recent health scare was overblown, because he’s had a number of seizures in the past, reports the Daily News.  “This wasn’t my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh … I have had a bunch of seizures, you just never hear about them,” he reveals on his medical condition in…

Nelson Mandela is doing better, according to South African President Jacob Zuma, reports BBC News. Mandela, 94, re-entered a hospital for the third time in four months earlier this week for a lung infection. It said Mr Mandela had developed a pleural effusion – excess fluid in the lungs which had been drained to enable…

Christiana Mbakwe, writing at xoJane, says that the idea of being “colorblind” is fundamentally problematic and does more harm than good. In an interview with BET, Kim Kardashian said, “I have a lot of friends that are all different nationalities, and their children are bi-racial. So they have kind of talked to me a little…

Colorlines‘ Brentin Mock presents his own research to challenge the claim by The Root’s Keli Goff that voting-rights and affirmative action coverage suffered because of journalists’ focus on marriage equality.  … Keli Goff, a columnist for The Root, argued that voting rights and affirmative action was suffering a “media shutout” at the expense of marriage…

While the nation is fully engulfed in March Madness, Damon Young writes in a piece for Ebony that he’s been reminded of why college hoops could never replace pro basketball. Like millions of other sports fans, I spent countless hours following and/or watching the first couple rounds of the NCAA tournament last weekend. And, like much of…

CBS sports analyst Doug Gottlieb made a poor attempt at lightening up the mood among his fellow analysts Thursday night before kicking off coverage of the NCAA’s Sweet 16. Gottlieb, the lone white guy, was flanked by Greg Gumbel, Greg Anthony, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley when he said, “I don’t know why you guys…