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30 Percent of Black-Owned Businesses in NYC Vanished Between 2007 and 2012: Report
The Big Apple has been seeing a huge economic boom in the past 15 years or so because of its rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, with the number of new storefronts and companies bumping up by some 45 percent. However, that good fortune has not extended to everyone, with black-owned businesses seeing a significant decline over the…
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FBI Director Comey Says the Idea That He Helped Trump Win Makes Him Nauseous
James Comey, the 6-foot-8-inch Sasquatch masquerading as the director of the FBI, is on Capitol Hill all day testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing of the Justice Department. While this is usually a routine, annual hearing, on Wednesday, Comey spent much of his time defending himself against Hillary Clinton’s statements Tuesday that she…
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Ind. Teen to Graduate From College Before Receiving High School Diploma
Indiana’s Miss Raven Osborne is not your average 18-year-old. The astute high schooler is scheduled to graduate with the rest of her classmates on May 22. But before hitting that milestone, she will first graduate from college on May 5, which is Friday. That’s right: Osborne is graduating from college before high school. “Yeah, they…
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Critics Score Dear White People 100 Percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Actual White People? Not So Much
Despite the torrential flood of white tears that has rained down since Netflix announced the recently released original series Dear White People, film and television critics have given the show a 100 percent score on the review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Created by Justin Simien, who wrote and directed the feature film of the same name,…
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Baltimore Orioles’ Adam Jones Receives Huge Standing Ovation 1 Day After Being Called the N-Word at Fenway Park
One day after being subjected to racial taunts—being called the n-word and having peanuts thrown at him—Baltimore Orioles star Adam Jones received a huge standing ovation. The gesture Tuesday at Boston’s Fenway Park, though sweet, does nothing to address the virulent racism that Jones—one of baseball’s most respected players—faced when he stepped out on the…
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NY College Mistakes Black Student Carrying a Glue Gun for an ‘Active Shooter’
Colgate University, an upstate New York college, went into a lockdown Monday night after reports of an “active shooter” on campus. That “active shooter” turned out to be a black student who was carrying a glue gun for an art project. Well, that’s not suspicious at all. At any rate, the New York Daily News…
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April Ryan Named 2017 NABJ Journalist of the Year
It’s been an interesting year to be veteran White House reporter April Ryan. Between back-and-forths with President Donald Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, and her generally excellent work, Ryan’s name has been in the spotlight pretty much since this administration made itself comfy in the White House. And now, in what is sure…
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Black Lawmakers to Boycott Regional Conference Over Miss. State Flag
The Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus announced earlier this week that it will take a pass on the Southern Legislative Conference, which will be held in Biloxi this summer, in protest against the Confederate battle emblem that is still emblazoned on the state flag. As the Associated Press notes, all eight of Mississippi’s public universities, and…
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Black Cultural Center Opening at UW-Madison 1 Year After Racist Incidents, Protests
A year after a rash of racist incidents and student protests spread across its campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is opening a center for black students Wednesday in an effort to show better support for the black community on campus. The Black Cultural Center will be located inside UW-Madison’s Red Gym, which is already home…