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by Jay Connor on (#5QVDG)
On Sunday, with the Chicago Sky trailing by nine points in the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the WNBA Finals, did anybody really think Candace Parker would fall short in her quest to bring her hometown its first-ever WNBA championship against the Phoenix Mercury?Read more...
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by Maiysha Kai on (#5QVBE)
Dorothy Steel demonstrated that it’s never too late to follow a dream. Born in 1926, she was 88 years old when she landed her first acting role, launching a career that would soon lead to her feature film debut as an elder of the Merchant Tribe in 2018's Black Panther.Read more...
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by Stephen A. Crockett Jr. on (#5QV9A)
Ahmaud Arbery committed the crime of jogging in a neighborhood where three white men decided he didn’t belong. The three men reportedly chased him down and killed him. Now those men, who decided Arbery’s fate on Feb. 23, 2020, are set to face trial.
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by Jay Connor on (#5QV6F)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s get to this football.
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by Shanelle Genai on (#5QV4C)
It looks like Bow Wow, real name Boward Woward Shad Moss, is ready to get the Millennium Tour “outta his system.”Read more...
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by Michael Harriot on (#5QV2C)
Colin Powell, the retired four-star general who was the first African American to serve as Secretary of State, died from COVID-related complications on Monday. He was 84 years old.
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by J.L. Cook on (#5QTE4)
A sheriff’s deputy in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana was caught on video as he held a Black woman by her hair and slammed her to the ground multiple times.
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by J.L. Cook on (#5QTD1)
In a first-of-its-kind move for a major U.S. city, Philadelphia has banned its police force from pulling over motorists for minor offenses, including broken taillights or improperly displayed registration.
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by J.L. Cook on (#5QT9W)
Suni Reid, a Black transgender cast member of the touring production of “Hamilton,” has filed a discrimination suit against the show’s producers with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles.
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by J.L. Cook on (#5QSK8)
Well, this isn’t funny: Nashville-based comedian Joshua Black said a woman falsely accused him of breaking into cars at the apartment complex they both live at. She said he fit the description of the suspect. It turns out that he didn’t.
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by J.L. Cook on (#5QSHP)
A Louisiana state trooper who has publicly criticized his department for the violent arrest and death of Ronald Greene is at risk of losing his job. He says that his potential termination is an act of retaliation by the state police.
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by J.L. Cook on (#5QSCE)
Days before a planned walkout of trans employees and allies at Netflix in protest of Dave Chappelle’s latest “comedy” special The Closer, the streaming giant confirmed that it has fired one of the staffers leading the charge.
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by Stephen A. Crockett Jr. on (#5QRXS)
Former president of America and current president of white people who dress in bedsheets claimed his followers can’t be counted on in future elections until the Republican Party addresses his baseless and senseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
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by Shanelle Genai on (#5QRXT)
Hold onto your raspberry berets and get ready to clutch your imaginary purple pearls!Read more...
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by Jay Connor on (#5QRVX)
After their contentious split from The Joe Budden Podcast in May, many assumed co-hosts Rory Farrell and Jamil “Mal” Clay would either dissolve into thin air or return to whatever nebulous outside endeavors occupied their time. But because God is great all the time—except for when he took an extended vacation during…Read more...
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by Shanelle Genai on (#5QRTR)
Former Cosby Show actress and artist Lili Bernard filed a suit on Thursday against Bill Cosby, citing a 1990 hotel incident in which she claims Cosby drugged and raped her in Atlantic City, N.J., when she was 26 years old.Read more...
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by Michael Harriot on (#5QRTS)
Because there wasn’t much controversy in the news this week, I assumed this week’s Mailbag would be light on content. So instead of discussing the emails, DMs and tweets from aggrieved white people, I wanted to focus on something entirely different:Read more...
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by Stephen A. Crockett Jr. on (#5QRS4)
On Friday, the day that Chicago employees must report their coronavirus vaccination status, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the union representing Chicago police officers are still at odds.
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by Panama Jackson on (#5QRS5)
Today, October 15, is the birthday of one Toriano Adaryll Jackson. If you are Black, or have spent any amount of time around Black people or are not Black but maybe came into adulthood in the 70s and 80s, then you know Toriano by his more common moniker, Tito. Yes, October 15th is Tito Jackson’s birthday. We should…Read more...
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by Jay Connor on (#5QRQ6)
In Shona, a Bantu language spoken by a large percentage of the Zimbabwe population, the name Takunda means “we have overcome, conquered.” And true to that definition, 19-year-old Takunda Rusike is creating a lane for Black women to play a sport that historically has catered to the opposite end of the color spectrum.
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by Stephen A. Crockett Jr. on (#5QRND)
There are times when hearing the other side can be helpful, and then there are times when no one gives a shit about the other side.
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by Okla Jones on (#5QRJX)
Four security guards were charged with involuntary manslaughter nearly eight years after the death of a Black man who was pinned to the floor at Northland Center Mall in Southfield, Mich., Attorney General Dana Nessel said on Wednesday.
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by By Rev. Dr. Shakeema North as told to Candice Benb on (#5QRJW)
In this multipart series, HBCU alums share their favorite moments from their alma mater as a testament to what these institutions have meant to them.Read more...
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by Shanelle Genai on (#5QRFT)
Real Hot Chicken Shit!Read more...
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by Jay Connor on (#5QRDB)
Above all else, Kevin Durant wants to win.Read more...
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by Michael Harriot on (#5QRAW)
Hidden in the stories surrounding the racist and homophobic emails between now former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden was an interesting tidbit about ESPN Insider Adam Schefter’s communication with Gruden and Bruce Allen, the then-president of the Washington Football Team.Read more...
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by Jay Connor on (#5QQSW)
Looking to follow in his father’s NBA footsteps, Zaire Wade, son of three-time NBA champion Dwayne Wade, is taking his talents to the pros.
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by Rachel Pilgrim on (#5QQRF)
Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer on Oct. 4, 1951, but her legacy and tumor cells still live on 70 years later.Read more...
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by Okla Jones on (#5QQPJ)
A former Louisiana State Police trooper facing a federal charge in the 2019 beating of a Black motorist with a flashlight—which was captured on police body cameras—pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
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by Okla Jones on (#5QQPM)
A Black cement mason and father of five in California is recovering after being shot seven times in what police say may be a possible hate crime.
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by Jay Connor on (#5QQPK)
When the National Women’s Soccer League finally returned to play last summer in the aftermath of the officer-related murder of George Floyd, dozens of players used the league’s Challenge Cup tournament as a platform to express their frustrations with the racial climate in this country. By kneeling in protest during…Read more...
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by Rachel Pilgrim on (#5QQPN)
Timuel Black, an educator, political adviser, historian and activist has died at age 102, taking with him a wealth of wisdom and leaving behind a legacy of change.Read more...
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by Shanelle Genai on (#5QQMY)
The Rolling Stones are temporarily removing one of their most popular songs from their current tour setlist.Read more...
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by Rachel Pilgrim on (#5QQMZ)
Baltimore County has agreed to pay yet another settlement in case of unwarranted police brutality. The county will be paying $6.5 million to Eric Sopp’s family, according to the their attorneys on Tuesday. Sopp was shot and killed by Baltimore County Police Officer Gregory Page in 2019 while he was experiencing a…Read more...
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by Shanelle Genai on (#5QQJZ)
Meek Mill’s fifth studio album, Expensive Pain, is available to stream everywhere now.Read more...
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by Tiffani DuPree on (#5QQK0)
Black in the Day is an ongoing series about Black nostalgia that covers very specific topics. This week it’s all about hairstyles and the products that shaped our manes from the ’80s to the early 2000s.Read more...
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by Terrell Jermaine Starr on (#5QQHE)
The family of Christina Nance, whose body was found last week in an unused police van in a Huntsville, Ala., police parking lot, say they aren’t accepting a recent autopsy report that said there was no foul play in her death. They plan to have a private autopsy performed on her, according to Fox 54.Read more...
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by Maiysha Kai on (#5QQHF)
For most of us, it didn’t take an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to know we were living in a deeply divided America—one-half of which had been literally rallied into a frenzy by Donald J. Trump. For political commentator and New York Times bestselling author Keith Boykin, a veteran of the Clinton administration who…Read more...
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by Shanelle Genai on (#5QQFN)
On Tuesday, The Root reported that a trans employee and a handful of others who were suspended after trying to attend a director-level meeting that they weren’t invited to. The trans employee in particular, Terra Field, had previously spoken out against Netflix’s decision to house Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy…Read more...
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by Stephen A. Crockett Jr. on (#5QQFP)
I don’t know what kind of tour this is that Katie Couric is on, but she might want to look at drinking a tall glass of STFU.
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by Jay Connor on (#5QQB7)
Oh, boy.Read more...
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by Okla Jones on (#5QQ8N)
Howard University students are protesting on campus over poor housing conditions, student safety and a lack of representation on the school’s board of trustees.
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by Terrell Jermaine Starr on (#5QQ6F)
A study from the University of Virginia published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week found that counties in ex-Confederate states with more Confederate memorials had more lynchings.Read more...
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by Terrell Jermaine Starr on (#5QQ3V)
Black people may have been undercounted in the 2020 census at a significantly higher rate than usual, according to two new analyses, reports the Washington Post. Undercounting is significant because it could affect representation in Washington, D.C., and funding in Black communities over the next 10 years.Read more...
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by Okla Jones on (#5QPG1)
UnitedMasters launched a new strategic partnership with the cryptocurrency platform Coinbase. The deal gives independent artists the option to be paid through Coinbase’s payroll product.
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by Okla Jones on (#5QPEQ)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo born-artist Sandra Mujinga won this year’s Preis der Nationalgalerie in Germany. Her work consists of photography, video, and sculptures that represent her definition of Blackness.
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by Shanelle Genai on (#5QPDS)
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation is continuing to make moves when it comes to criminal justice reform in Kansas City.Read more...
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by Rachel Pilgrim on (#5QPC4)
A new 11-foot statue honoring civil rights giant Mary McLeod Bethune—made using marble from the same quarry Michelangelo used to build the infamous David sculpture—was unveiled Tuesday in Florida. Artist Nilda Comas spent four years chiseling away at the marble in her Italian studio, before the statue made its way to…Read more...
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by Rachel Pilgrim on (#5QPAZ)
If you are keeping up with the latest in the culture wars, then you know that schools across the country are caught in the middle. However, the only casualties have been the students sitting in the classrooms. Black Georgia high school students planned a protest against racism in their school but got suspended for…Read more...
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by Okla Jones on (#5QPB0)
For the first time in 50 years, three brothers finally came together at Fort Knox, Ky., this weekend.
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