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“Super Genius” Audra ShayFound this originally on Aunt Jemima’s Revenge and was forwarded the story from The Daily Beast by an enraged reader. Seems another racist has learned that the internet is not their friend. (You know? If they don’t want people to know they’re a racist.) Case in point: Vice Chairman of the Young…
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By Ariana It was the beginning of the 1990’s in a small school in southern England, in a town that was once famed for making furniture, but now chain stores undercut the prices of local artisans. It was a place in decline. It was a town that had (maybe grudgingly at first) accepted West Indian…
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The first person to die during the Boston Massacre was a black man, Crispus Attucks. I honesly don’t know why homie was there. Was he throwing a block of wood or relaxing, leaning on a stick? Either way. He was the first to take two to the chest and go down for the emancipation of…
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By Vernon C. Mitchell, Jr. In the coming weeks, months, and years, there will be much speculation into just who Michael Jackson was. Already, media outlets scramble for any iota of information they can to report on his death and the subsequent legal battles over his children and estate. In this moment however, more attention…
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Robin GivhanIn a recent column for the Washington Post’s Media Notes, Howard Kurtz describes the many black female reporters who cover the First Lady and wonders how their ethnicity affects their coverage. He specifically talks about Rachel Swarns of the New York Times, the Post’s Robin Givhan, Newsweek’s Allison Samuels, Darlene Superville of the Associated…
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From The Hilltop towards the end of the story: “Compared to the video we saw, it didn’t stimulate the conversation,” said recently crowned Miss D.C., Shirley Rivens Smith, a ANC Commissioner for Ward 5. “It was mediocre. I would give it a D,” said Bey Bright, a D.C. resident. In defense of the piece, CNN’s
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You go to a school where there’s no music, the gym is falling apart, the books are old, the building is near dilapidated, the neighborhood is iffy, the crime rate is high and the drop out rate is higher. If only you went to one of those sparkling, integrated suburban schools. Then you would have…
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