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Kanye Wears Confederate Flag into Barneys
As if rocking the confederate flag wasn’t enough, Kanye West was photographed coming out of Barneys, which has been steeped in controversy after several claims of targeting black shoppers as criminals, aka “shopping while black.” According to Us magazine, which posted the photo of the egomaniacal rapper on their website, West apparently lambasted Barneys at…
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Man Found Guilty of Murdering Sean Taylor
A 23-year-old man was convicted of armed burglary and second-degree murder in the 2007 shooting death of the Washington Redskins’ Sean Taylor, ESPN.com reports. Eric Rivera Jr., who could face life in prison, confessed to shooting Taylor shortly after he was arrested, but once on the stand he changed his story, claiming that his confession…
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'Keisha' Ditches Black Name, Becomes 'Kylie'
After enduring taunts and insults about her name, a 19-year-old biracial teen decided she’d had enough. Keisha Austin will now be forever known as Kylie Austin, the Kansas City Star reports. Gone is the birth name given to her by her white mother because she believed it represented a strong, feminine, beautiful black woman. “I…
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Toyota Donates Hybrid Vehicles to HBCUs
Hybrid vehicles, even with their amazing gas-to-mileage ratio, don’t resonate with people of color. So Toyota announced plans to donate 22 Prius hybrid vehicles to select HBCUs across the Southwestern Atlantic, NewsOne reports. School administrators will be granted one-year leases on the 50-mile-per-gallon vehicles as a part of the Toyota Green Initiative (TGI) program that…
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Obama Assures Public New Health Care Plans Are Best
As no clear resolution to the fiasco that is Healthcare.gov is in sight, President Obama is in full swing to restore the nation’s trust in his vision for universal health care, the Huffington Post reports. Millions of Americans who had individual plans have been receiving cancellation notices. Obama assured a gathering of about 200 campaign supporters and…
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DC Council to Vote on Redskins Name Change
The 13-member D.C. Council will vote today on a resolution calling for the Washington Redskins to change the team name as, “the right and prudent thing to do,” the Washington Post reports. While the ruling would have no legal weight in forcing team owner Daniel Synder to change the team name, it does send another…
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NFL Player Bullies Biracial Teammate
Last week, NFL rookie Johnathan Martin left the Miami Dolphins amid allegations that he was being bullied by teammates. Shortly after, NFL talking heads hit the televisions screens to initiate the uninformed into the culture of football locker-room antics. On the NFL Network, former Dallas Cowboys star wideout Michael Irvin talked about his heydays in…
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Dancing for Action Has Flash Mob at Barclays Center
Dancing for Action, an interpretive protest dance troupe, held a flash mob outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., to rally against “Stand your ground” and the illegality of stop-and-frisk laws, Newsone reports. The troupe chose Saturday evening outside the arena as the Brooklyn Nets were playing the Miami Heat for one reason: The Heat…
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Usain Bolt Talks McNuggets in Memoir
When you are the fastest man on the planet, you can eat whatever you want — even boatloads of McDonald’s chicken nuggets. Usain Bolt revealed in a newly published memoir that during his two-week stay in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics, he consumed roughly 1,000 chicken nuggets, according to excerpts published by the New York…
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Obama Was Told Health Care Website Was Working
Turns out that President Obama was just as shocked as the rest of America that the Healthcare.gov website wasn’t working. He was told that the site would be fully functional — even as private contractors and some administration knew the site had failed early testing, a senior White House advisor said Sunday. The Los Angeles…
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