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President Obama Pens 55-Page Article on Criminal Justice for Harvard Law Review
President Barack Obama returned to his Harvard Law Review roots (he was the first black president of the 100-plus-year-old journal in his last year at the school) as he penned a 55-page-article on our justice system, how his administration has moved the needle and how far we have to go to make substantive change. Entitled…
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Ding-Dongs in a Ring: Chris Brown and Soulja Boy Agree to Pay-per-View Fight
Embattled singer Chris Brown and former Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood character Soulja Boy are taking their online beef into the ring. Soulja Boy revealed on Instagram this week that boxer Floyd Mayweather is training him for the fight, and 50 Cent followed that up with a post confirming that Mike Tyson will be training Brown,…
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Ala.’s Black Belt Hit Hard by Voter-Suppression Measures
Voter suppression is alive and well, and a case in Alabama’s Black Belt proves it. When the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency announced the closure of 31 driver’s license offices in 2015, a journalist in the state showed that the state’s “Black Belt”— the region of Alabama that takes its name first from the color of its…
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Colin Kaepernick Donates Huge Sneaker Collection to Bay Area Orphanages, Shelters
San Francisco backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has stood for the sanctity of black lives by kneeling during the national anthem, is giving away at least a portion of his colossal footwear collection to Bay Area homeless shelters and orphanages, according to a video posted on Instagram by his girlfriend, DJ Nessa. Kaepernick, who is…
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Sam’s Club’s 1st Black CEO, Rosalind Brewer, Steps Down
Rosalind Brewer, the first woman and the first African American to head Sam’s Club, stepped down from her position Friday, reports Fortune. After five years at the helm of Sam’s Club, Brewer will be replaced by John Furner, Sam’s Club’s chief merchant. Although Brewer said she is leaving the $57 billion-a-year company because “she wants…
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Arthur Ashe Biopic in the Works
A writer and several producers have teamed up to bring tennis legend and philanthropist Arthur Ashe’s incredible story to the big screen. Krystin Ver Linden and producers Russell Hollander, John Schoenfelder and Russell Ackerman announced their collaboration this week, and Deadline reports that the proposed biopic “follows not only the sporting story of the tennis icon…
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Solange Joins Angela Davis, Alice Walker for ‘Peace Ball’ During Trump Inauguration Week
Solange is slated to perform at Busboys and Poets’ Peace Ball, an “alternative celebration“ to Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities in Washington, D.C. The 2017 Peace Ball: Voices of Hope and Resistance will take place Jan. 19 at the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture. It’s organized by Busboys and Poets, a…
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Dylann Roof Wears Racist Symbols on Shoes in Court
Dylann Roof, who was convicted in December of killing nine black parishioners in Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, has been wearing shoes adorned with racist symbols to court as recently as Monday, the Daily Beast reports. Roof, who is representing himself in the murder trial and who testified that he has…
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Mexico’s Former President to Trump: ‘I’m Not Paying for That F–king Wall’
Businessman Vicente Fox Quesada, former president of Mexico, took to Twitter to tell President-elect Donald Trump to f—k his couch and his wall. Trump spent the last year and a half saying that he was going to build a wall—a yuge wall—and Mexico was going to pay for it. Well, there’s a little caveat. Now…
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Check Out Black Brilliance 360, a Web Series Delivering Real Talk by and for Black Men
Negative images of black men are easy enough to find in American culture, the kinds of images that label them as “thugs” or criminals. But a new web series called black brilliance 360, which launched this week, is out to flip the narrative on who black men are and what they’re really about. Produced by…
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