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Expectant Miss. Mother Includes Late Husband in Family Photo Shoot
Photos have the ability to hold memories of all that has transpired and to freeze our most precious moments in time. Yet with additional technical touches, they can reflect even more than that. When Nicole Bennett of Jackson, Miss., unexpectedly lost her husband, Deonta, two months before her due date, she reached out to photographer…
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Nina, Starring Zoe Saldana, Finally Has a Release Date, and Folks Are None Too Happy
After lots of hemming and hawing, fits and starts, it looks as if that Nina Simone biopic starring Zoe Saldana is coming out, and black Twitter is not having it. On Tuesday the movie poster was released, and tweets ranged from some that just said “no” repeatedly to others that consisted of virtual head shaking…
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Congressional Republicans Vote Against Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou
On Tuesday, when Congress took on the rather routine task of naming a post office after icon, writer, activist and poet Maya Angelou, nine members saw fit to vote against the mostly symbolic measure. Mind you, this is a woman who already has a postage stamp with her likeness on it. NBC News reports that…
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Symone Sanders Differs From Bernie Sanders in Almost Every Way—Except in Name and Politics
Symone D. Sanders skips states like rocks across a river. In a recent week, the 25-year-old national press secretary for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spent a day in New Hampshire, the next day in New York, and then it was off to Wisconsin and then on to South Carolina. After that it was Atlanta,…
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Steph Curry’s Shot Is All the NBA Could Talk About Last Night
Take that, Charles Barkley. You know, Sir Charles who said that the Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry “is just a great shooter, nothing more.” Well, he got one part right. Said shooting couldn’t have gotten greater than the def defying 3-point shot Curry sank from 32 feet out with seconds left in overtime last night,…
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Teen Holding Broomstick Is Shot by Police in Salt Lake City, Sparks Protests
A teenager was reportedly shot by police in Salt Lake City on Saturday, sparking hostilities from bystanders and resulting in the deployment of about 100 police officers to the downtown area, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. Witnesses say that the incident occurred around 8 p.m. near a downtown homeless shelter, and there are some social…
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3 Stabbed at Calif. KKK March
A melee broke out near the site of a planned Ku Klux Klan rally as counterprotesters laid into Klan members, resulting in three stabbings, according to Reuters. The free-for-all went down between protesters and Klan members as members of the hate group exited their vehicle to set up for a Saturday march planned in Anaheim,…
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MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry to Officially Part Ways: Report
As one may have surmised by the email heard round the (black) world Friday, MSNBC will sever ties with Melissa Harris-Perry, effectively canceling her show, according to a Washington Post report and confirmed by Richard Prince’s Journal-isms this weekend. Harris-Perry sent out the scathing email to her staff last week, and it was made public by…
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Watch: The Black Lives Matter Activist Who Interrupted Hillary Clinton Explains Why
We have all seen the video of the young black woman who was escorted from a private $500-a-plate Hillary Clinton fundraiser in South Carolina Wednesday. Ashley Williams, who stood up and confronted the leading Democratic candidate with a sign containing the words from a 1996 speech supporting the now-debunked theory of “superpredators,” stood up and…
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Google Gives $1,000,000 to Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative
Tech giant Google announced Friday that its philanthropic arm would be donating $1 million to Bryan Stevenson’s Alabama-based nonprofit, Equal Justice Initiative. The Harvard-educated Stevenson is a lawyer who has for decades fought the good fight, winning major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, confronting abuse of the…
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