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  • #MovingInWhileBlack: Former White House Staffer Accused of Breaking Into His Own Apartment

    Here’s an updated list of reasons why the cops have been called on black people: #BreathingWhileBlack, #WalkingWhileBlack, #HoldingACellPhoneWhileBlack, #EatingAtTheWaffleHouseWhileBlack, #SittingAtStarbucksWhileBlack … and now you can add #MovingInWhileBlack. And that’s just what happened to former White House staffer Darren Martin as he was moving into his Upper West Side apartment in New York City. Martin, a…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Women of Color Within Time’s Up Join #MuteRKelly Protest

    To Our Fellow Women of Color: We see you. We hear you. Because we are you. For too long, our community has ignored our pain. The pain we bear is a burden that too many women of color have had to bear for centuries. The wounds run deep. As women of color within Time’s Up,…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Police Caught on Camera Physically Assaulting Former NFL Player Desmond Marrow

    A video from December has surfaced showing former NFL player Desmond Marrow being assaulted by Henry County police officers in McDonough, Ga., after an alleged road rage incident. According to court documents from the lawyer for the Atlanta chapter of Black Lives Matter, which is representing Marrow, the former athlete says a white man threw…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • How the West Was Lost

    Five years ago I wrote to a friend about Kanye West’s well-reviewed but (in my opinion) emperor-has-no-clothes, comically awful album Yeezus: “I’m not sure what Kanye even does musically anymore except be Kanye, similar to Donald Trump’s name being used by foreign firms being used to market products because it’s recognizable,” I noted. Those shocked…

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  • Winston Duke Says Black Women Have Been His No. 1 Fans

    Ever since the release of our favorite groundbreaking monster hit Black Panther, Tobagonian Winston Duke has accumulated a great following of fans for his portrayal of Jabari renegade M’Baku. He reprises his role as the Wakandan warrior in Avengers: Infinity War this week, so it is to be expected that the internet will have something…

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  • Here’s What Happened After I Left a 3-Star Yelp Review for a Pizza Parlor

    Updated Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 1:55 p.m. EDT: Yelp issued a statement via Twitter and an email about the incident: We’re sorry to hear about your experience following your review of La Porchetta this past weekend and want to ensure that you know we take these types of issues very seriously. We have elevated the…

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  • Don Cheadle Talks Social Media and How He Deals With Trolls

    For many years, Don Cheadle has received massive praise for both his dramatic acting chops in works like Hotel Rwanda, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for best actor, and his comedic ability in the series House of Lies, for which he received a Golden Globe. Not only is he a beast…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • From Stand-Up to Broadway: Rick Younger Is the New ‘Mr. Duvall’ in Broadway’s Mean Girls

    You’ve probably seen Rick Younger’s face in countless commercials and TV shows. Last year, as I was watching the series finale of HBO’s Girls, I caught him as one of the few black people who made an appearance on the show. Younger was the police officer with Lena Dunham’s character in the last scene, and…

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  • University of North Texas Dining Hall Employee Fired After Labeling Student’s Receipt With N-Word

    A University of North Texas dining hall employee will now be standing in the unemployment line after labeling a black student’s receipt with the n-word. Chelsea Shaw posted the receipt she received from the campus’s Krispy Krunchy Chicken to Twitter: According to Bill McNeace, executive director of Retail Dining Services, the student-employee, a cook, was…

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  • White Male Security Guard Brutally Assaults 16-Year-Old Black Girl Allegedly Shoplifting at Ohio Kroger

    While shoppers were minding their business Saturday night at a Toledo, Ohio, Kroger store, they witnessed a 16-year-old girl being assaulted by a security guard after the guard allegedly caught her shoplifting. As the incident is being filmed by a shopper’s cellphone, you can hear other shoppers yell at 32-year-old Tom Clingo as he drags…

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