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Category "Features"
Voting while black: Lessons from Hillary
In what is probably the biggest non-surprise in electoral politics this year, former Secretary of State Hillary [...]
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Common cannot love away racism
You know who I really feel sorry for right now? Common. Now on paper, there’s really no need for [...]
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Green gets his walking papers at SRC
“Just wanted to give you a heads-up. Tom Wolf is replacing Bill Green as chair of the [...]
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Faux outrage on Zendaya locs
Pardon me for being frank, but it doesn't seem to take much to set the natural hair [...]
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Kanye, Kim, Kylie, and Amber = drama
After watching the video of Kanye West’s recent interview on Power 105.1’s “Breakfast Club” morning show, something [...]
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Who loves America – Obama or Giuliani?
Rudy Giuliani says President Barack Obama does not love America. That’s right, the former New York mayor and [...]
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School financing 101: Where are we now?
There are a lot of things that you probably know about me thanks to the bio that’s [...]
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Whose story is Selma?
Those of you who have followed Denzel Washington’s career since its inception know that he won his [...]
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We have the right to protest police actions
When I used to teach journalism at Temple University, one of the things that I’d hand my [...]
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NYPD cop killer does not represent us
On either side of the thin blue line that separates police from civilian, we all have the [...]
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Beverly Johnson changes things on Cosby
Beverly Johnson is a game changer. Before Johnson hit the cover of American Vogue in 1974, black women [...]
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