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Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Welcome to another installment of “Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes!” I’m your host as always, and today’s contestant is the leader of a neo-Nazi group who pleaded guilty to harassing journalists and advocates of color. What’s his prize, you ask? Potential jail time! According …
Read More »Polaroid Portraits
Photographs by Dawoud Bey Image above left: Two Men at Cambridge Place and Fulton Street, Brooklyn, 1988; Above right: Woman Wearing Denim, Rochester, 1989 This article was published online on April 9, 2021. “Can I make a picture with you?” The photographer Dawoud Bey posed this question to passersby in …
Read More »DMX’s Brain Activity Test Results Have Been Released
Brain activity tests administered on DMX have reportedly revealed that he has yet to regain brain function. According to TMZ, on Wednesday (April 7), the 50-year-old rapper underwent a series of tests showing a lack of improvement in brain activity since he was first rushed to the hospital on April …
Read More »‘That Is Not a Fentanyl Overdose. That Is Somebody Begging to Breathe’: Medical Experts Express Doubt That Drugs Played a Role in George Floyd’s Death During Day 9 of Chauvin Trial
Dr. Martin Tobin testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Thursday, April 8, 2021Image: Court TV-Pool (AP) So far, the testimony heard this week has largely been from police officials and use-of-force experts, with a focus on whether former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin followed police training during the …
Read More »The Man Who Waited 50 Years for This Moment
“It’s a long game,” Wertheimer told me recently. “You have to be in this for the long game in order to make progress, because you have to be there at a moment when the opportunity exists to strike and the proposed solutions are on the table.” A lawyer by profession, …
Read More »SMU Assistant Football Coach Jamal Powell Dies
On Tuesday (April 6), Southern Methodist University assistant football coach, Jamal Powell, died. He was 39. Powell was just days away from his 40th birthday on April 10. “We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Jamal Powell,” the university’s football team tweeted on Wednesday. “Our hearts and …
Read More »United Airlines Announces Diversity Push. Tucker Carlson Says It Will 'Get People Killed' Because Apparently, Only White Men Can Fly Planes
Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) This week, United Airlines’ flight school, United Aviate Academy, announced that it is now accepting applications and that it plans to train 5,000 new pilots over the next decade and that 50 percent of those pilots will be women and people of color. For reasonable …
Read More »Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car
Hulton Archive / Getty here in this carload i am eve with abel my son if you see my other son cain son of man tell him that i The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis, by Dan Pagis, translated by Stephen Mitchell. © 1989 Stephen Mitchell, as …
Read More »2021 NAACP Image Awards: See Nicco Annan's Suit!
Nicco Annan displayed a high level of sophistication at the 2021 NAACP Image Awards. Keep scrolling to learn more about the P-Valley actor’s custom suit! Dressed in a custom Kamsi-Tcharles suit, the Best Actor nominee looked dapper as he snapped a few photos for the award show. After a bit of research, we learned that the one-of-a-kind …
Read More »Woman Executive Named First Black CEO of PR Giant Edelman U.S.
For the first time in its 69-year history, public relations giant Edelman has named an African American to run its business across this country. The global firm says Lisa Osborne Ross will become CEO of its U.S. operations effective May 3. It declared she will be the first Black woman …
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