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America mourns the loss of John Robert Lewis. The civil rights icon, who passed on July 17 at the age of 80, is receiving a fitting, weeklong farewell. On Saturday, the tributes began at his birthplace of Troy, Alabama, a hamlet outside of Montgomery where his civil rights activism took …

Photo: Penty Photography (Shutterstock) There’s something about Facebook that just makes white people go, “I’m gonna end my whole career today.” In one of the most inventive instances of playing oneself, a Florida man was arrested after posting, among other things, a racist Cards Against Humanity play. According to Insider, …

The Atlantic has hired Clint Smith as a staff writer, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced today. Smith, who received his Ph.D. in education from Harvard University this spring, has contributed to The Atlantic over the past several years––in June, he wrote on becoming a parent in the age of …

The body of late Congressman John Lewis was taken across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. on Sunday (July 26), more than five decades after he and other civil rights activists marched for voting rights across the bridge but were met with violence from state and local police. After …

Share0 (Image: Facebook) More Than A Vote and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition have announced a collaboration that intends to assist in securing voting rights for former felons living in the state of Florida, according to a press release. Los Angeles Lakers’ player LeBron James announced last month that he …

Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images) On July 25, 2005, William Ray Norwood, Jr. better known to the world as Ray J, released his classic single, “One Wish.” Whether you agree or not with this next statement doesn’t matter, for its truth is indisputable: “One Wish” is one of the greatest …

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A few decades ago, “American beer” had the same connotation in the world of brewing as Velveeta-style “American cheese” had for connoisseurs of Stilton or Brie. Mid-20th-century American beer culture was known for its handful of giant breweries, and for the unadventurous, bland lagers they pumped out. In those days, …

It’s official. Meek Mill and Milan “Milano” Harris have broken up. The rapper made the announcement Sunday (July 26) on Twitter, adding that they will still be friends and plan to co-parent their two-month-old son. “We me and Milano decided to remain friends and build our child as separate parents …

For millions of young Black Americans, the cellphone video of George Floyd, prone on a Minneapolis street and begging for his life as a white police officer snuffs his last breath, will forever be seared into memory. This barbaric act has become, in our social media-saturated world, a symbol as …