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Drake sat down with the Village Voice recently where he talked about his biracial background and the difference between how race is perceived in Canada and the U.S.
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(CAMBRIDGE-Scientific Computing)
Years after slavery and Jim Crow laws, people of African and European heritage still consider themselves to be Black, according to a recent study.
The centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.
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Fantasia has been in the news over the last couple of months due to her relationship with her married boyfriend Antwuan Cook. By now you’ve heard about the lawsuit, the suicide attempt and the two of them moving in together. We don’t really know why a woman would get involved with a married man, but Fantasia has to know this will not end well. Rather than shy away from the media, Fantasia has stepped forward to discuss the affair.
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Despite the large amount of money pledged for Haiti — over 50 percent of Americans donated to the relief effort — the efficiency of the effort has been weakened by structural problems, bureaucratic inactivity, the scope of the disaster, and other interests trying to keep their privileges while giving the appearance of change.
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From Washingtonpost.com:
After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there’s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.
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From HuffPost.com:
Four students have sued Savannah State University on the grounds that they were denied promised athletic scholarships because of they are white.
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From the AFP:
WASHINGTON — Scientists have found the reason why blacks dominate on the running track and whites in the swimming pool: it’s in their belly-buttons, a study published Monday shows.
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KeKe Wyatt recently sat down with HelloBeautiful to discuss her album and to clear the air regarding an interview she did with Essence magazine.
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(From huffingtonpost.com)
Amanda Bynes has a new boyfriend who knows how to love her body right and she’d like us to know this has something to do with him being black.
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On MLK Day, MSNBC had a discussion on race and host Elon James White did not want to miss it.
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Washington Watch’s Roland Martin spoke to a panel about what dialogues about race have been looking like since the election of Barack Obama.
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According to NewsOne/Blackplanet polls, most Black people say the word “Negro” itself doesn’t offend them — that is, unless it’s being uttered by a white person.
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