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‘Cotton Picker. Monkey.’: Black Michigan Students As Young as 11 Were Repeated Victims of Racism As School District and Administrators ‘Turned A Blind Eye,’ Lawsuit Alleges

July 12, 2024
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The parents of five Black students filed a federal lawsuit against the Livingston County school district alleging officials ignored over a decade of racism and harassment aimed at their children despite having knowledge of a litany of hostile incidents. Filed by civil rights firm Marko Law in the Eastern District of Michigan on Monday, July…

Sankofa Village For The Arts: An Intergenerational Community Sanctuary In Pittsburgh Carries On Tradition

July 12, 2024
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Source: iOne Digital Creative Services On a recent Saturday in May, a daylong African drum and dance gathering in Pittsburgh had 10-year-old Peyton Russell feeling the pulse. After catching the rhythm, he glided over to a nearby djembe drum and started banging. The elder standing next to him guided his hands, helping the young boy…

‘One Black Person at a Time’: Eddie Murphy Revisits Age-Old Beef with Bill Cosby and Talks About Meeting ‘Idol’ Richard Pryor

July 12, 2024
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In the latest shot fired in the neverending feud between the two comedians, Eddie Murphy recently dished about Bill Cosby’s reaction to his sudden rise to fame. When Murphy burst onto the scene in the 1980s, he said it ruffled the elder comedian’s feathers. After all, he landed on “Saturday Night Live” at just 19,…

‘I Want Him to Pay For What He Did’: Mother’s Boyfriend Left Babysitting 3-Year-Old Drugs and Rapes Child In New York Home. Family Calls for Death Penalty In Disturbing Case

July 12, 2024
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The family of a 3-year-old girl who was raped and murdered by her mother’s boyfriend is calling for the man responsible for the gruesome crime to be sentenced to death. Robert Fisher, 34, pleaded guilty this week in court and confessed that he killed 3-year-old Josefina Cunningham last year. Authorities revealed that Josefina, who family…

DS Kinsel And Boom Concepts Art Gallery Are Amplifying Pittsburgh’s Hustle And Grind Culture

July 12, 2024
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Source: iOne Digital Creative Services Thousands of artists from around the world descended on Florida at the end of the year to exhibit and sell their work at Miami Art Week. Among the gathering’s 20 art fairs, Art Basel is its crown jewel. What began in 2002 has evolved into North America’s most comprehensive display…

Data of nearly all AT&T customers downloaded to a third-party platform in security breach

July 12, 2024
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FILE – The AT&T logo is positioned above one of its retail stores in New York, Oct. 24, 2016. A security breach in 2022 compromised the data of nearly all of AT&T’s cellular customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T’s wireless network, as well landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers. The…

Michael Ealy’s Wife: Meet Khatira Rafiqzada, Mother of His Two Children and an Art Collector He Takes on First Dates Annually

July 12, 2024
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Actor Michael Ealy is one of Hollywood’s most captivating stars and he recently went viral for giving his former co-star Meagan Good a bear hug in front of her boyfriend Jonathan Majors. Know for his striking baby blue eyes and menacing movie roles, it’s not hard to see that Ealy, 50, is easy on the…

New York Times Gets Dragged For ‘Late’ Op-Ed Finally Calling Trump ‘Unfit To Lead’

July 12, 2024
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The New York Times headquarters is pictured on 8th Avenue on May 16, 2024, in New York City. | Source: Gary Hershorn / Getty The New York Times published an editorial calling for Donald Trump to drop out of the presidential race—far too late, social media users expressed. A new article from the New York…

Robert Smith on his epic Morehouse donation to pay off student debt: ‘I wanted to show them there’s a Black man who believes in you’

July 12, 2024
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(Photo: Morehouse College) OPINION: In this clip from “Masters of the Game,” the entrepreneur and philanthropist explains why he paid $34 million to clear the student debt of Morehouse’s graduating class of 2019. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Robert…

Library of Congress awards prize for American fiction to James McBride

July 12, 2024
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Author and executive producer James McBride of “The Good Lord Bird” speaks during the Showtime segment of the 2020 Winter TCA Press Tour in January 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images) The award, previously given to Marilynne Robinson and Don DeLillo among others, is given to an American author who excels as a…