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Take That Charles Barkley. You know, Sir Charles who said that the Golden State Warrior’s Steph Curry “Is just a great shooter, nothing more.”

Bernie Sanders needs more people. Preferably African American people who live in the South.

A teenager was reportedly shot by police in Salt Lake City on Saturday sparking hostilities from bystanders and resulting in the deployment of about 100 police officers to the downtown area, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.

Yo, Academy Awards, this is how it’s done.

A melee broke out near the site of a planned Ku Klux Klan rally as counter protesters laid into Klan members resulting in three stabbings, according to Reuters.

As one may have surmised by the email heard round the (black) world Friday, MSNBC will sever ties with Melissa Harris-Perry, effectively canceling her show, according to a Washington Post report and confirmed by Richard Prince’s Journal-isms this weekend.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hammered Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with a revolutionary win of her own in South Carolina Saturday. And not by a little, by a ton. Black voters rocketed her to victory, making up 61 percent of the South Carolina voters in the Democratic primary. 

Those advocating for a freer and more just America have always used the latest communications technology to further their aims. In 1841, abolitionist Frederick Douglass launched the North Star newspaper using the advanced communications technology of the 19th century, the printing press, to fight for the freedom of black people. Douglass and the suffragists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries followed in the tradition of the great pamphleteers, such as Thomas Paine, who built support among... Читать дальше...

For the past three years, more than 200 black ski and snowboard enthusiasts have descended on the beautiful, powder-snow-covered mountains of Hokkaido, Japan, thanks to one snowboard-loving African-American professor who lives and works in Japan.

It's a big win in a big test for the black vote on the Democratic side.