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6 Things To Know About The Black Rock Audience
By Guest Contributor Rob Fields, cross-posted from Black As Love It was close to a year ago when I started research that would begin to answer the question, “so, who exactly is the audience for black...
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Where is the Black Julia Roberts? Part 1: Top Actresses 2000-2010
By Guest Contributor Aymar Jean Christian, cross-posted from Televisual The “black actress” stepped into the spotlight last year, as Nia Long called out Beyoncé Knowles and other singers for taking...
View ArticleQuotable: On The Academy Award Nominations
No doubt the Oscars’ overlooking of black industry players this year will come in for sharp criticism, accompanied by hand-wringing and amorphous pledges to do better. Yet the ensuing platitudes are...
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America’s Food Sweatshops and the Workers of Color Who Feed Us
By Guest Contributor Yvonne Yen Liu, cross-posted from Colorlines Juan Baten came to this country from Guatemala seven years ago in search of a better life. A bus in Cabral, Guatemala, hit his father...
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New York Magazine Deems Naturally Curly A Bad Investment For No Reason
Kevin Roose, over at New York Magazine, decided to launch a column called “Dumb Money: Exposing Silicon Valley’s Stupidest Investments.” He writes: But Silicon Valley, like any other industry, has its...
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Excerpt: Adrienne K. Updates The Paul Frank Controversy
There were some hints in the email that this wasn’t going to be my typical dismissive conversation (they want to learn from their mistake?! They’ve taken steps to address the situation?!), so I was...
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David Phan’s Suicide Sparks Grief, Anger, And A Call For Justice
By Guest Contributor Terry K. Park, cross-posted from Hyphen Magazine David Phan at age seven, at Arches National Park. Courtesy of the Phan family. After their son took his own life on November 29th,...
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What I Learned About Tech and Business from Tyler Perry
by Guest Contributor Jon Gosier, originally published at Gosier.org When I tell people I used to work for Tyler Perry there are overwhelmingly two reactions. The first is the number of people around...
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