From the moment she entered the spotlight during her husband’s presidential campaign, former First Lady Michelle Obama said, she knew she would not be given the benefit of the doubt like other first ladies were. “For a minute there, I was an angry Black woman who was emasculating her husband,”…
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Opinion: R. Kelly and the Interview That Should Have Never Happened
R. Kelly appeared on “CBS Morning News” on Wednesday morning with Gayle King. In an exclusive interview, the singer, who is facing sexual abuse charges, denied the allegations. His current charges involve four women, three of whom were underage at the time of the reported events. There have also been…
Virginia Gov. Northam’s ‘Misconception’ of Indentured Servitude and Slavery
In an interview with CBS anchor Gayle King, which aired on Sunday, Virginia State Gov. Ralph Northam referred to enslaved Africans as “indentured servants.” The governor, who refuses to resign after his blackface transgression while in medical school, acknowledged that the state of Virginia was once “the heart of the…
Chris Rock at the Oscars: Hollywood is ‘a different type of racist’
By Sheryl Estrada Chris Rock at the 88th Annual Academy Awards In his opening monologue at the 88th Annual Academy Awards Sunday night, host Chris Rock used his comedic style of humor mixed with brutal honesty to address the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, while wearing a white tuxedo jacket. For the second…