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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish airline Iberia has cut an advertisement showing black Cuban women in bikinis bottle feeding a baby tourist as he sings “feed me mulattas … come on little mamas, take me to my cot” after complaints it was sexist.
A consumer rights group demanded Iberia, Spain’s national flag carrier, pull the ad for [...]

I personally prefer the word “Negroes” here.
This is a quote from taken from Chris Rock back in the day. It is also my response to Sherri Winston’s recent article entitled “The growing divide between poor and middle-class blacks”. She writes:
The May Essence magazine examines the growing divisiveness between poor blacks and the black middle class [...]

(blackenterprise.com) Once upon a time, banks were institutions primarily identified with saving money. Today, many banks seem better known for costing you money. For example, many people use bank debit cards to avoid abusing credit cards. Yet, according to a new study conducted by the Center for Responsible Lending, your bank could hit you with [...]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Fifty years ago, nine black students faced down a mob to integrate Little Rock Central High School. Now, they are being honored on a commemorative silver coin.
The U.S. Mint introduced the coin Saturday at the NAACP’s Daisy Bates Education Summit, which pays tribute to the Arkansas NAACP leader who served as [...]

JASMINE DENISE DALES
Case Type: Endangered Missing
DOB: May 1, 1992
Sex: Female
Missing Date: Apr 17, 2007
Race: Black
Age Now: 15
Height: 5’1″ (155 cm)
Missing City: NEWPORT NEWS
Weight: 130 lbs (59 kg)
Missing State : VA
Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United States
Eye Color: Brown
Case Number: USVAVA07-312
Circumstances: Jasmine was last seen on April 17, 2007 wearing jeans and a brown jacket. [...]

From Wikipedia:
Haley earned a Pulitzer Prize special award in 1977 for Roots, and the television miniseries garnered many awards, including nine Emmys and a Peabody. Haley’s fame was marred, however, by charges of plagiarism. After one trial, in which he admitted that large passages of Roots were copied from The African by Harold Courlander, Haley [...]