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For Black History Month, we're putting the spotlight on people who deserve their story to be told.

This is the tale of Dr. Patricia Bath, the first African-American woman to earn a medical patent:

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Black Inventors: Dr. Patricia Bath
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What are some questions you wished Quincy Jones answered in his interview?

10 Questions We Really Wish Quincy Jones Had Answered
Quincy Jones’ recent viral interviews have proved that he’s thoroughly fuck-deprived. And also, to quote the homie Sai Grundy, “the antithesis of Sway”—because while Sway AIN’T GOT THE ANSWERS, Quincy Jones definitely does.
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Tennessee sheriff is being sued after he was caught on video telling his officers to shoot an unarmed man.

‘I Love This Shit’: Tennessee Sheriff Recorded Boasting After Ordering Officers to Shoot Unarmed Man During Slow-Speed Chase
A Tennessee sheriff is being sued for excessive force after he was recorded laughing and boasting about how he told his officers to shoot a man during a slow-speed chase rather than risk damaging police cars attempting to drive him off the road.
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New studies show that less than 11% of Flint, Michigan children are proficient in reading. Is this linked to the water crisis?

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Flint Literacy Rates Plummet
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Wheelchair Jimmy is out here giving back to the people!

Drake Blessed 2 Miami Schools With a Scholarship, New Uniforms and Impromptu Concerts
Drake made surprise visits to the University of Miami and Miami Senior High School on Monday. The rapper-singer, who’s currently promoting his new single, “God’s Plan,” filmed portions of his visit and sprinkled a little do-good along the way.
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Anthropology professor Princeton University repeatedly called students the n-word during a lecture.

Princeton Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Allegedly Used the N-Word: Report
Students from Princeton University say that an anthropology professor repeatedly used the n-word in class while asking students a question, prompting several of them to walk out of the Tuesday lecture.
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Damon Young of VerySmartBrothas.com shares his definition of a very problematic type of man online—the hotep.

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What is Hotep? | A Very Smart Brotha Explains
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Day after day this administration proves that it's deplorable.

The White House Knew That Rob Porter Had Allegedly Assaulted His Ex-Wives and Kept Him Around Anyway: Report
The White House has become an endless, vast hole of shame and embarrassment. Just when you think that the allegations coming from one of the most revered and respected adobes worldwide can’t get any worse, the entire White House—staff, administration, housekeeping—is like, “Hold my folders....
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The caucasity!

The 10 Whitest Things About the Woman Who Flushed Her Emotional Support Hamster Down the Toilet at the Airport
Like sandwich cake, video games, Mary Kay distributing, and trapping, there are levels to this whiteness shit. In Pittsburgh alone, there are at least 26 different grades of whiteness, including garden-variety Yinzer whiteness, Appalachian-adjacent whiteness, well-meaning Patagonia whiteness, Lulule...
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Being white must be the only qualification needed to get a job in Trump's AmeriKKKa.

Why Is Kellyanne Conway in Charge of the Opioid Crisis? Then Again, She Does Lie Like a Crackhead
Continuing his tradition of placing unqualified, mediocre white people in jobs for which they have no expertise, President Donald Trump has moved Kellyanne Conway from her Cabinet-level position in the Department of Lying Motherfuckers and put her in charge of the opioid crisis. Needless to say, it ...
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You cannot put Chromat designer Becca McCharen-Tran in a box!

NYFW: Chromat Shows Us Diversity is Body Beautiful
Diversity is not “a thing” to Chromat designer Becca McCharen-Tranher—it’s life.
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Tiffany Brown, the woman who got a $156 million FEMA contract to provide 30 million meals to Puerto Rico and only delivered 50,000, speaks out.

Tiffany Brown, Head of the 1-Woman Company Which Delivered Only 50,000 of 30 Million Meals to Puerto Rico, Blames FEMA
An Atlanta woman whose one-person company was contracted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide millions of meals to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, but only delivered a fraction of that, says she’s being “scapegoated” by the government.
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Happy Birthday Yara Shahidi!

May your edges continue to be laid like a bridge over troubled waters!

She's Grown-ish! Happy 18th Birthday, Yara Shahidi!
Here at The Glow Up, we hate to play favorites, but we’d be lying if we said we didn’t have a very special place in our hearts for actress/activist/“it girl” Yara Shahidi. While Hollywood is thankfully steadily filling with more young, black female talent on the rise, few have shared a traje...
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Ladies, we've got some bad news...

Idris Is Off the Market—He Popped the Question to 29-Year-Old Sabrina Dhowre in Londontown
There’s going to be more than a few tears shed today around the world (What? There’s nothing in my eye!) because Idris Elba is officially off the market.
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Ummarosa said she took her White House position because she was serving her country and not Trump. Oh, ok girl.

Omarosa Still Believes She Has Redeeming Qualities, Cries While Telling Big Brother Castmate Her Time at the White House Was a ‘Call to Duty’
Well, it looks as if Omarosa Manigault Trump IV is on her Chrisette Michele “Welcome me back, black America, because I didn’t know what I was doing” tour, and the first stop is Celebrity Big Brother, where Omarosa, the former director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liai...
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Do you think Beyoncé's fame comes from her being light-skin?

Beyoncé’s Father Claims She’s Successful Because She’s Light-Skinned
Even though I am a dark-skinned black man, I stay away from the argument about colorism in the black community. Not because it has no validity, but because it always misses a valuable point that we will get to later if my head doesn’t explode before I reach the end of this piece.
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