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Michael Jackson tops Forbes' 2016 Highest-Paid Dead Celebrity list, earning a whopping $825 million dollars in the past year.

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President Barack Obama again defended Colin Kaepernick's right to protest during CNN's presidential town on Wednesday night.

Raleigh ranked No. 2 among cities where African-Americans are doing best economically, according to Forbes magazine. Charlotte tied with Baltimore at No. 4. Atlanta lead the list and Washington, D.C. was ranked third. The magazine analyzed home ownership, entrepreneurship (measured by the self-employment rate) and median household income in compiling the list of 10 cities. […]

Forbes 100 most powerful celeb’s list is out, and Oprah is back on top! A resurgence of her OWN network, and an apparent great job at managing her assets returns her to the number one spot after dropping off for a couple of years. She made 77 million is between June ’12 and June ’13. […]

All of this talk of “poor black kids” and technology has me reflecting on my own “get out of the ghetto and into graduate school” trajectory. I was a poor black kid once. But I eventually went on to earn a B.A. in English, an M.A. in Russian, an M.S. in multimedia journalism, acceptance into […]