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The Last Thing Charles Barkley Should Be Talking About Is Race - MEL Magazine

The Last Thing Charles Barkley Should Be Talking About Is Race - MEL Magazine

features.wearemel.com — Especially on TV. But for some reason, TNT has decided to give him a show about it anyway Hand to God, TNT just greenlit a show premised on Charles Barkley examining "hot-button issues, with an emphasis on America's racial divide." Needing a clever title to hint at the show's controversial nature, Turner higher-ups settled on The Race Card?-?because for a show purported to be a serious look at "race, class and cultural differences," an idiomatic phrase often used to discredit black people on topics of race was obviously the clear choice.
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Can You Root for a Team Whose Star Was Accused of Domestic Violence? - MEL Magazine

Can You Root for a Team Whose Star Was Accused of Domestic Violence? - MEL Magazine

features.wearemel.com — Sports teams insist they care about their female fans-unless there's a championship on the line On Wednesday night, the Chicago Cubs sent their new closer, Aroldis Chapman, to the mound to finish a game that was already more or less finished. Leading the White Sox by seven runs, manager Joe Maddon decided to have Chapman come out for the ninth inning anyway?-?a move made out of unalloyed hatred for the Cubs' crosstown rival, or to appease a capacity crowd, or both. As expected, Chapman fired off 15 blistering pitches?-?13 of which topped 100 mph?-?and retired each batter he faced.
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There's No Such Thing as Hope - MEL Magazine

There's No Such Thing as Hope - MEL Magazine

features.wearemel.com — The relentless pace of black lives lost takes a toll I'd just finished reading Roxane Gay's note on Alton Sterling and American officers' proclivity for ending black life when I got a text from a friend who also had the misfortune of being born black: "they real deal out here killin niggas." Weird timing. I wrote back and told him how hard it was earlier to watch that video of a seemingly innocent man lying dead in his own blood after being executed at close range, by a cop. But this is funny, then my friend goes, "You heard about the one that just happened, right?"
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How To Eat Healthy, Even When A Cheeseburger Is Right There

How To Eat Healthy, Even When A Cheeseburger Is Right There

Deadspin — One day you'll decide to start giving a shit about your body, but that does not mean the world-at-large will help you along the way. That's something I had to learn on my own-the friends and websites I consulted before changing my eating habits never mentioned how lonely it can be to try to lose weight and exercise. When I was at 350 pounds, I figured my decision to get healthy would thrill my friends and family, and that they'd practically come and de-junk my pantry for me. Nope.
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Marvel Is Finally Adding More Melanin to Their Universe

Marvel Is Finally Adding More Melanin to Their Universe

Complex — Generally speaking, people don't like their stuff messed with, and this extends especially to hardcore comic fans. For example, it surprised no one when some of these said fans expressed their disapproval of noted black man, Michael B. Jordan being cast as Johnny Storm-illustrated white man-in Marvel's forthcoming reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise. Although it's likely the majority of folks shrugged at this news, as always, it was the reaction of the disgruntled who garnered the lion's share of attention following the announcement-of which occurred way back in February 2014.
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Sometimes, you can't love yourself at any size: How I lost 160 pounds

Sometimes, you can't love yourself at any size: How I lost 160 pounds

Salon — In a year and a half, I essentially cut a whole person from my being. After my friends recovered from their shock, they started suggesting I tell people how I did it. Because, you know, obesity is an epidemic, and people need advice, and Jared Fogle makes bank. That could be you, they'll say. But while a sponsorship from Chipotle or Sam's-the foremost entities responsible for my 160-pound weight loss- does sound nice, the driving force behind my journey was never a Jillian Michaels-like celebrity, or free burrito bowls for life.
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What About Big Blue Football?

What About Big Blue Football?

teamspeedkills.com — Because football players need love too. Though comprised mostly of middling talents on a five-star scale, Kentucky's football roster is bestrewn with kids once hailed as luminaries. No matter such stardom was largely relative to that of bluegrass talent considered a notch or three below those hailing from Florida, or Texas; once upon a time, UK's footballers were the toast of their towns-shoo-ins for "Most Likely to Succeed" senior superlatives, and small town paragons of homegrown excellence-a redundant theme applicable to every FBS roster in America. And, after years in the small town spotlight-time that ran congruent to highly-publicized recruitments-naturally, the kids became accustomed to attention, whether they relished it or not.
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Major League Baseball Has A Major Problem

Major League Baseball Has A Major Problem

medium.com — On April 15th, we will celebrate the legacy of Jackie Robinson. But before we gear up to remember the iconic color barrier-breaking achievement some 68 years ago, before we sit down to watch the network television premiere of 42, let's take a second to acknowledge an uncomfortable reality that even Branch Rickey probably couldn't have foreseen: Major League Baseball still has an issue with diversity. The percentage of black players in the Majors dipped to 7.8 last year, just over half, proportionately, the size of the at-large black population (13 percent).
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Why Freddy Adu Still Matters

Why Freddy Adu Still Matters

pastemagazine.com — You think Freddy Adu is a bust? Think again. Once heralded as the American Pelé, Adu was released by his most recent club, Serbian outfit FK Jagodina, when his contract expired just before Christmas last year. He's still without a club. On the day of Adu's release, the prevailing narrative in stories covering the news centered on the former phenom's fading relevance. If it hadn't been before, this time it was official; it was time to sweep Freddy Adu under the national rug. Though he didn't, and almost certainly won't, lead the US Men's National Team to a World Cup win, Freddy Adu has still played an important role in the growth of soccer in America.
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No One Should Stand for the National Anthem

No One Should Stand for the National Anthem

features.wearemel.com — The lone fruit borne of the Colin Kaepernick shitshow is the history lesson we got from it. In case you missed it, here's what's what: With so much attention focused on "The Star Spangled Banner," people decided to re-examine all four of the song's stanzas?-?three more than you and I remembered existed?-?to validate the poem's being worth the nationwide in-fight it spawned.
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