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Janelle Monae, Ava DuVernay, Stevie Wonder (AP/Reuters/Robb D. Cohen/Kevork Djansezian/Alice Dunhill)

#JusticeForFlint’s radical love: While Oscar’s glamour beckoned, the real artists helped Flint be seen and heard

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Antonin Scalia (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Scalia’s elite hunting pals: Meet St. Hubertus, patron saint of rich guys with guns

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Donald Trump (AP/Jae C. Hong)

America has a white guy problem: From Donald Trump to #OscarsSoWhite, our “diversity problems” are all connected

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Don Cheadle in "Miles Ahead" (Bifrost Pictures)

A white buddy for Miles Davis: Don Cheadle’s struggle to get “Miles Ahead” financed is absurd — and not surprising

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“Your manuscript is not a good fit”: How “we need diverse books” can move beyond wishful thinking

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"Unconditional Surrender," a sculpture by Seward Johnson inspired by Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day. (AP/Gregory Bull)

The science of swooning: We don’t really know why some kisses lead to back kicks, toe curls and weak knees

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“A little tipsy, dancing naked on her big bed, as adorable as she is sexy”: These script introductions to female characters are terrible and hilarious

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The seminary at Mount Saint Mary's University, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1523918p1.html'>Jon Bilous</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

“Drown the bunnies”: Mount St. Mary’s president fires faculty for backlash against his “put a Glock to their heads” freshman retention plan

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Jessica Chastain (AP/Andy Kropa)

White woman walks ahead: Jessica Chastain starring in a film about Sitting Bull is everything that’s wrong with prestige films

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The three-letter word missing from the Zika virus warnings

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Thanks for nothing, Facebook: #FriendsDay is our latest reminder that curated selves are becoming “more real than real”

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"Fresh Off the Boat" (ABC)

“It was like watching home”: “Fresh Off the Boat” makes history with funny and moving Chinese New Year episode

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Beyoncé in Coldplay's "Hymn for the Weekend" (YouTube)

Coldplay’s eat-pray-love India: Their Beyoncé collaboration is even more insidious than cultural appropriation — and it’s not the band’s first time

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Paul LePage (AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

Paul LePage’s guillotine dream: A warped, bloodthirsty fantasy of justice resurrected for the YouTube age

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White women of publishing: New survey shows a lack of diversity behind the scenes in book world

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Bill Maher (HBO/Janet Van Ham)

Who is Bill Maher kidding? Blaming “racist Asians” for the all-white acting Oscars might be the most disingenuous response yet

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Smiling slaves at story time: These picture books show why we need more diversity in publishing, too

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(Lionsgate)

May the Powerball odds be ever in your favor: Poverty, greed, exploitation and the lottery lessons we refuse to learn

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(Warner Bros.)

David Bowie, Elvis and “Blade Runner”: A fan theory to end all fan theories

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Ann Coulter (AP/Cliff Owen)

Meet your online doppelgänger: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re not really trolling Ann Coulter

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(Joshua Jean-Baptiste and Edson Jean)

The next “Master of None”: “#Josh,” a dramedy about Haitian-American millennials in Miami coming from Project Greenlight

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Larycia Hawkins, James Tracy (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast/NBC5)

A tale of 2 professor firings: Stop handwringing about student activists — university administrators are still very much in charge

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Martin Freeman in "Sherlock," Patrick Wilson in "Fargo, Dean Strang of "Making a Murderer" (BBC/FX/AP/Morry Gash)

Keep your man-child antiheroes: The new crush-worthy guy is the quietly competent, grown-up man

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Jake Gyllenhaal in "Nightcrawler" (Open Road Films)

5 excellent crowd-pleasing movies you might have missed in 2015

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