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Citizen Welles

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Actor, poet, cartoonist and only ten." headlined a story in a Wisconsin paper with a shot of the cherubic little Orson Welles. Simon Callow's Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu (640 pages. Viking. 832.95) deals with the "only" part of Welles's life. He was only 18 months old when he startled a family doctor by saying: "The desire to take medicine is one of the greatest features which distinguishes men from animals. Read More...

Issa Rae's Book Said Black Women Should Marry Asian Men, and People Are Angry About It Now

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Actress Issa Rae drew backlash Monday for three-year-old comments she made about why educated black women should exclusively date and marry Asian men. Rae, 33, expressed the sentiment in an excerpt from her 2015 memoir The Misadventures of Awkward Black. "This is why I propose that black women and Asian men join forces in love, marriage and procreation," Rae wrote. "Educated black women what better intellectual match for you than an Asian man? Read More...

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