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Study Finds That Detroit is the Most Segregated City in the Country

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Amazon Prime Day 2021 (Day 1): The Best Deals to Shop Right Now

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Jay-Z Sues Dame Dash for Trying to Auction Off Reasonable Doubt NFT

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The Song That Never Ends: New Report Shows Music Industry Barely Passes Diversity Test, Changes Are 'Surface'

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‘I’m No Longer Making Myself Available to The Bachelor Universe’: Rachel Lindsay Reflects on Her Time as The Bachelorette, Parts Ways With the Franchise

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Will Smith Is Releasing a Memoir, and He Sat at the Red Table to Talk Fatherhood With Kevin Hart

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Adding Another Chapter to the Gorilla Glue Saga, Tessica Brown Launches a Haircare Line

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Tessica Brown Debuts Healthy Head of Hair Months After Infamous ‘Gorilla Glue’ Hairdo

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Not-So-Empowering: This Hollywood Pole Dance Studio Reportedly Caused 'Direct Harm' to BIPOC Women

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Vanessa Bryant Comes for Nike After Mambacita Sneakers Leak Without Her Permission: 'I Hope These Shoes Did Not Get Sold'

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The Beginning and End of My 11-Year Relationship With My Father

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Did You Realize That You Were a Champion In Our Eyes?

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Kevin Hart Reimagines the Black Dad in Fatherhood

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Watch: This Father's Day, Very Smart Brothas Is Giving Some Flowers to a Few of Our Favorite Unsung TV Dads!

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Video Shows Montreal Police Officers Kneeling on the Neck and Back of a Black Teenager

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Honolulu Councilman Reposts Video of Himself in Blackface on Instagram

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Proud Boys Leader Is Too Broke to be Proud, So Now He's Selling Black Lives Matter T-Shirts and...What? No, I'm Not Making This Up

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Fox News and the GOP Are Now Blaming the Capitol Riot on the FBI

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Whitehouse, Indeed: Rhode Island Senator Can’t Explain Why He Still Belongs to an All-White Private Beach Club

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QAnon Supporters Big Mad Over Trump’s December Tour With Bill O’Reilly Because It Means He Won’t Be Reinstated as President in August

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Auntie Maxine to Her Haters: 'Does the Truth Make You That Mad?' She Wants Trump Investigated for Capitol Insurrection

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Scratches Head in BLM: Congressman Claims Capitol Police ‘Executed’ Ashli Babbitt, the White Woman Who Stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6

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