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Presidential Hopeful Kamala Harris Released Her Tax Documents. Trump Still Hasn't.
California Sen. Kamala Harris reports that she and her husband had an adjusted gross income of about $1.9 million in 2018 and paid about $700,000 in federal taxes, according to AP News. The Democratic candidate for president, who released 15 years of tax returns, showed income last year of about $157,000 from her job in…
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C.J. Wallace, Son of Notorious B.I.G. and Faith Evans, Launches Cannabis Line to Benefit the Prison Arts Project
“Smoking blunts was a daily routine, since 13,” Biggie once famously rapped. But now his son, C.J., is showing the public that marijuana use goes far beyond the typical “Party and Bullshit” of most rap lyrics. C.J. Wallace is best known for playing the role of his iconic father in 2009’s Notorious biopic. Now, 10…
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Sound the Navy: Rihanna’s Launching Fenty Skincare
It’s not new music but pockets shall be emptied regardless. Rihanna is already enjoying the massive success of her beloved Fenty Beauty, as well as slaying our bad gyal boudoirs with Savage Fenty lingerie. And now, according to PageSix Style, Rih is gearing up to launch a skin care line to keep our beautiful faces…
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Man Reportedly Throws a 5-Year-Old Over a Three-Story Balcony at Mall of America
CBS News reports that an apparently mentally ill man is being held on an attempted homicide charge after allegedly tossing a 5-year-old over a third-story balcony at Mall of America in Minnesota. At 10:17 a.m. Friday, police responded to frantic calls from shoppers who witnessed a man either push or throw the child over the…
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Peggy Alford Poised to Make History as Facebook Nominates a Black Woman to Its Board…Finally
On Friday, Facebook released a statement that Peggy Alford, a senior vice president at PayPal, has been nominated to have a seat at the table, a landmark step in diversifying its nine-member board of directors. If elected by shareholders, she would become the first black woman to sit on the board. Alford is no stranger…
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#IStandWithIlhan: Trump Targets Rep. Ilhan Omar in Yet Another Islamophobic Tweet and People Are Repulsed
Public outcry has taken over social media as Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar continues to be targeted by Donald Trump and his fringe followers. As previously reported by The Root, Trump has been spitting vitriol at the Minnesota rep, mocking her just days after a man was arrested for threatening to kill her. On Friday evening,…
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Black-Owned Bank OneUnited Offers the Blackest Royalty Bank Card Money Can Buy
Just when you thought it couldn’t get no blacker … BLAOW! Turns out that royalty is in more than our DNA; it’s in our ATMs, too. OneUnited, the nation’s largest black-owned bank, recently announced its latest Royalty campaign to celebrate the power of melanated money. An official OneUnited statement on the Queen card reads: [F]rom…
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Try Again: Lori Loughlin and Husband Face Harsher Charges After Rejecting Plea Deal
Lori Loughlin thought that her being a wealthy white woman legal defense would save her. Yeah…she thought. But reality comes at you fast. Last week, the Full House actress was seen outside the courtroom like business as usual, signing autographs for all the Aunt Becky fans that came to see her. Loughlin, one of the…
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Watch: Washington Wizards’ Wizdom Dance Squad Milly Rocks, Twerks and Tootsie Rolls, and They're All Older Than 50
Who said Auntie can’t have some fun too? While most visions of NBA dance squads brings to mind young 20-somethings, a recent halftime show for the Washington Wizards showed that age ain’t nothing but a number. These wise elders know that one of the keys to life is found in living in fullest joy. Sponsored…
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More than 750K Could Lose Food Stamp/SNAP Benefits Under Proposed National Changes
This week we found out that unhealthy diets account for about 11 million deaths worldwide each year. Donald Trump wants to raise that number by at least 750,000. Three-quarters of a million people—that’s how many could lose their benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, later this year under a new proposal from…
