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Nothing But 'Work': Rihanna Working on Dancehall Album and Our Souls and Bodies Are Reeaaadddyyyy
If you follow Rihanna on Instagram, you’ve likely noticed that lately, every time Rihanna posts something—particularly if it’s related to her ginormously successful Fenty beauty line—there’s a strong showing of comments to the effect of: “But where’s the album tho? 👀” It’s been more than two years since Rihanna released her last album, the instant-classic…
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Chance the Rapper Buys Influential Chicago News Site
You can now add media mogul to Chance’s formidable resume. In a new track (one of four released at midnight on Thursday), Chance The Rapper dropped word of a major new acquisition: The Chicagoist, an online media outlet that specializes in local reporting on the Windy City. Chance announced the media move in the song,…
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She Tried It: Brazilian Designer Accused of Stealing Dashiki-Print Designs from Nigerian-American Label [Updated]
Updated Wednesday, July 18 2018 at 4:00 PM: Silvia Ulson, the Brazilian designer accused of plagiarizing swimsuits from Nigerian-American brand Bfyne, has released a statement about the controversy. The statement, which appeared at FashionWeekOnline (FWO), was translated from Portuguese. In it, Ulson says that her Miami Fashion Week show “is for fun only, usually around the…
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What a Newly Discovered Gravesite Can Tell Us About Black Life Post-Slavery
Earlier this year, the remains of 95 people were found just outside Houston at a construction site for a new school. After analyzing the remains, archaeologists announced on Monday that newly discovered bones belonged to former enslaved African American who were still forced to work on plantations post-emancipation. As the New York Times reports, experts…
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Those 'Flexin' In My Complexion' Shirts You've Been Seeing Everywhere? An 11-Year-Old Did That
They’re bold. They’re bright. And they’ve been worn by some of entertainment’s biggest names, including actress and producer Lena Waithe and Lupita Nyong’o. But the most amazing part of those “Flexin’ in my complexion” shirts making the rounds of Hollywood? They were created by a then-10-year old, in response in bullying she endured because of…
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The Ida B. Wells Monument in Chicago Is 1 Major Step Closer to Becoming a Reality
Thanks to a recent push on social media, the organizers of a monument to trailblazing journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells have raised enough money—$300,000—to build the memorial. The push was fueled in part by the anniversary of Wells’ birth this week, and fundraisers hosted by author and educator Mariama Kaba and New…
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NAACP Lifts Travel Warning Against American Airlines
The NAACP announced Tuesday that it’s lifting its American Airlines travel advisory, saying it was encouraged by the progress the airline had made in addressing issues of implicit bias. The advisory cautioning black passengers to beware of traveling on the airline was issued last October after several high-profile incidents involving African American travelers. The warning…
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Racial-Profiling Pool Patrol Goes International: Black Canadian Family Say They Were Singled Out at Neighborhood Pool Over Whether They Belong
Don’t look now, but #PoolPatrolPaul appears to have a Canadian cousin out here doing his mayonnaise lord’s work. A black family in British Columbia, Canada, is alleging that they were racially profiled at a pool in their townhouse complex last Thursday. According to them, in the two years since they bought their home, this is…
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T.I. Hit With Simple Assault Charge After Incident Where He Misplaced Keys Outside His Gated Community
T.I. just can’t seem to catch a break. Prosecutors in Henry County, Ga., have charged the rapper with three misdemeanors following an incident in early May where T.I. misplaced his keys outside his gated community. A verbal dispute with the security guard who was allegedly less than cooperative in helping T.I. has now resulted in simple…
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Design Unveiled for Proposed Memorial at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, Site of Horrific Charleston, S.C. Shooting
Before white supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed nine parishioners in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the church was known foremost as being the oldest AME church in the South. Now, three years after the deadly shooting, the church plans to construct a memorial dedicated to the nine victims and five survivors of…
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