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Cultural Ambassador Cardi B Wants to Know Where the Hell Her Taxes Are Going
It’s tax season, and Cardi B has an important message for the government on behalf of all of us: She didn’t make all of these damn money moves to not know where 40 percent of her income is going. In an Instagram video posted Thursday night, Cardi went off about the government’s lack of transparency…
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The 1st Museum Dedicated to America’s Historically Black Colleges Is Open in Washington, DC
A 638-square-foot storefront on Georgia Avenue in Washington, D.C., now houses the first museum in the world dedicated to HBCUs. Inside it, visitors will find historic photos and memorabilia from different HBCUs and prominent grads, as well as important artifacts from black American culture, like early issues of Ebony and Jet. The museum, which opened…
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Ex-Employee Files $6 Million Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Harlem Restaurant
A popular Harlem restaurant has been hit with a $6 million lawsuit alleging multiple instances of sexual harassment. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Corner Social by a former server, Alaya Jordan, who worked at the restaurant from about May 2015 to June 2017, according to the New York Daily News. According to court documents,…
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Amid Recent Security Scares, Stoneman Douglas High School Requires Students to Wear Clear Backpacks
In the absence of the substantial gun reform advocated by students in Parkland, Fla., their school district will be installing a wholly different security measure: clear backpacks. The Broward County school district announced Wednesday that it would require students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to wear clear backpacks after the students return from spring…
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Biden Would ‘Go Down Fast and Hard,’ Says Borderline-Obese 71-Year-Old With Bone Spurs
Well, this all got super stupid, super quickly. Donald Trump woke up with a bone to pick with former Vice President Joe Biden after Biden told students at the University of Miami earlier this week that he would have “beat the hell out” of Trump if they’d gone to school together. Furiously tweeting about “Crazy…
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For the 3rd Straight Season, Queen Sugar Boasts All-Female Directing Team
The critically acclaimed drama from Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey, Queen Sugar, returns to OWN in May, and once again, DuVernay has assembled an all-female directing team to tell the story of the Bordelon family. The announcement marks the third season in a row that Queen Sugar will tap exclusively female directors to steer the…
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Boko Haram Releases Some Kidnapped Girls, Warns Parents to Keep Their Daughters Away From School
Early Wednesday morning, Boko Haram militants returned to the town of Dapchi, Nigeria, to release dozens of schoolgirls they abducted in February back to their families. Sky News reports that 91 of the 110 girls who had been kidnapped were returned, while the New York Times notes that a final count is still being tallied.…
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Nazi Has Secured GOP Nomination for Chicago-Area Congressional Seat
A Republican Holocaust denier shunned by his own party will be the GOP nominee for a congressional seat representing a heavily Democratic Chicago suburb. Arthur Jones, a former member of the American Nazi Party, managed to secure the nomination by running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. As The Hill reports, Jones is an unrepentant anti-Semite and…
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Meet the Trailblazing Black Scientist Twitter Helped Identify From a Single Photograph: Report
Last week, Twitter jumped on the case of an unidentified black woman who appeared, partially obscured, in a 1971 photo taken at the International Conference on the Biology of Whales. She was the only woman in attendance in a sea of mostly white men, prompting the person who found the photo—Candace Jean Anderson, an author…
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Cardi B Says Voices of Video Vixens Absent from #MeToo
Unless it’s about pregnancy rumors, Cardi B is typically not one to hold back, whether it’s her thoughts on the humanitarian crisis in Libya or her free advice to people who label themselves “bosses” without the corresponding invoices. So it makes sense that throughout her ascension to the top of Billboard’s music charts, Cardi has…
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