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  • Three People Wounded During Valentine's Day Shooting At Kandi Burruss' Old Lady Gang Restaurant Near Atlanta

    Three People Wounded During Valentine's Day Shooting At Kandi Burruss' Old Lady Gang Restaurant Near Atlanta

    On Valentine’s Day night, three people were shot and injured at Kandi Burruss’ Old Lady Gang restaurant in East Point, about 8 miles south of downtown Atlanta. According to the Associated Press, a man entered the eatery and targeted another man, with two bystanders being caught in the aftermath. East Point police Capt. Allyn Glover…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    February 15, 2020
  • Donald Trump, Jr. Gets Clowned For Channeling Johnnie Cochran's Famous O.J. Simpson Defense Regarding His Pappy's Impeachment Acquittal

    Donald Trump, Jr. Gets Clowned For Channeling Johnnie Cochran's Famous O.J. Simpson Defense Regarding His Pappy's Impeachment Acquittal

    Is this another messy AF case of cultural appropriation? Or is it a dead-on comparison? (Pun intended.) Whatever it is, can someone please get these people a copy of Social Media for Dummies? In an asinine attempt to compare his father’s fugazi impeachment acquittal, Donald Trump Jr. brought up O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century.”…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    February 9, 2020
  • '[N-Word] Hating' White Student Arrested, Kicked Out of California College After Drunken, Racist, Homophobic Rant

    '[N-Word] Hating' White Student Arrested, Kicked Out of California College After Drunken, Racist, Homophobic Rant

    Dayton Kingery got an education he didn’t initially apply to school for. The 21-year-old Chapman University student was arrested and is no longer a student at the Orange County, Calif. college after going on a rant in a campus classroom and then destroying property. According to the Orange County Register, local police arrested Kingery on…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    February 8, 2020
  • White Judge Placed on Administrative Duty After Calling Black Woman Juror in a Head Wrap 'Aunt Jemima'

    White Judge Placed on Administrative Duty After Calling Black Woman Juror in a Head Wrap 'Aunt Jemima'

    While most people probably have more pressing things on their minds when they’re selected for jury duty, apparently we need to be scrutinizing what we wear, too. A Pennsylvania judge has been stripped of “administrative duties” after allegedly calling a black juror, who showed up to trial in a head wrap, “Aunt Jemima.” According to…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    February 7, 2020
  • Chicago Rapper Sentenced to 99 Years for Putting Hit Out on Mother for Life Savings, Insurance

    He desperately wanted to be famous—and now he is infamous for paying a thug to kill his mother, just so he could floss and launch his rap music career. This is the tragic story of Qaw’mane Wilson, aka Young QC, a Chicago rapper. Now 30 years old, the dreadlocks-clad lyricist will most likely die in…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    February 2, 2020
  • 'The Game' Over Before It Was to Begin Again? The CW Will Not Move Forward With Mara Brock Akil's Beloved Sitcom

    'The Game' Over Before It Was to Begin Again? The CW Will Not Move Forward With Mara Brock Akil's Beloved Sitcom

    Looks like The Game has been called off; at least for the time being. Fans who have been anticipating the reboot of Mara Brock Akil’s popular sitcom The Game will have to wait much longer because according to Deadline, the CW network—on which the original show aired—has decided not to move forward with the one-hour…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    February 1, 2020
  • New Black History: Louisiana’s Largest HBCU Launches Own CBD Line, Becoming First to Ever Do So

    New Black History: Louisiana’s Largest HBCU Launches Own CBD Line, Becoming First to Ever Do So

    The Southern University and A&M College has launched its own hemp-derived CBD product line named Alafia. Considered the largest historically black university in Louisiana, the Baton Rouge-based school’s Agricultural Research and Extension Center—along with partner Ilera Holistic Healthcare—unveiled the lab tested and pesticide-free products during a press conference and ribbon-cutting at H&W Drug Store Dispensary…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    February 1, 2020
  • Google Kicks Off Black History Month With Greensboro, N.C., Sit-In Doodle by Compton Artist Karen Collins

    As today officially marks the first day of what is regarded as Black History Month, tech giant Google is commemorating the occasion with a special Google Doodle honoring the 60th anniversary of the Greensboro, N.C., sit-in. That doodle is of Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair, Jr.), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond, better known…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    February 1, 2020
  • Deathstreaming: U.S. Army Vet Whose Son Was Killed on Facebook Live Says ‘Violence Has to Stop’

    Deathstreaming: U.S. Army Vet Whose Son Was Killed on Facebook Live Says ‘Violence Has to Stop’

    Could you imagine how it feels to have served in the military and then work a quarter of a century for the Department of Corrections to learn one day that your son has been murdered while broadcasting on social media—of all places? That is what happened to Roosevelt Rankins, Sr., whose 34-year old namesake was…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    January 25, 2020
  • Chance the Rapper Tapped for New Streaming, 'Mobile First' Version of Punk'd

    Chance the Rapper Tapped for New Streaming, 'Mobile First' Version of Punk'd

    Three-time Grammy Award winner Chance the Rapper has been tapped to host a reboot of Punk’d—the hidden-camera, celebrity-driven prank show that was wildly popular in the early aughts. The new iteration of Punk’d will appear on Quibi, a new streaming service set to debut in April of this year. On Friday, the streamer promoted the…

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    Brooklyn Baldwin






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    January 25, 2020
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