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Scandal Recap: No Valor, No Virtue
Grab your sunglasses and Advil. Because last night’s episode was mad real. After a two-and-a-half-month hiatus, “Ride, Sally, Ride” was a reminder of why we’re all still cliff-jumping, die-hard gladiators. At the very top of the episode, Vice President Sally Langston announces her plan to run against Fitz in the upcoming election. Olivia, Cyrus and…
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Scandal Recap: Of Monsters and Men
Last night was so tantalizingly entertaining and fun to watch that I literally clapped my hands and squealed with delight while watching alone in my living room. Remember when Beyoncé’s first single came out and we all thought, “This is really good, but she still could be a one-hit wonder”? Then she comes out with…
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Scandal Recap: The Murder Capital
Remember Jay Z’s song “Lucifer”? The one with the great Kanye beat from The Black Album about crime and why we do the bad things we do? Well, it’s pretty much the theme song for last night’s episode—demons are all over the place and redemption seems impossible for just about everyone. “No Sun on the…
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Scandal Recap: Pretty Hurts
Everyone on Scandal looks like they could be in a Macy’s catalog (never mind that everything is in shambles and they’re desperately in need of Iyanla Vanzant to fix their lives). In last night’s “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” episode, Jake, Mama Pope, OPA and the White House crew fall even deeper into a wormhole of…
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Beyoncé Visits the Anne Frank House
Bey has been working hard on those dance moves, but she took some time out from pop locking and dropping to pose near some exhibits at the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. And unlike Justin Bieber, Bey kept it classy and respectful. Her fans don’t miss a thing. Charla Lauriston is a standup comedian and…
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Suffering Lupita Withdrawal? Follow Her on Instagram Right Now
Emergency! 911! Get on Instagram and follow Lupita Nyong’o, stat! There’s nothing more life affirming than scrolling through Twitter and finding a link to Lupita’s Instagram that you didn’t know existed. And yes, it’s as flawless and adorable as you’d expect. Oh, nothing, this is just my family chillin’ with Oprah. No big deal. And just…
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Peter Thomas Is the Newest Real Housewife of Atlanta, Says the Internet
If you watch The Real Housewives of Atlanta, you know that Peter Thomas, Cynthia’s husband, just loves to get in on the drama between the ladies. His vocal and often critical comments about Porsha and Kordell’s split and his melodramatic confrontations have led NeNe Leakes on more than one occasion to remind him to “stay…
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Questlove Frowny-Faces Lack of Emojis of Color
Black Twitter uses a lot of emojis. Like, a lot of them. And out of the hundreds of fun symbols on the popular app, there are about two black faces. Questlove isn’t the only one who’s noticed, though. I, for one, am down with starting a black-emoji petition. Charla Lauriston is a standup comedian and…
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Nick Cannon Dons Whiteface. Internet Cries ‘Reverse Racism’
Nick Cannon has been promoting his new album in a pretty controversial way. The album, entitled White People Party Music, comes out April 1, and to get the word out, Cannon has transformed himself into exactly the kind of person who, he says, would listen to the album—a white person. Donning whiteface, a blond wig, and the name…
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Scandal Recap: Cracks in Glass Houses
Messy. Messy. Messy. Thursday night’s episode, Mama Said Knock You Out, was just one big, hot, messy lasagna. Right out of the gate, we see Olivia stressed to the gills doing her normal run-walk through the White House, trying to get an important live interview going. Frankly, I don’t know how she runs around so…
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