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Prince Leads an All-Star Lineup at the Essence Music Festival
It seems fitting that the Essence Festival—which has hosted and broken some of the biggest names in black music for the past 20 years—would have the man who at one point was so big that he used only a symbol as his moniker to headline the 20th-anniversary installment of the three-day musical free-for-all. The Purple…
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Man Who Threatened to Kill Michael Strahan Arrested Outside GMA Studio
Police arrested a man with a knife outside ABC studios Tuesday morning after he claimed he was there to “kill Michael Strahan,” the New York Post reports. According to sources who spoke with the Post, Andre Johnson, 25, was outside the Good Morning America studio around 8 a.m. when he flashed the knife in front…
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Fast-Food Worker Claims She Was Forced to Clean Bathrooms With Toothbrush
Whitney Clark didn’t think her job as a cook at a Houston fast-food restaurant would mean she would have to endure taunts about her weight or demeaning physical labor. “I just [didn’t] let it get to me because you hear it over and over and over,” she told KHOU 11 News about the daily fat…
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Woman Surrenders in Brutal Beating of Mother in Front of 2-Year-Old
The two women worked at a New Jersey McDonald’s. They didn’t get along. Their beef allegedly turned violent after Latia Harris, 25, heard rumors that Catherine Ferreira had made jokes about her being romantically involved with another co-worker. Harris is charged with confronting Ferreira on June 24 while still dressed in her work uniform and…
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Texas Tech Cuts Football Player After He Reportedly Punches Woman in Face
Texas Tech has cut ties with football freshman defensive back Nigel Bethel II after ” … he allegedly punched a female athlete in the face so hard that she will need surgery,” Raw Story reports. Bethel II reportedly punched Texas Tech basketball star Amber Battle over the weekend during a pickup game at a campus…
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Poll: 63 Percent of Americans Believe Blacks Are Responsible for Their Own Conditions
According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center (pdf), 63 percent of Americans believe blacks are responsible for their own inability to succeed. Those polled ranged from those who identified as “solid liberals” to those who identified as “steadfast conservatives.” They were asked whether they believed that “racial discrimination is the main reason why…
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We Watched the BET Awards so You Didn’t Have To
The BET Awards show has been marred in recent years with violent encounters. In 2012 rappers Rick Ross and Young Jeezy had entourages of long T-shirts and heavy necklaces that came to blows, and at the same show, rapper Gunplay got mollywhopped by 50 Cent’s crew. This year, at the many “unauthorized and unaffiliated with…
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Louis Vuitton Employee Claims Manager Called Black People ‘Slaves Who Eat Dirt Off the Floor’
Louis Vuitton, one of the oldest fashion houses, is fighting claims of racism after a Central London store employee alleges in a legal filing that he overheard his manager say to an African employee: “Black people are slaves who eat dirt off the floor,” the Mirror reports. Oliver Koffi, a sales associate at the store…
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Watch: The NBA’s Classy Move on Draft Night for Ex-Baylor Star
On Sunday former Baylor star Isaiah Austin’s NBA dreams came to a crashing halt when team doctors discovered that he suffered from an enlarged aorta in his heart a mere four days before he would have heard his name announced as a late first-round NBA-draft pick. Austin was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, a rare genetic…
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Woman Beats Mother in Front of 2-Year-Old Son
Police in New Jersey are looking for a 25-year-old woman who they believe beat and kicked a mother until she was bloody and disoriented in front of her 2-year-old son while several bystanders videotaped the attack, the New York Daily News reports. Authorities believe that Latia Harris attacked the 27-year-old mother Tuesday for allegedly spreading…
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