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A Tweet-By-Tweet Breakdown Of Peak Kanye Going Peak Kanye And Breaking The Internet
Wednesday afternoon at approximately 2pm EST, Kanye West, fueled by his unfathomably and ridiculously awkward “beef” with Wiz Khalifa, began the Twitter rant to end all Twitter rants. When did the rant end? I’m not exactly sure. It’s 3:57 EST at this moment, and he apparently is still going. And I’m still processing that A)…
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Quiz: Exactly How Hotep Are You?
Earlier today, B.o.B. submitted a first-ballot entry into the Hotep Hall-of-Fame with a diss track directed towards Neil Degrasse Tyson where the Atlanta “rapper” doubled down on his assertion that the world is, in fact, flat and not round. (And yes, this means he also believes Earth has an actual edge. Like a cliff. And you…
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BET's #NeverForget "N*gga Wake Up" Call To Stacey Dash Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened Last Week
It’s been a particularly strong last few days for Blackest Thing of the week contenders. Perhaps the East Coast white-out made us all subconsciously double down on our Blackness, like seeing all that snow outside made us channel our inner Sojourner Truths. I don’t know. I do, however, know that today there are three contenders who…
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Why Macklemore’s ‘White Privilege II’ Still Misses the Mark, Explained
Who is Macklemore? Have you ever been to Whole Foods on a Saturday afternoon, when it’s giving out free samples? And there’s this superfit and ultra-earnest bearded man passing out surprisingly tasty and unfathomably expensive vegan-chorizo hash? Macklemore is that guy, if that guy were also a rapper. But isn’t Macklemore very popular? A quick…
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Her Name Was Janese Talton-Jackson and She Was Killed Because She Said No
I did not know Janese Talton-Jackson on a personal level. There’s a chance I might have seen her before. And a lesser chance I might have spoken to her. But if I did either, I don’t remember. But after news of her death began to circulate on Facebook on Friday afternoon, and more and more…
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Her Name Was Janese Talton-Jackson. And She Was Killed Because She Said "No"
I did not know Janese Talton-Jackson on a personal level. There’s a chance I might have seen her before. And a lesser chance I might have spoken to her. But if I did either, I don’t remember. But after news of her death began to circulate Facebook Friday afternoon, and more and more people spoke of…
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Why Is Stacey Dash So Damn Stupid? An Investigation
On Wednesday, life-size human Bratz doll Stacey Dash found her way to a television studio. Flabbergasted that a human Bratz would have the wherewithal and agency to walk into a television studio, the people at the studio began filming her, hoping, perhaps, to capture a miracle. And then, while being filmed, she opened her mouth. And…
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A List Of Things You Can Do In The 263 Years Daniel Holtzclaw Will Be Rotting In Prison
Human Burning Man tipped-over Port-a-Potty Daniel Holtzclaw will spend the rest of his life — plus approximately 200 more years — in prison after being convicted of the rapes and sexual assaults of 13 Black women while he was an Oklahoma City police officer. This sentence gives Holtzclaw over two and a half centuries to cry all the tears…
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Who Causes More White Tears: Cam Newton Or Serena Williams?
As mentioned here numerous times before, Serena Williams’s entire career has been a prolonged troll for White Tears. From the moment the Williams sisters emerged from Compton and disrupted the tennis world’s effete and bourgeois establishment, White Tears have trailed her the way breadcrumbs trailed Hansel and Gretel. They’re shed when she wins, when she receives awards, when…
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Why Awards Like The Oscars Matter To Black Artists, Explained
Who is Janet Hubert? Janet Hubert is a veteran actress best known for her role as Vivian Banks on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” In season four of the show, Hubert was replaced by Daphne Maxwell Reid; an act that upset so many Black people that an professed affinity for the “First Aunt Viv” has become…
