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The Most Heartfelt Celebrity Twitter Reactions to Kobe Bryant’s Retirement Announcement
Los Angeles Lakers fan or not. Kobe Bryant fan or not. Basketball fans as a whole—and even those of us who enjoy sports from a distance—bowed our heads respectfully and saluted Kobe Bryant on Sunday, when he released a beautiful poem on the Players’ Tribune announcing that he would be retiring from the game after this…
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Lil Boosie Has Been Diagnosed With Kidney Cancer
Lil Boosie revealed on Instagram Wednesday that he’s been diagnosed with kidney cancer. He took the post down, but a few outlets took a screenshot of the post. According to TMZ, the deleted post read: “I need all my fans to pray for me[.] [My] [d]octor just told me I have cancer on my kidneys.…
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A Very Blunt Samuel L. Jackson Kind of Trolls Will Smith During This Interview—but in a Good Way
Will Smith is this insightful, poetic guy who always has such profound things to say about life and career and love and marriage. Samuel L. Jackson is also a guy who comes at issues and topics from a unique angle, except he’s far more blunt and doesn’t sugarcoat anything. To my mind, Smith likes to…
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Tyler Perry Shows Off His New Bod on Facebook
Tyler Perry has been in the gym and has the results to prove it. On Sunday he posted a photo of himself on Facebook, where he’s at the beach, flexing his muscles and a six-pack that looks like it’ll be super evident any day now. Perry made note of how it’s probably the worst time…
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Black Twitter Hilariously Sheds Light on ‘Thanksgiving With Black Families’
This new hashtag that black Twitter is giving a whirl, #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies, has got me thinking about Rachel Dolezal and all of the black-culture litmus tests that people jokingly said they wanted her to take to confirm whether or not she was indeed black. There are so many things that black Americans experience individually—and yet collectively—that thread…
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HBO’s Jordan Davis Documentary Airs Tonight and It Brought Me to Tears
It’s one thing to write about the police killings of unarmed black people, but it’s another thing altogether to “touch the trail,” as we journalists sometimes say—meaning to actually hit the pavement and come into contact with the story, with the people who are personally affected by the tragedies we’ve been protesting with our Black…
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Tank Pulled a ‘Kanye’ on Twitter, Blasting the AMAs for Snubbing Tyrese
Tank was not a happy camper Sunday night while watching the 2015 American Music Awards on ABC. He hopped on Twitter and blasted the AMAs—Kanye style—for not nominating Tyrese in the Favorite Male Artist—Soul/R&B category. Ima let you finish but @Tyrese had the best soul album of all times!..lol SOUL ALBUM!.. We might… https://t.co/Ltsvd3QLT6 —…
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Magic Johnson and Mich. State Basketball Players Hand Out Food to Families in Lansing
It’s that time of year when celebrities are showing up in working-class communities, handing out free turkeys and other essential items so people can get a break this holiday season. Magic Johnson is no exception. He and his Magic Johnson Foundation, in partnership with Feed the Children and other organizations, gifted families in Lansing, Mich.,…
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Rihanna Teases a New Website Dedicated to Her Anti Album
Rihanna gave her Navy superfans some juice Thursday. There’s been much confusion about when she’s actually releasing her eighth album, Anti. On Thursday she released a landing page for the project, Complex reports, which tells users to visit the site ANTIdiaRy.com on their mobile phones. There, users are instructed to sign in, although the project…
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Missy Elliott Drops Gems About Her Career, Like How Timbaland Has Never Seen Her Record a Song
Missy Elliott is on a press tour promoting her newest single and video, “WTF (Where They From?),” and she’s revealing a lot of interesting tidbits about her career. For one, even though she took a hiatus as an artist, she’s been in the studio recording and has enough material for at least six albums. “If…
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