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7-Year-Old Chicago Boy Fatally Shot in Chest While Playing Outside on 4th of July
At first Antonio Brown thought the gunshots he heard were fireworks, until someone yelled that his son, 7-year-old Amari Brown, had been shot. According to WGN-TV, Amari was shot in the chest Saturday while playing outside on a Chicago street during the July Fourth holiday. Amari later died during surgery at a local hospital. Brown was…
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Watch: NYC Police Officer Who Boxed With Suspect Is Being Investigated for Excessive Force
On Wednesday, Saykou George, 30, took out his wallet to present his ID to a plainsclothes New York City police officer in Harlem, and things took a turn for the worse—very quickly. In cellphone video of the incident, George and the police officer exchange words as George gives his license to the officer. A few…
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Black Supporters of the Confederate Flag: ‘Don’t Let Cowards in Bedsheets Hijack Its Meaning’
There’s Karen Cooper, the Virginia woman who described how the Confederate flag, to her, represents defiance in the face of oppression. “I actually think that it represents freedom,” Cooper, a black woman, says in a webisode of the documentary Battle Flag. “It represents a people who stood up to tyranny.” According to the Washington Post, Cooper takes…
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Michelle Obama Has Girl Scout Sleepover on the White House Lawn
It seems there’s nothing that first lady Michelle Obama won’t do to stress the tenets of her Let’s Move initiative that gets children to take exercising and eating healthy seriously, including turning her backyard into a campsite for 50 Girl Scouts. That’s right: On Tuesday the White House South Lawn was littered with marshmallows, tents, campfires—well,…
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The Teen Who Designed Her African-Print Prom Dress Whipped Up a Dress for Naturi Naughton to Wear at the BET Awards
Kyemah McEntyre, that 18-year-old prom-dress slayer we told you about a few weeks ago, put her designing skills to use once again. And this time, her work was featured on a more prominent stage. Power actress Naturi Naughton showed up on the 2015 BET Awards red carpet rocking a dress designed by McEntyre. Like McEntyre’s prom…
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NeNe Leakes Is Leaving Real Housewives of Atlanta: ‘I Won’t Miss the Negativity’
The Queen Mother of Bravo’s Housewives franchise is exiting the building. NeNe Leakes told People magazine Monday that she will not be returning to next season’s Real Housewives of Atlanta. Arguably the most recognizable character in all the franchise—and reportedly the highest paid—Leakes described how she and her husband, Gregg Leakes, wrestled with the decision…
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Raven-Symoné: ‘Oprah Told Me Black Twitter Was Going to Hate Me Forever. She Was Right’
Call Oprah “Miss Cleo,” because she warned Raven-Symoné that Twitter was not going to take too kindly to Raven-Symoné’s preference to be considered “an American” and not an “African American.” “She told me that black Twitter is going to hate me forever,” Raven-Symoné revealed during an interview with US Weekly. “She was right,” Raven-Symoné said, laughing. “I…
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Twitter Mocks Tamar Braxton’s Facial Expressions During Her Duet With K. Michelle
Instead of focusing on the fact that Tamar Braxton and K. Michelle were burying the hatchet and coming together to let bygones be bygones at the 2015 BET Awards, online conversation converged on a couple of Braxton’s facial expressions during their duet. In one expression, one of her eyes shrinks while the other remains open.…
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Kanye West Says if He Hadn’t Moved to Los Angeles, His Mom Would Still Be Alive
In an interview with Q magazine, Kanye West opened up about a woman and a little girl in his life who are both very dear to him: his late mother, Donda West, and his 2-year-old daughter, North West. Climbing to the top of the charts is no small feat, and it can take a toll…
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Viola Davis on Colorism in Hollywood: ‘If You Are Darker Than a Paper Bag, Then You Are Not Sexy, You Are Not a Woman’
When you see a chocolate-complexioned actress on TV in a complex and sexualized role, clap for that woman and whoever cast her, Viola Davis argues, because dark-brown women have to contend with the colorism hurdle just to land quality roles, the Academy Award nominee revealed during an interview with The Wrap. “The paper-bag test is…
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