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Obama Gives Props to Ambitious Teens Who Were Mentored by White House Aides
When one teen in the White House Mentorship and Leadership Program told President Barack Obama that he hoped to become attorney general one day, Obama broke down some of the steps the student would need to take in order to get closer to that goal. “I walked him through all the other steps: He had…
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Michelle Obama Serves Up Summer Chicness in London While Promoting Girls’ Education
The ladies of the first family stepped off the plane in style Monday as Michelle Obama—with daughters Malia and Sasha in tow—prepared to promote her Let Girls Learn initiative across the pond, People reports. Obama, representing the United States oh so well in the fashion department, will meet with Prince Harry and British Prime Minister…
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Chicago Student Accepted at 26 Colleges and Awarded Over $3,000,000 in Scholarships
Arianna Alexander, a Chicago high school senior, got accepted at 26 colleges—including nearly all of the Ivy Leagues—and has decided to attend the University of Pennsylvania come the fall, WLS-TV reports. Alexander is the valedictorian at Kenwood Academy, where she earned a 5.1 GPA on the traditional 4.0 scale. Alexander racked up more than…
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Twitter Reacts to How a NAACP Leader Bamboozled, Hoodwinked and Led People Astray About Her Race
The devil is a lie. Rachel Dolezal, a part-time college professor of Africana studies, got a tan and a perm to curl her naturally straight blond hair, married a black man, allegedly took her adopted black brother under her wing as her own child, and has seemingly been passing as black for years. Her parents…
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Need Relationship Advice? Rev. Run and Tyrese Will Be Dishing It Out on a TV Show for OWN
Rev. Run—born Joseph Simmons—is not ashamed to speak about his days as a philandering hip-hop pioneer and how he’s much happier now being faithful and married. Tyrese Gibson openly speaks about the mistakes he’s made in relationships, especially as a famous actor and R&B singer. Both men have already teamed up and released a relationship…
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Watch: Car-Crash Eyewitness Delivers Eccentric Account of the Accident; Segment Goes Viral
Brace yourself. The following interview will likely join the ranks of Sweet Brown’s “Oh Lord Jesus, it’s a fire” and Antoine Dodson’s “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife” soundbites that were made during news segments that went viral. A local Mississippi TV station covering a car accident interviewed Courtney Barnes, who wore a lime-green ponytail…
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Fame Is Coming Back to TV on Lifetime
Some stories can be told again and again and again. And for American audiences, it seems that bearing witness to several dozen high school students clawing their way to stardom by learning to dance, sing and act will never get old. That’s probably why Lifetime is bringing Fame back to the small screen, according to Broadway…
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Twitter Hilariously Drags the Man Who Called 911 on the Pool-Party Teens With #SeanToon911
David Eric Casebolt isn’t the only one catching flak for the epic disaster that occurred after the McKinney, Texas, pool party. Sharing in the “fun” is McKinney’s Sean Toon, who picked up the phone and called 911 on the teens who were in the McKinney suburban neighborhood because, he said, they were “not supposed to…
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Watch: Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson on Sex, Race and Hanging On to Acting by a Thread
Probably one of the worst parts about stereotypes is when the person being stereotyped starts believing the hype. During a candid roundtable discussion hosted by the Hollywood Reporter about what the acting profession is like for women in Hollywood, Viola Davis admitted that she cringed when she first saw herself on TV playing Annalise Keating…
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Woman Sues Dwight Howard, Says He’s Not Making Child Support Payments
It’s funny to think that NBA star Dwight Howard came into the league in 2004 as the goody-two-shoes athlete who was going to bring his Christian values to a sport overrun by bravado, groupies, fast money and a lavish lifestyle. Boy, has he fallen short of that. Now a woman named Tiffany has filed a…
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