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The Respect She Deserves: Treasure Trove of High Powered Stars Join Aretha Franklin Biopic
In 1967, Aretha Franklin famously sang “Take care, T.C.B.” as a refrain on her signature song Respect. A little over a year after the late, great Queen of Soul’s death, at age 76, producers of a long gestating biopic is literally taking care of business. A treasure trove of well decorated talents have come on…
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Almost Two Weeks After Death, Broadway Will Dim Lights to Honor Diahann Carroll
As they say: better late than never. On Friday afternoon, The Broadway League revealed plans to dim the lights of theaters on The Great White Way to honor Diahann Carroll. The news came a week after the entertainment legend — who actually made Broadway history over 55 years ago — died at age 84. “Much…
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Called the N-Word, ‘Woke’ White Man Ejected From Trump Rally for Wearing Colin Kaepernick Jersey
Not sure if he was trying to have a big social media moment — with an attention grabby stunt —or not, but Saul Eugene has made the news. On Thursday, the 23-year-old man attended a Minneapolis rally for Donald Trump and found himself on the receiving end of disrespect, ridicule and ire from Poor POTUS’…
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New G.O.A.T.: Simone Biles Makes History Winning 25th World Championship Medal
Numbers don’t lie. And neither does the number of medals won. Simone Biles is living proof of this as the agile athlete makes sports history for winning the most medals of any gymnast. Ever. On Oct. 13, the Columbus, OH native became the gymnast with the most medals earned at the world championship level with…
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Riots Break Out In Haiti Following Mysterious Murder of Journalist Amid Anti-Government Protests
All hell is breaking loose in Haiti. Again. Following the mysterious killing of a popular journalist, the “Pearl of the Antilles” has erupted into total chaos at the start of the weekend. According to reports, a full-scale riot has broken out in the Caribbean nation’s capital city of Port -au-Prince on Friday after months of…
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Allegedly Dressed as Black Mafia Family Kingpin Big Meech, Republican South Carolina Sheriff Candidate Admits to Blackface
Something is always rotten in the cotton—in the Dirty South. Another white person in the political arena is fessing up to their use of blackface. This time, it’s a rural South Carolina fireman who’s running for sheriff, who said he dressed up as imprisoned Detroit drug dealer Big Meech during a party a decade ago.…
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Georgia High School Teacher Investigated for Telling Class the Confederate Flag Is ‘Like a White Trash Save the Date Card’
Georgia is on my mind. An unidentified high school teacher at Hephzibah High School in Hephzibah, Ga., was placed on paid administrative leave after allegedly posting a message in her classroom saying the Confederate flag symbolizes one’s intent to “marry your sister.” One offended student told her mom the teacher put a photo of the…
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Florida Judge Sentences 21-Year-Old to 10 Days in Jail for Missing Jury Duty
Talk about getting an “n-word wake up call”—to quote legendary comic Paul Mooney. A young black man, who said he overslept and missed jury duty, got the book thrown at him. Whether or not we are now considering missing jury duty a crime, a judge in Florida says it is—and it’s punishable by law. 21-year-old…
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Joshua Brown, a Key Witness in Amber Guyger’s Murder Trial, Killed Outside Apartment
A message has clearly been sent. Joshua Brown, a key witness who testified for the prosecution on Tuesday in the trial of killer cop Amber Guyger, was fatally shot outside of his apartment building in Dallas on Friday night. The neighbor of Botham Jean, who was murdered by Guyger, Brown’s body was found on the…
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Fox News: Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant Being Investigated for ‘Profiling’ Trump Supporter
Leave it to poor POTUS’ pals at Fox News to appropriate a racialized term for when people in power abuse it when dealing with disenfranchised people. But I may be getting ahead of myself. Let me explain. Rupert Murdoch’s Republican-loving conservative news outlet spun a story about a clout-chasing Southwest flight attendant lampooning a Trump-supporting…
