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Born This Way, Baby! Jackie Aina’s Too Faced Foundation Collaboration Has a Launch Date!
Beauty influencer and The Glow Up fave Jackie Aina has continually expressed the need for inclusiveness in the beauty community. With that in mind, at her 30th birthday celebration last year, Aina announced that she’d be working with cosmetics brand Too Faced to expand its popular Born This Way foundation range. Both the brand and…
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Charlamagne tha God to Have New Series on HBO
Charlamagne tha God is bringing his controversial questions and topics to HBO. According to Deadline, HBO has ordered The Gray Area With Charlamagne tha God. The series will include four interview specials to premiere later this year. Not much has been shared about the series, including the interviewees, but the hourlong specials will surely grab…
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NYC Mayor Changes Marijuana Policy to Reduce Arrests
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday that the New York City Police Department will ticket marijuana smokers instead of automatically arresting them, unless they already have past arrests or convictions. The New York Times reports that the policy will begin Sept. 1. The new policy won’t stop police from stopping and…
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Michael Jackson Musical Headed to Broadway
It was only a matter of time before we’d see “Michael Jackson: The Musical.” Everyone’s favorite pop singer, Michael Jackson, is expected to have a Broadway show in 2020 that tells the story of his life. Jackson’s estate and Columbia Live Stage said that they have agreed to develop the stage musical about the artist,…
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HBO Film Storm Over Brooklyn to Document Murder of Black Teen Yusuf Hawkins
As part of a new initiative to promote diversity, HBO will tell the story of Yusuf Hawkins in the film Storm Over Brooklyn. Hawkins was the black teenager who was trapped by a group of white youths in Bensonhurst, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and shot to death in 1989. Actor…
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Kim Kardashian Asks Governor for DNA Test to Help Man on Death Row
Kim Kardashian—who recently helped commute the sentence of 63-year-old Alice Johnson—is using her privilege yet again to bring attention to a prisoner she believes has been wrongly convicted. Saturday, Kardashian posted on Twitter asking California Gov. Jerry Brown if he could test the DNA of Kevin Cooper. Cooper has been on death row for 33…
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Glamour Magazine’s College Women of Year Make It Clear: We Should All Be Fighting for Change
This generation is filled with young women willing to fight for change. (Because seriously, who else is going to fight for us?) Case in point: Ten women from Glamour Magazine’s 2018 College Women of the Year participated in a Q&A with Glamour on everything from “activism, #MeToo and calling b.s. on perfection.” Here are the…
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Ugandan Creates Device to Detect Malaria
It was announced on Friday that Brian Gitta, a software engineer from Uganda, has become the youngest person to receive the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Gitta, 24, created a device that can detect malaria, the disease that kills one child every 30 seconds (pdf). Gitta’s invention is able to detect the disease without the…
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White Kid Wears KKK Costume to School as an Assignment … With Teacher’s Approval
Most kids, when they get the option to choose a historical figure for a history project, choose people like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X or Barack Obama. One freshman in high school decided to choose former Ku Klux Klan leader Hiram Wesley Evans as his “historical figure.” With his teacher’s approval, the unidentified student…
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Chrissy Teigen Wishes Trump a Happy Birthday in a Way That’ll Turn the Orange Menace Red
Chrissy Teigen, everyone’s favorite Twitter troll, is causing more chatter on the site, but this time for a cause. Teigen, along with her husband, John Legend, and their two children, donated money to the American Civil Liberties Union on Donald Trump’s 72nd birthday. The family donated $72,000 apiece—a collective $288,000—to the organization and are encouraging…
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