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Pusha T Forced to Remove Drake Blackface Pic From Instagram
The latest in the Drake-Pusha T rap throwdown is that Push had to take down a photo of Drake in blackface after the photographer said that the GOOD Music artist had no right to use the image. Pusha’s response to Drake’s “Duppy Freestyle,” “The Story of Adidon” (itself a response to Pusha’s “Infrared”), has been…
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Trump Claims African Americans Have Chosen Democrats for 100 Years—Except His Math Is Way Off
During a campaign stop WWE match political rally in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump claimed that African-American voters have been choosing Democrats almost exclusively for over a century. “African Americans vote for Democrats, for the most part. Vast majority. They’ve been doing it for over a hundred years,” he told fans at…
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Serena Williams’ Ranking Falls to No. 453 in the World After She Has a Baby, Smacking of Sexism
Serena Williams, the 23-time grand-slam champion, and possibly the greatest athlete of all time, was ranked No. 1 in the world before she left her job to give birth and nurture her daughter, Alexis Olympia, as well as recover from a pulmonary embolism. Williams, who was away from tennis for 14 months, currently has a…
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Kim Kardashian West Jumps Into Ye’s Latest Dustup and Twitter Tells Her to Have a Stadium of Seats
Kanye West continues to piss off just about everybody in his quest for self-destruction an album promotion, this time when his forever-bronzed, real-life Bratz-doll wife, Kim Kardashian West, inserted herself into his catastrophic drama. Since The Root reported on that dog’s mess of a beef involving West, his G.O.O.D. Music artist Pusha T and Drake on…
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Ayesha Curry Says Houston Fan Intentionally Bumped Her ‘8 Month Pregnant’ Belly After NBA Playoff Game
Steph Curry ’bout to whoop somebody’s ass. On Friday the Golden State Warrior’s wife, Ayesha Curry, tweeted that a Houston Rockets fan bumped her in her “8 month pregnant belly” after the Rockets beat Steph’s Golden State Warriors in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals. “Houston Corey,” who uploaded video of at least part…
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4 Maryland High Schoolers Charged With Hate Crimes After Spray-Painting Racist Graffiti Targeting Black Principal
Alas, the white kids behaving racistly goes on. Last week, four teens were charged with hate crimes after they spray-painted the n-word, swastikas, genitalia and anti-LGBTQ slurs all over a Howard County, Md., high school and targeted the school’s African-American principal specifically. The Baltimore Sun reports that police arrested Seth Taylor, 18; Tyler Curtiss, 18;…
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Trump to Naval Academy Grads: ‘Our Ancestors Tamed a Continent’
I don’t know whose “ancestors” Donald Trump was referring to when he said that they “tamed a continent,” but certainly not mine—nor those of the other hundreds of millions of Americans whose ancestry is not European (pdf). On Friday at a Naval Academy commencement address, your president gleefully proclaimed that “our ancestors tamed a continent,” adding…
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Oberlin’s Main Library to Be Named for Feminist and Civil Rights Activist Mary Church Terrell
Oberlin, one of the first institutions of higher learning to open its doors to both black people and women upon its founding in 1833, has named its main library for civil rights activist and women’s suffragist Mary Church Terrell, who graduated from the liberal arts college in 1884. The school announced this week that the…
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What’s Beef? Drake Immediately Claps Back on Pusha T and Kanye West in a Most Savage Manner
Drizzy Drake brought all the smoke to Pusha T and Kanye West, getting out a clapback to Pusha’s recently released diss track in record time and also issuing a six-figure invoice to the duo for “promotional assistance” and “career reviving.” Pusha, whose West-produced Daytona dropped on Friday and included the Drake diss track “Infrared,” continues…
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Gets Her Very Own Coat of Arms and Shows California Much Love
And it don’t stop. Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has been bestowed her very own coat of arms, Kensington Palace announced on Friday. In a statement, the palace said that Meghan Markle “took great interest in the design,” which shows California a lot of love. The coat includes golden poppies from California, and the blue…
