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BlacKkKlansMan Wins Top Prize at Cannes, Spike Lee’s 1st-Ever Nod From the French Film Fest
Love Spike Lee to death, but we wouldn’t be throwing that much shade if we said that sometimes the big homie’s films are about as good as his beloved Knicks in the playoffs. But if reports from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival are accurate, Lee’s got a winner in BlacKkKlansman, which not only received a…
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Sweet Baby Beysus! Beyoncé Went and Bought Another Church
There are far too many to count, those who worship at the altar of Ms. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter. But given that, it’s only fitting that this generation’s, er, Michael Jackson would just go ahead and get herself a church. So, yeah, that’s what she did. TMZ reports that Beyoncé recently purchased a 7,500-square-foot, 100-year-old…
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Samaria Rice to Open Tamir Rice Cultural Center in 2019
Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old who was gunned down on a playground by an erratic “officer of the law” in 2014, is mending her heartbreak by working to open a cultural center in the name of her son. The planned Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center will honor Tamir’s legacy by operating as…
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Watch: SNL Does a Spot on Send-Up of Bishop Curry From the Royal Wedding
Maybe it’s my political proclivities, but I have to say that this just-ended season of Saturday Night Live was the best they’ve had in years (partly bolstering my theory that the best art comes from darkness, so hip-hop should be back in about five minutes). Not only did the writers and players tear Team Trump…
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Why Is Bobby Moore Still on Death Row, Despite a Recent Supreme Court Decision in His Favor?
More than a year ago, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals violated the Constitution in rejecting the claim by an inmate, Bobby Moore, that he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty. And yet today Moore, now 60, remains on death row, facing…
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Former Playboy Model Jumps to Her Death With Her 7-Year-Old Son
In a most tragic incident coincidentally occurring during Mental Health Awareness Month, a former African-American Playboy model has jumped to her death, taking her 7-year-old son with her. The former Miss November Stephanie Adams vaulted from the 25th-floor window of a New York City hotel Friday morning. Some hotel employees of the Gotham Hotel speculate…
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A Black Preacher Gave a Word, and 4 Other Blackity-Black Moments From the #RoyalWedding
Meghan Markle brought all the black she wanted to her royal wedding to Prince Harry, my second-favorite gingy ever (Malcolm X being the first), now sixth in line to the British throne. Despite that fact that none of her family beside her mother, Doria Ragland, was present in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, Markle…
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White Woman Calls Security on ‘Suspicious Man With a Baby’ at Park in Washington, DC
Well, it looks like the epidemic of well-meaning white folks (I guess) calling the police or security on black people as they go about their lives is par for the course in 2018 America. It is becoming increasingly clear that although the whites have always had an irrational fear of black people, as they move…
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Couple Who Survived Charlottesville, Va., Attack Get Dream Wedding and Honor Heather Heyer
Everyone recalls that disaster of a Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Va., last year, when a raging white supremacist used the tried-and-true terror tactic of driving a moving vehicle into a crowd of people, throwing one person up into the air and eventually killing another. What many may not know is that the man…
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Spelman Makes History After Graduating Its 1st Openly Transgender Male Student
Spelman College is undoubtedly one of the finest HBCUs—because of academics, yes, but also because it remains ahead of the curve in eschewing the conservative dictates that plague many black institutions of higher learning. Last fall, the private liberal arts college for women announced that it would admit transgender women as students starting in the…
