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Call Me ‘Master’: Ex Says Former New York Attorney General Was Into Racist Role-Playing During Sex
On Monday the New Yorker published a 6,000-plus-word exposé on now-former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, in which at least four women in past relationships with him accused the Democratic operator of physical, sexual, verbal and emotional abuse. Hours later, Schneiderman denied the allegations but resigned his position. The irony for many was that…
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1 of 3 Filmmakers #BlackWhileAirbnb-ing Is Bob Marley’s Granddaughter; Plans to Sue Police Over Excessive Stop [Updated]
Updated: Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 11:15 a.m. EDT: It turns out that one of the three filmmakers who were recently stopped by a swarm of police cars for checking out of an Airbnb is the granddaughter of the late, great reggae singer and prophet Bob Marley. The woman in the photo above has been identified…
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Mother of Young Woman Killed at Tennessee Waffle House Accepts Her College Diploma
The mother of a young woman senselessly gunned down at a Tennessee Waffle House in April accepted her daughter’s posthumous college diploma this weekend. Shirl Baker, the mother of 21-year-old DeEbony Groves, walked across the stage Saturday evening to receive her daughter’s degree in social work from Belmont University. “Almost two weeks ago, our community…
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West Virginia Pol Uses the Word ‘Negro’ to Defend Racist Ad About ‘China People’
Now that it’s “Trump time” in America, it’s clear that wypipo have gone plumb loco when it comes to spewing the pent-up racial animus they’ve obviously been holding on to for so long. As such, West Virginia coal baron and Republican Don Blankenship is making up for lost time (or a lost era—or a lost…
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Cynthia Nixon Vows to Legalize Weed in New York if She Wins Governorship
Let me find out that Cynthia Nixon is serious as a heart attack when it comes to moving into that New York governor’s mansion in 2019. As reported earlier by The Root, the actress and longtime public schools activist recently hired kick-ass consultant L. Joy Williams to advise her campaign, and now she’s taking her…
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Donald Glover’s SNL Migos Parody Was Skrrt-Skrrt Perfect
It is only fitting that Donald Glover, in his first host-ship of Saturday Night Live, did a hilarious send-up of the Migos, the group he brought to a lot of folks’ attention when he won a 2017 Golden Globe for Atlanta. In the four-minute skit, the other two black guys on SNL, Kenan Thompson and…
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A Storm’s a-Coming: Porn Star’s Lawyer Says Trump ‘Will Be Forced to Resign’
It looks as if the bumbling and untruth-filled presidency of Donald Trump has met its match in an adult-film actress and her lawyer. Reason being? Media moxie. Clearly, Stormy Daniels (real name: Stephanie Clifford) and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, are playing up their case against the president with perfect precision. Daniels alleges that she had…
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Nigerian Lawmaker Offers Kanye a Trip to Africa to Help Him Gather His Senses on Slavery
Kanye West’s antics have made it all the way to the Motherland and back, and suffice it to say, no one—in either hemisphere—is pleased. An outspoken Nigerian senator recently offered West a trip to several/any/all the slave ports on the continent for an education on slavery and the slave trade. He also said that the…
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‘If Your Seat Belt Isn’t Tight, You Fucked Up’: Possibly Drunk Flight Attendant Goes HAM on United Flight
Oh, to be a dragonfly on the wall of a recent United Airlines flight from Denver to North Dakota. On Thursday, a passenger tweeted to United saying that she was so unnerved by a flight attendant’s behavior that she was compelled to snitch tell the pilot, saying that the attendant said, “If your seat belt…
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Kanye West and Charlamagne Open Up Space to Talk About Black Men and Mental Health
It is impolite—unethical, even—to armchair-diagnose anyone in the public eye with having a mental illness, mostly because of the stigma attached to being labeled “crazy.” (It has nothing to do with privacy laws, I’m sure.) But even if Kanye West does not have an official label he wants to share publicly, he is certainly acting…
