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Andrea Constand Speaks: ‘I Forgave Bill Cosby for What He Did to Me’
The woman who was at the center of Bill Cosby’s recent trial, Andrea Constand, says that although it’s taken years, she’s forgiven Cosby for the 2004 drugging and indecent assault of which he was convicted in April. “I forgave Bill Cosby for what he did to me, “ she said on NBC’s Dateline on Friday…
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Drake Flew His ‘Secret Son’ Out on Private Jet for Christmas: Report
Maybe Drake is not as much of a deadbeat as they say. Ever since his whole personal life was blown to bits by Pusha T in “The Story of Adidon,” including the allegation that Drake had fathered a son named Adonis with a former porn star, Sophie Brussaux, the usually verbose and quick-to-clap-back rapper has been…
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Jim Carrey Excoriates the NFL’s New Policy in One Sweet Tweet
He went on to get more mainstream fame than most of his peers, but, lest we forget, actor Jim Carrey made his bones on In Living Color, a white man in a sea of black comedic icons like David Alan Grier, the Wayans brothers, Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx. Unlike the players in the NFL…
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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…
