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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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Tracee Ellis Ross Loves Us So Much That She Gave Us a Cinco de Mayo Gift With a Squeeze of Lime
Tracee Ellis Ross continues to be one of our most fashionable, brilliant and down-to-earth favorites. In addition to being the perennial host of Black Girls Rock!, she has also gifted us with her hilarious videos and skits, which she has posted on social media for years. The holiday of Cinco de Mayo proved to be…
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Ava DuVernay Tells Whiny-Ass Men to ‘Sue Me’ for Using Only Female Directors in Queen Sugar
Ava DuVernay recently rolled her eyes for all of us who are tired of those with power complaining when an iota of their overwhelming privilege moves an inch toward parity. On Thursday, as she received the Woman of Vision Award at the 30th annual Ms. Foundation Gloria Awards, DuVernay recounted a story in which a…
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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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Ryan Coogler Reveals What Happened to Killmonger’s Mother in Black Panther Extra
At the very beginning of Black Panther, the audience gets to spend just a little time taking in the magic that is Sterling K. Brown as his character, N’Jobu, plots with Zuri (Denzel Whitaker in the flashbacks) on some sort of scheme. N’Jobu, who is the father of anti-hero Erik “Killmonger” Stevens (Michael B. Jordan),…
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Marsha Warfield Says She’s Ashamed of Not Sharing Bill Cosby Rumors Sooner
Actor and comedian Marsha Warfield, best known as Roz from Night Court, has used social media in the past to make some impactful statements. In December 2017 she came out as a gay woman, noting that her mother only wanted her to do so after she had died. In a more recent Facebook post, Warfield talks…
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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…
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3 Black Girls Competing to Win Trip to NASA Reportedly Hacked by Racists
Although it has been reported that NASA shut down voting after a team of three black girls was handily winning a contest it sponsored, it appears that what happened was that someone hacked the system to take votes away from the girls, and that’s why the contest was shut down before the stated official voting…
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Donald Trump Just Tweeted About His Pal Kanye and I Think I’m Going to Be Sick
I swear, Kanye West is pretty much killing us die-hard fans (or, at this point, “me”) since he’s gotten back on Twitter, ostensibly in a publicity quest leading up to releasing between two and five albums in the next few weeks. Since he’s opened the Pandora’s box of his mouth after having an alleged psychotic…
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Black Girls Most Harshly Disciplined Over School Dress Codes, Study Finds
We all know that black girls are disciplined more harshly for the same infractions as their white peers in schools (and life), but a new study shows that part of this disparity is linked to school-uniform policies. The National Women’s Law Center recently looked at school dress codes in Washington, D.C., and found that black…
