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  • ‘Long Live the King’ Black Panther Commercial Wins the Super Bowl

    King T’Challa, also known as the Black Panther, came all up through the TV screen during Super Bowl LII, and hands down, the ad won. The commercial uses the set from the film, in which we hear actor Chadwick Boseman’s lilting voice as T’Challa, reveling in all his coolness in the spot featuring the all-new…

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  • #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay Is Trending on Twitter as a Big FU to J.T.

    The denizens of that most promising place of perfected pettiness known as Black Twitter have spoken up loud and clear about the Super Bowl, Justin Timberlake and Miss Janet Jackson—or, as one talented scribe says, “Saint Damita Jo.” All of the above has been rolled into #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay, which happens to coincide with Justin Timberlake’s Super…

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  • Facebook Group Deactivated After Vowing to Target Black Panther on Rotten Tomatoes

    A Facebook group that plotted and planned to create mayhem for the Black Panther movie on crowdsourced film-review site Rotten Tomatoes has been taken down. On Friday, Facebook deactivated the group Down-With-Disneys-Treatment-of-Franchises-and-its-Fanboys, reportedly started by a dude who calls himself “alt-right” or, in black-speak, “all-white.” In the last week, the group created an event, “Give…

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  • Sheila E. Says There Will Be ‘No Hologram’ During J.T.’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

    Updated Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, 11:10 a.m. EST: After what proved to be some serious blowback after rumors that Justin Timberlake would be using a Prince hologram for his Super Bowl halftime show, longtime Prince collaborator Sheila E. confirmed last night that there would be none. Sheila E. said that she spoke to Timberlake on…

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  • Maryland County Passes a Black Lives Matter Week of Action for All Its Schools

    The Prince George’s County school board voted unanimously on Friday to pass a resolution (pdf) called the “Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools” so that the 128,000 students in the second-largest school district in Maryland will learn about and discuss the Black Lives Matter movement starting Monday. Fox 5 DC reports that the…

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  • Black Unemployment Is Back Up. Way Up. What Will Trump Have to Say Now? 

    Well, that was fast. The black unemployment rate in the United States, which fell to a record low in December, something President Donald Trump gleefully took credit for, has made its biggest jump upward since 2012. Now run tell that. According to the Labor Department’s monthly employment report, released Friday, joblessness among black Americans rose…

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  • Angela Rye Talks the State of the Black Union. Next Stop ‘the Black Party’?

    The premiere of Angela Rye’s four-episode special for BET was a riff on President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union, wherein he continued to dip into his bag of cheap tricks, pulling out dog whistles and race-baiting to assure his “base” that he’s the white supremacist in chief. As usual, Rye, former general counsel…

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  • Black Panther Hits the Red Carpet Live and You Can Partake, Too

    The red carpet will be awash in blackness Monday night as the gorgeous melanated cast of Marvel’s Black Panther hits the red carpet for the Red Carpet World Premiere. Marvel Studios tweeted all about it on Monday. To be clear, this red-carpet premiere differs from the premiere-premiere, which will take place later. Monday night’s fete…

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  • The Cleveland Indians Are Getting Rid of Racist Logo but Sticking to Racist Name

    It is not lost on this writer that the name of the stadium where the Cleveland Indians play is “Progressive.” Why? Because the name of the team that plays there and its mascot are anything but. In fact, the fire-engine-red, big-nosed caricature is … what’s the word that white folks hate again? … oh yeah,…

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  • Exclusive: Auntie Maxine Will Have Some Choice Words for Trump During Angela Rye’s State of the Union on BET

    Well, even if Tuesday’s State of the Union by President Donald Trump makes you roll your eyes into the very back of your head, there will be a reprieve, children. Political pundit Angela Rye, who has risen to become a prominent voice for a black community under siege, will break it all down during the…

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Ms. Bronner Helm is the Senior Editorial Director at Colorlines. Mouthy Black Girl. Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow. Shea Butter Feminist. Virgo Sun, Aries Moon.


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