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Lorde Looks to Get Her Ass Beat by Whitney Houston Fans
Whether it was inadvertent or not, dead-eyed goth girl Lorde pissed off a plethora of Whitney Houston fans recently with a truly tone-deaf Instagram post. The 21-year-old singer from New Zealand apologized Thursday night after posting a photo of a bathtub filled with water and a newspaper on its side, captioned with a Whitney Houston…
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Bye! South Carolina Threatens to Secede (Again)
The first time South Carolina left the Union, it was because the scions of that state wanted the brutal practice of chattel slavery to continue, sparking the Civil War. This time, a group of Republicans in the state House of Representatives are proposing the very same action over so-called gun rights. To which I say,…
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Howard Students End Protest, Win Concessions From University
After nine days of occupying the campus Administration Building (renamed the Kwame Ture Student Center during the protest), Howard University students have ended their #HUSitIn, having reached a consensus with the trustees and university president. On Friday the board of trustees released a statement of commitments addressing student concerns, many of which were first outlined…
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A Sad Day for Hip-Hop: Kris Jenner Is Now ‘Momaging’ Kanye West and Travis Scott
For those who guessed that Kanye West’s parting of the ways with his longtime manager last week was to make room for Mama Kris—you were right. Page Six reports that Kris Jenner, hustling matriarch of the Kardashian clan, has taken on not only rapper-producer West, who is married to her daughter Kim Kardashian, but also…
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This 27-Year-Old Mayor Is Giving Away Money to Realize MLK’s Last, Most Radical Dream
Soon after Michael Tubbs was sworn in as mayor of Stockton, Calif., he set his first objective: Disrupt the status quo. The city he grew up in, like so many others across America, had hit hard times, and the Stanford-educated native son sought to bring his millennial moxie and Silicon Valley bona fides to the…
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Judge Asks Potential Cosby Jurors About #MeToo Bias
As jury selection begins in the sexual assault retrial of 80-year-old comedian Bill Cosby, it’s clear that the zeitgeist is markedly different than it was when the embattled entertainer faced the same charge last summer (that trial ended with a hung jury). Since then, there’s been a sea change in the visibility of sexual assault…
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Deport Dem! Trump Administration Imposes Quotas on Immigration Judges
It’s so funny to me how those who hate to use quotas for something decent like leveling the playing field for the poor or working-class people of color (i.e., making sure there is enough diversity in schools, neighborhoods, buildings, etc.) are so quick to use them for criminal injustice (tickets, arrests and, now, deportations). Fun…
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#HUSitIn: Howard Students Occupying Administrative Building Say It’s Not Just About Money
Spurred to action by the recent allegations of the misappropriation of nearly $1 million in financial aid funds, hundreds of Howard University students have occupied the school’s administrative building for a fourth straight day. With unofficial student campus group HU Resist leading the charge, the students have presented the administration with a list of demands,…
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Fabolous Acts a Total Donkey in Domestic Violence Episode Caught on Video
I used to eff with Fabolous, but after he was caught acting a total psycho abusive ass on video recently, he can go right atop that heap of scorn on which R. Kelly, Bill Cosby and Woody Allen currently lie. In a recently released video shot from outside his Englewood, N.J., home, the Brooklyn, N.Y.,…
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MLK’s White Girlfriend Speaks Out After All These Years
Those of us who study black history have always heard rumors of an alleged relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. and a white woman in his younger days.
