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1st-Ever Black Hockey Player for Team USA Hits the Ice for Winter Olympics
So apropos that it’s Black History Month because Jordan Greenway will be making some black history when he steps onto the ice for the 2018 Winter Olympics as the first African American to be named to the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team. At 6 feet, 5 inches tall and 238 pounds, the 20-year-old will also…
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Trump’s Revolving Door: No. 3 at the Justice Department Out After 9 Months
They’re scattering like rats from a sinking ship. Just days after two officials in the Trump administration resigned over domestic-abuse allegations, and amid rumors that his chief of staff wants to go, Rachel Brand, No. 3 at the Department of Justice, is leaving after nine months on the job. As associate attorney general, Brand is…
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Temptations Singer Dennis Edwards May Have Been Abused Before His Death: Report
Dennis Edwards, the man whose rich, raspy voice held the bottom of so many of the Temptations’ hits, including “I Can’t Get Next to You” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” was allegedly abused before his death, according to a recent report. Edwards died on Thursday, Feb. 1, from complications from meningitis. The St. Louis…
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Black-Adjacent Hollywood Manager Shuts Down Agency Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations
Updated, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, 5:15 p.m. EST: Hollywood talent manager Vincent Cirrincione has reportedly shuttered his company, Vincent Cirrincione Associates, after being accused of sexually harassing nine women over the span of 20 years. The former manager and business partner of A-list starlets such as Halle Berry and Taraji P. Henson, who reportedly dropped…
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Yes, There Was Slavery in New York, and a NYC College Has Compiled a Free, Searchable Database From That Terrible Time
For those African Americans who are desperately trying to trace their lineage, or for those history buffs who want to explore this country’s vast legacy of slavery, there is now the first-ever index of those enslaved in New York state dating to as early as 1525 and ending around the Civil War. The John Jay…
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Former US Attorney General Eric Holder Goes Hollywood With Main Justice
Our best and favorite president, Barack Obama, had a great attorney general in Eric Holder, who, like Obama, is living his best life since leaving the White House. A life that has apparently taken him to Hollywood. According to Deadline, Holder will be executive-producing Main Justice, a legal drama series inspired by … get this…
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The Numbers Are In: Super Bowl Ratings the Lowest in 8 Years
The accounting has been done—at least in part—and unsurprisingly, ratings were down for Super Bowl LII, in which Philadelphia bested those annoying New England Patriots 41-33 for its first-ever Super Bowl win. Whether you didn’t watch out of protest against the treatment of former quarterback Colin Kaepernick (as more than 200,000 who signed this petition…
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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…
