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Tyrese Has Social Media Meltdown Over Daughter and the Rock
The last 24 hours of social media have seen a lot of singer and actor Tyrese Gibson—and it ain’t pretty. The obviously distraught entertainer started the day by posting an emotional breakdown of sorts about the legal battle over his daughter, then put up two more rambling posts addressing Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson. This morning,…
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Mom Admits to Beating 10-Year-Old With Extension Cord Before He Reportedly Stabbed Himself to Death
A Memphis, Tenn., mother admitted that she used an extension cord to beat and choke her 10-year-old son, who apparently later killed himself. Robin McKinzie told police that she used the extreme methods of punishment to discipline her son, a fourth-grader. She told officers that afterward, the boy got angry, ran into the kitchen and…
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Prince Harry and Michelle Obama Surprise Students at Chicago South Side High School
Twenty lucky students in Chicago were treated to British and American (well, at least for us) royalty as Prince Harry and Michelle Obama came through with a surprise visit to a South Side high school located across from the future site of the Obama Presidential Center. According to a statement provided by Michelle Obama’s office,…
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Surprise? New Survey Reveals a Wide Gulf Between Millennial Whites and Millennials of Color on Race
Depending on your cynicism (or reality) meter, the results of a new GenForward poll focusing on race, racial power and racism may be shocking, especially because the conventional wisdom is that millennials are the most tolerant of all generations; they are certainly the most diverse. But as GenForward founder and lead researcher Cathy Cohen at…
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White Students at Baltimore Private Schools Caught Wearing Inmate and ‘Freddie Gray’ Costumes
Allegedly, racism is the purview of po’ white trash. You know, those uneducated bastards who love monster trucking, Paula Deen biscuits, Confederate flags and “Lock Her Up” T-shirts for a quick run to the Piggly Wiggly. These folks have more guns than teeth (dental benefits seem to have a direct correlation with how many times…
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A Black Woman, Judge Deborah Robinson, Will Hear the Manafort Case; Watch the B.S. Begin
As soon as word came that a black woman would be the presiding judge for the Paul Manafort indictment, I braced myself for what is surely to come: pure fuckery—especially from the president and the conservative press. And so it has begun. On Monday night, Fox News published an article, “Paul Manafort Judges: Who Are Deborah…
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Government Yanks $98,000 for UC Berkeley Black Panther Project After Complaints From Police Union
After pushback from conservative news outlets as well as the Fraternal Order of Police, the National Park Service has taken back $98,000 in funding for a seemingly green-lit project by a University of California, Berkeley, professor documenting the Black Panther Party. As reported by The Root, the NPS said that the project, “Black Panther Party…
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Star Stylist Brea Stinson Will Design Custom Uniforms for Winners of HBCU #RadiantDanceOff Contest
Everybody knows that homecomings are for parties, reconnections and, of course, football, but “the game” is really all about tailgating and the halftime show—which includes the band and dance teams that mystify with their smooth, gravity-defying, unapologetic blackness. Costume designer Brea Stinson—an HBCU alum who has worked her style magic on the likes of Beyoncé,…
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Okla. Ex-Cop Who Killed Terence Crutcher Will Have Fatal Shooting Removed From Her Record
Although a Tulsa, Okla., ex-cop will go down in infamy for killing an unarmed black man on video while he had his hands in the air, a judge has recently ruled that the shooting death can be removed from her employment record. In May, Betty Shelby was acquitted of first-degree manslaughter in the fatal September…
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‘Excellence 1st’: Black 6th-Grade Girls Slay Education Rap Song
I love little kids rapping. But let’s face it: Sometimes they’re just aiiight. But I was incredibly impressed by two sixth-graders who slayed the mic, dropped it and then picked it back up to dead it, spitting bars about focus, goals and being superstars in school. Jemele Hill first shared part of the video on…
