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Twitter Drags Kevin Hart After He Admits to Cheating on His Pregnant Wife, and Hilarity Ensues
Tsk-tsk-tsk. Kevin Hart’s messy love life is moving into hoarder territory. Not only did his first wife, Torrei Hart, recently accuse him of cheating on her with his current wife and “rib,” Eniko Parrish Hart, but on Saturday, the 38-year-old comedian had to backtrack on his vehement denials of cheating on a pregnant Eniko after…
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St. Louis Continues to Protest Acquittal of Police Officer in Murder Case; U2, Ed Sheeran Cancel Concerts There
St. Louis is not having it. For the second night in a row, protesters took to the streets in righteous anger over yet another acquittal of a police officer charged with first-degree murder in the death of yet another African American. CNN reports that nine people were arrested Saturday night and at least 33 people…
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Ohio Firefighter Says He’d Rather Save a Dog Than a Million ‘[N-Words]’
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Social media giveth (connections, information, jokes) and it taketh away (esteem, time, employment). But some folks will never learn. A volunteer Franklin Township, Ohio, firefighter lost his job after his racist Facebook post came to light. What made the post especially egregious was that his rant…
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Hit With Ethics Complaint After Calling for Jemele Hill to Be Fired
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the apologist mouthpiece for the Trump administration, is being hit with an ethics complaint for her words against ESPN’s Jemele Hill. The Democratic Coalition, a super PAC clear in its disdain for the current president, filed an ethics complaint against the current White House press secretary, who said that a tweet from…
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‘Aunt V,’ the World’s Oldest Woman, Dies in Jamaica at 117
Her reign as the world’s oldest person did not last long, but her life—well, that’s a whole ’nother story. Violet Moss (also spelled “Mosse”) Brown, affectionately known as Aunt V, has died at at 117 years of age in Jamaica, after being named the world’s oldest person in April. The Jamaican prime minister announced her…
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Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta F’ Wit. And Neither Is Hillary Clinton
A federal judge on Wednesday went straight Tiger style* on Martin Shkreli and yanked his $5 million bail after prosecutors alleged that he was harassing women online, and even trying to instigate bodily harm against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Washington Post reports that Shrekli, who was out on bail awaiting trial on…
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Why US Virgin Islanders Say They Feel Like America’s ‘Bastard Stepchildren’ After Hurricane Irma
Although the U.S. Virgin Islands, which include St. John, St. Croix and St. Thomas, are part of the United States, many in the islands felt nonexistent as mainstream media covered Hurricane Irma’s trajectory with nary a mention of the territories where many Americans gladly sun-and-fun sans passport. There was talk of how Irma was affecting…
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Interview: Mother of 8-Year-Old Nearly Hanged in NH Speaks Out on Moving Forward With Her Son
Most of us were saddened and disgusted by the graphic photo of the little boy from Claremont, N.H., who was nearly hanged from a tree. If that wasn’t bad enough, the town’s police chief went on record shortly thereafter, saying of the kids who assaulted the biracial 8-year-old: “Mistakes they make as a young child…
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The Root 100 No. 1s: Beyoncé Will Forever Be Bey-ond. She’s So Fly, They Named a Fly After Her
What can be said about Queen Bey that hasn’t already been said, done, sung, texted, tweeted, explicated, unpacked, imagined? In an age when there are very few true superstars, she stands alone; one of a few black women, one of a few of her generation. Who else but a few aging rock stars is able…
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The Cleveland Browns’ Message on ‘Unity’ Is About as Bad as That Punt Attempt
The Cleveland Browns, the one NFL team that have been the most demonstrably vocal in support of Colin Kaepernick’s principled stance against racial bias in U.S. policing, played a video before the start of the national anthem in their first game of the season Sunday. And it was … interesting. Against a backdrop of patriotic…
