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  • Diddy Changes His Name to ‘Brotherly Love’ Cuz Hey, It’s Scorpio Season 

    Sean Combs might have ’em all beat when it comes to reinvention. The man who has been known as “Puff Daddy,” “Sean,” “Puffy” “P. Diddy” and most recently “Diddy” has done it again. In a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, he announced that in honor of his 48th birthday, he was changing his name…

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  • ‘It’s Okay to Be White’ Signs Papered All Over the Country Because Everyone Knows White People Are Oppressed

    A favorite book of both of my children (they’re 11 years apart) is It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr, a colorful text that gently teaches tolerance. From the mundane (“It’s okay to wear glasses”) to the profound (“It’s okay to have different moms”) to the silly (“It’s okay to eat macaroni and cheese…

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  • 25-Year-Old American Jailed for Tweet Criticizing Zimbabwean Leader Robert Mugabe

    A young white American woman is finding her life held in the balance by an African dictator. Twenty-five-year-old New Jersey native Martha O’Donovan is accused of calling the 93-year-old president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, a “selfish & sick man” in a Twitter post that showed him with a catheter, and is facing 20 years in…

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  • ‘Aloha Also Means Goodbye’: Hawaii Gives Trump the Trolling He Deserves

    Because President Donald Trump built his political career on the racist “Birther” theory claiming that former U.S. President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, Hawaii had an answer for the 45th POTUS when he touched down in Obama’s home state Friday. Trump was greeted at the airport with signs reading “Welcome to…

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  • Iowa Cheerleader Quits Team After School Says Students Cannot Kneel During Anthem

    A Buena Vista University cheerleader resigned from her squad last week after the school instituted a policy mandating that players and cheerleaders stand during the national anthem. Sophomore Alyssa Parker, who had been on both the football and basketball cheer teams since her freshman year, was one of nine cheerleaders who knelt during the national…

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  • City of Miami May Be Sued for Releasing Photos of Firefighters Fired in Noose Incident

    There are two things that incense me about this story. The first: that the city of Miami screwed up and now wants the media not to do its job. The second? That at least one of the alleged perpetrators of a horribly racist act looks black AF, and willingly participated in this anti-black fuckery. He…

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  • 19-Year-Old Harvard Student Becomes America’s 1st Youth Poet Laureate

    In April, 19-year-old Amanda Gorman was named America’s first national youth poet laureate. The Los Angeles native is a sophomore at Harvard University studying sociology. According to the New York Times, Gorman’s work is “a cleareyed mix of autobiography, social issues like Islamophobia, and historical motifs picked up from her college’s library.” In addition to…

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  • Man Found Guilty of Murder of 16-Year-Old Gender-Fluid Iowa Teen Kedarie Johnson

    A 23-year-old man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in the death of a gender-fluid high school junior, whose case was supported by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The Des Moines Register reports that a jury took 90 minutes to find Jorge Sanders-Galvez guilty in the vicious murder of 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson, who “was a…

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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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  • 6 Women Accuse Rush Hour Director Brett Ratner of Sexual Harassment or Misconduct

    The man who lost out on hosting the 2012 Oscars for saying “Rehearsal is for fags” is the latest Hollywood power player to have sexual-misconduct allegations made against him. Six woman have come forward with accusations against 48-year-old filmmaker Brett Ratner, best known for producing films like Rush Hour and its sequel and for being executive…

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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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