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30 Years Later, 7 Ways A Different World Was Woke AF
A Different World was an American sitcom that aired for six seasons beginning in September 1987, making it 30 this year. The show focused on students attending a fictional historically black college in Virginia, Hillman, the alma mater of Clair and Cliff Huxtable of The Cosby Show. While the show has been cited as a…
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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…
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Why Is the Only Brown Corn Pop the Janitor? Kellogg’s Called Out for Racist Cereal Box
First it was Shea Moisture. Then Pepsi. Then Dove. And now my son’s beloved Corn Pops have shit the proverbial race bed. Bad ads! Kellogg’s, which makes the tasty cereal, says it will make over its cereal boxes after an astute consumer pointed out that of all the cartoon corn pops populating a retail mall…
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124 Dead in Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in Madagascar (We Kid You Not)
Being geography deficient, the only thing that I, like most Americans, knew about Madagascar was that it was Africa-adjacent (it is an island off the coast of Mozambique) and that it had an animated movie named for it. Unfortunately, the nation of 24 million has a point of infamy these days: The island nation is…
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Kendu Is Still Scheming on Mary J.’s Money, Asks Courts to Double Spousal Support to $65,000 a Month
Even though he got hit off with $30,000 a month in spousal support, Mary J. Blige’s ex-husband, Kendu Isaacs, has reportedly got his rusty, dusty hand out for more. According to a report, Isaacs recently filed documents for more money because Mary’s decision to talk and sing about him and their divorce has apparently made…
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Texas Father Who Reported His 3-Year-Old Daughter Missing Believed to Have Dumped Her Body: Report
Sometimes the sum of the story is just this: Jesus Effing Christ. A missing toddler in suburban Dallas apparently did not wander off, but died in front of her father by choking, and he then dumped the 3-year-old’s body in a culvert, authorities say. Wesley Mathews reported his daughter, Sherin Mathews, missing on Oct. 7.…
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Prince’s Personal Photographer (and Yara Shahidi’s Dad) Releases Never-Before-Seen Photos in New Book
Afshin Shahidi, a photographer who spent more than 20 years taking intimate, candid photos of Prince, is releasing a book of some never-before-seen photos. The book, Prince, a Private View, will be released Wednesday, according to ABC News. “The album covers for me … are what I was most proud of,” Shahidi told ABC. “I…
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Hip-Hop Podcast Host ‘Combat Jack’ Reveals Colon-Cancer Diagnosis
Founder and host of the “undisputed No. 1 hip-hop podcast” out here, The Combat Jack Show, Reggie “Combat Jack” Ossé announced Monday that he is battling colon cancer. Ossé posted a note divulging his diagnosis on his social media accounts. “Internets, what’s up? It’s your man Combat Jack. In 7 years of podcasting, I’ve never…
