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Kevin Hart Denies Cheating Rumors
Kevin Hart has responded to rumors of cheating on his new wife, who is pregnant. Earlier this week, a video emerged of a man who arguably looks like Hart, heatedly talking to a woman in a car in early July—a woman who is not his wife, Eniko. The comedian and recent author took to Instagram…
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2 Baltimore Cops Plead Guilty in Federal Racketeering Case
Two former Baltimore police officers pleaded guilty Friday to federal racketeering charges, admitting that they used the citizens of Baltimore as personal ATM machines by robbing them, sometimes of tens of thousands of dollars, as well as falsely billing the Baltimore Police Department for overtime. Former Detectives Maurice Ward, 36, and Evodio Hendrix, 32, were…
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The WNBA’s Seattle Storm Publicly Partners With Planned Parenthood
Given that the team is owned by three women, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the WNBA’s Seattle Storm has partnered with Planned Parenthood, the first such partnership between the embattled reproductive health care organization and a professional sports team. “I personally got my first birth control with Planned Parenthood,” said Storm…
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In Addition to Killing Weed, Jeff Sessions Wants Police to Take All Your Shit, Too
What is the world coming to? U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is steadily trying to take us back to the ’80s (I wouldn’t fault you if you thought I was talking about the 1880s, but slavery was over then, so … ). Less than a week after saying that he wants the country to go…
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Ebony’s Linda Johnson Rice Joins Board of Tesla
Elon Musk appears to be heeding the call of a group of disgruntled investors by bringing two new members onto Tesla’s board. One of them happens to be a black woman. In an announcement Monday, the Tesla CEO named Johnson Publishing Co. CEO Linda Johnson Rice as an independent director on Tesla’s board. Johnson Rice…
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Why Michael Vick—Who Killed Dogs—Should Have Nothing to Say to Colin Kaepernick, Who Stands Up for Black People Being Killed Like Dogs
Updated Tuesday, July 18, 2017, 1 p.m. EDT: Colin Kaepernick appears to have responded to Michael Vick’s words with a simple tweet entitled “Stockholm Syndrome.” Earlier: I don’t know why Michael Vick would think that he is in any position to tell anybody how to rehab his image, but the convicted dogfighter and gambling-ring operator…
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NYC Commemorates the 3rd Anniversary of Eric Garner’s Death While Activists Still Call for Justice
Today, July 17, marks the third anniversary of the death of Eric Garner, the Staten Island, N.Y., husband and father who was killed by New York City police—his last words the refrain, “I can’t breathe,” invigorating a nascent Black Lives Matter movement and driving thousands into the streets to protest. Many took to social media…
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Queen Sugar Actor Comes Out as Transgender—on His Own Terms
The character of Toine Wilkins, a transgender police officer on OWN’s critically acclaimed series Queen Sugar, is the first trans person Brian Michael Smith has ever portrayed, and is perhaps the first portrayal of an African-American trans man on a major television show. Since beginning his professional acting career some six years ago, Smith has…
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$10 Says O.J. Will Be Paroled This Week, but Naysayers Bet Wypipo Ain’t Never Letting This Dude Out
Will white folk forgive the craven racial-sexual tragedy that was O.J. Simpson, a man deified, deracialized and built up, but then reviled and hated, exposing the racial rift in this country that always was? Be clear: Folks built their careers off of O.J.: Greta Van Susteren. Harvey Levin and TMZ. The nascent Kardashian brand. Just…
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Chicago Cop Accused of Beating Black Woman in Handcuffs Owns Several Racist Web Domains: Report
The city of Chicago is set to pay out yet more money to yet another victim of its abusive police force—the same city in which taxpayers doled out nearly a quarter billion dollars during a four-year span—but that’s a whole other story. In one of the latest payout cases, lawyers for Patassa Johnson—who alleges that…
