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NYC Mother of 6-Year-Old Brutally Beaten to Death Accuses Rikers Island Guards of Facilitating Her Sexual Assault
A New York City mother who allowed her boyfriend to viciously beat her 6-year-old son, Zymere Perkins, to death, has accused Rikers Island jail guards of allowing her to be sexually assaulted by another inmate. On Friday, Geraldine Perkins filed a notice of claim ahead of a planned lawsuit against the city, its Department of…
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Rio Wharf, Where More Than 900,000 Enslaved Africans Came to New World, Becomes UNESCO Heritage Site
We know that the largest number of black people in the Western Hemisphere— and the most outside of Africa—live in the country of Brazil, because of slavery. But did you know that nearly 1 million Africans came through a recently discovered site in Rio de Janeiro—Valongo Wharf—also known as “Slave Wharf”? The area was recently…
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Twitter Scratches Its Collective Scalp After Seeing Klansman With Dreadlocks
Lawd a mussy, I must be getting old, because I think I’ve seen it all. At a recent Ku Klux Klan rally in Charlottesville, Va., at which hundreds of protesters dwarfed the 50 or so bigots bitching about a Robert E. Lee statue, a photo emerged of a young Klansman with locs. The BBC reports…
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Prodigy Memorial Taken Down After Being Vandalized a 2nd Time
Not sure what the deal in Queensbridge is, but someone or someones may have gotten their wish to destroy a mural of recently deceased rapper Prodigy of Mobb Deep. As reported by The Root, a mural of the rapper was vandalized with white paint over the weekend, less than 24 hours after the piece went…
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Miss South Africa Dragged for Wearing Gloves With HIV-Positive Orphans
I can’t roll my eyes hard enough over this one. Miss South Africa has sparked the ire of the internet after images emerged of her wearing gloves while visiting an orphanage for HIV-positive children in Johannesburg. Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, whom the Daily Mail identifies as mixed race, posted a photo of herself wearing white medical gloves…
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Family of True Blood’s Nelsan Ellis Says His Death Was Due to Alcohol Withdrawal
Nelsan Ellis, the actor best known for his portrayal of the flamboyant character Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s True Blood, died Saturday from complications related to heart failure. On Monday, however, his family released a statement, going more in depth into the circumstances of his death, including the fact that the 39-year-old tried to withdraw from…
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Guess Who’s Bizzack? Obama to Host Gerrymandering-Busting Fundraiser in DC This Week
He’s baaaaack. And not a moment too soon. Former President Barack Obama is coming around after about six months of detoxing from his eight years of wypipo hell in office and will host a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., this week. The Washington Post reports that Obama will appear at a closed-door event for the National…
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T.I. Claps Back on Rob Kardashian About Chyna, Tiny and Their Threesome: ‘Don’t Tell Women’s Business’
Rob Kardashian continues to get the (deserved) pile-on for spilling all the tea on Blac Chyna—including that she may have shared that rapper T.I. and wife Tiny paid her to have a threesome with them. Rob, all in his feelings last week after T.I. got in his business by calling the chubbiest Kardashian all kinds…
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Kenya Moore Shows Off New Hubby in NYC
Kenya Moore is slowly, surely trotting out her new husband, businessman Marc Daly, for all the world to see. In an Instagram post Sunday, the newlyweds posed together on a boat in New York City. Although his shapely arms and chest were quite clear, Daly’s face was obscured by shadow and shades. Daly wed the…
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University of Md. Names New Diversity Officer After Racial Incidents, Including Killing of Black Student, on Campus
The University of Maryland has tapped a national leader in multicultural education as its new chief diversity officer after complaints from students about a hostile racial climate on the College Park campus and that the school was not doing enough. The Baltimore Sun reports that Roger L. Worthington has been chosen for the new post…
