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  • Avengers: Endgame Is a Master Class in the Perfect Goodbye

    Avengers: Endgame Is a Master Class in the Perfect Goodbye

    Note: This review is spoiler-free but includes obvious references to events in the movie. Proceed with caution.  I know exactly why you’re here, so I’ll skip the pleasantries and get right to it. After being one of the select souls lucky enough to watch Avengers: Endgame prior to its theatrical release, here are five takeaways…

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  • United Airlines Employee Accused of Calling Actress Cacilie Hughes a 'Shining Monkey'

    A United Airlines employee has been charged with disorderly conduct after verbally abusing actress and philanthropist Cacilie Hughes. The New York Times reports that the employee in question, Carmella Davano, repeatedly called Hughes a “monkey” and a “shining monkey” during the February incident at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. A United Airlines employee accused of…

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  • Alabama Deputy Suspended After Making Homophobic Comments About LGBTQ Teenager Who Took His Own Life

    Alabama Deputy Suspended After Making Homophobic Comments About LGBTQ Teenager Who Took His Own Life

    In the aftermath of 15-year-old Nigel Shelby, who identified as gay, taking his own life, a Madison County deputy has been placed on administrative leave in response to homophobic comments he made on social media. Newsweek reports that under an article published on Facebook by media outlet WZDX, which detailed fundraisers and local efforts to…

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  • My Brother's Keeper: JoJo Smollett Rides for His Brother in Powerful Essay: 'What if Jussie is Telling the Truth?'

    Look, I get it. If the entire free world was after your sibling, you’d grab your car keys and ride for them too. So the fact that JoJo Smollett—the older brother of embattled Empire actor Jussie Smollett—dropped an op-ed on Sunday doing exactly that doesn’t come as a surprise. In an exclusive essay for BET,…

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  • T.I., New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Join Forces to Bail Out Nonviolent Offenders for Easter

    I spent my Easter Sunday deviating between inhaling jelly beans and watching Kanye pass out communion wafers through a peep hole. But it looks like recording artist, community activist and serial entrepreneur T.I. spent his Resurrection Sunday being far more impactful. The Hill reports that the Trap Music Museum founder joined forces with New Birth…

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  • A Blessing from Beyond: Prince Memoir The Beautiful Ones to Arrive in October

    Prior to his shocking death in 2016, The Purple One was working on a memoir. And while he didn’t live to execute his vision, it looks like he’ll be blessing us from beyond the grave on October 29. MPR News, via the Associated Press, reports that book publisher Random House has entered into an exclusive…

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  • Remy Ma Under Investigation for Allegedly Punching Love & Hip-Hop Co-Star

    Since her release from prison in 2014, “All the Way Up” rapper Remy Ma has gone to great lengths to rehabilitate her image. She’s become invaluable to VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop empire, she’s joined husband Papoose in becoming the unofficial brand ambassadors for “Black Love,” and she co-hosts the popular talk show State of the…

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  • Racial Profiling or Nah? TSA Scanners Are Singling Out Black Women

    For black women throughout the world, “Don’t Touch My Hair” is much more than the pinnacle of Solange’s discography, it’s dogma—or an ominous warning that both life and limb can be lost should you cross that line. But TSA agents play by a different set of rules. And while they claim they aren’t discriminating against…

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  • Oops Upside Your Head: 65-Year-Old Woman (and Her Bat) Give Burglar the Business

    Clarese Gainey of Gainesville, Fla., is about that action. Most 65-year-old women (and men) would hide in the closet and call the police if they caught someone trying to break into their car, but ohhh not Clarese. You know what she did? “I grab my bat, I brace myself, and I ease the door open,”…

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  • Finally! 24-Hour Black News Channel to Debut in November

    I love Baby Boy reruns as much as the next person, but I’ve wondered for years why BET completely abandoned their daily news programming. And with TV One’s decision to can Roland Martin’s News One Now in 2017, those of us eager for network news have had to sift though a deluge of nebulous coverage…

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