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Lupita Nyong'o on Us Doppelgänger Controversy: 'I Crafted Red With Love and Care'
After just delivering the highest grossing opening weekend film headlined by a black woman, you would think Us star Lupita Nyung’o would be on the highest of highs. But unfortunately, her performance as Red—the deranged doppelgänger of matriarch Adelaide—has drawn outrage from the disabled community due to its perceived insensitivity. In discussing the role, Nyung’o…
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Once Upon a Black-Ass White House: Questlove Revisits the Time President Obama Wanted to Turn Up to French Montana
While mothership pilot George Clinton once threatened to paint the White House black, in 2008 it actually happened—ushering in an era of unprecedented pride, pigment and progress. We swag surfed on the White House lawn, Obama threw black ass house parties, and melanin magic became synonymous with 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Fast forward to 2019, and…
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Auntie Maxine Bids Impeachment Efforts Adieu, Shifts Priority to 'Getting That Report'
I’d be lying if I said I saw this coming, but now Auntie Maxine herself says not to hold your breath waiting for an impeachment of alleged president Donald Trump. “[Impeachment has] never been discussed as a strategy for this caucus. It’s only a few of us,” she told Politico. “I think we do nothing…
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Gabrielle Union, Don Cheadle Among Celebs Protesting Anti-Abortion Bill in Georgia, Threaten Boycott
Over the past decade, Georgia has become one of the most lucrative filming locations in the entire world, generating billions of dollars for the entertainment industry with its enticing film incentive program—which awards up to 30 percent of production costs back in transferable tax credits, which can then be sold on the free market. But…
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Laura Ingraham Guest Believes Trans People Will 'Destroy' Gender Norms to Create 'New Species' That's 'Part Machine'
I had to read my own headline twice because the shit still makes no damn sense. But I guess we’ll try to make two plus two equal five together because apparently humanity is an endangered species. Dr. Paul Nathanson is a gender relations professor and the author of books such as Spreading Misandry: The Teaching…
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White News Anchors Embarrass Mankind with Their Unseasoned Attempt at Black Slang
One of the cardinal sins of adulthood is embarrassing your kids—especially if they’re teenagers. As an unruly adolescent myself in a past life, I have vivid memories of my mother calling me “Cooch” in front of my friends, or my Dad’s bizarre obsession with 2Pac’s “How Do U Want It” (“That song is bad!” he…
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Charlottesville, Va., Attacker Pleads Guilty to 29 Federal Hate Crimes
On August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his car into a crowd that was peacefully protesting the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., injuring 28 people and killing 32-year-old activist Heather Heyer. Nearly two years later, Fields, the white supremacist who was convicted of murder in that deadly car attack on…
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Prominent South Carolina Democrats Co-Sign Kamala Harris
Five distinguished South Carolina Democrats, including one of its longest-serving black lawmakers, are throwing their support behind the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris—providing an early push to the former state attorney general in a critical early-voting state. According to the Associated Press, the list includes a trio of black legislators: State Sen. Darrell Jackson…
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Osundairo Brothers Planned to Admit Jussie Smollett's Alleged Homophobic Attack Was Staged—Until They Didn't
The Osundairo Brothers—who reportedly don’t own shirts and are best known as the guys caught on tape purchasing ski masks and MAGA hats prior to Jussie Smollett’s alleged homophobic assault—want you to know that their new name is Bennett, cause they ain’t in it. In the aftermath of the alleged homophobic assault that was—or wasn’t—the…
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Facebook Waves the Mutumbo Finger at White Nationalists, Offers Judgment-Free Rehabilitation in Exchange
One week after the house that Mark Zuckerberg built revealed its plans to address the discriminatory nature in which it excludes minorities and other protected groups from accessing housing, employment, and credit advertisements comes the news that white supremacist rhetoric is no longer welcome on its platform—allegedly. According to the Washington Post, Facebook will banish…
