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Meet Eric Porterfield, the GOP Lawmaker Who Believes the LGBTQ Community 'Is a Modern Day Version of the Ku Klux Klan'
I never thought I’d live to see the day where the gay community—a group that has incurred insane amounts of violence and discriminatory behavior—would be compared to the KKK—a hate group that has administered insane amounts of violence and discriminatory behavior. But if America has taught us anything, it’s that where there’s a delusional white…
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T.I., Soulja Boy, and Others Call for Gucci Boycott After Blackface Scandal: 'Apology Not Accepted'
I would imagine this puts trap extraordinaire Gucci Mane in quite the precarious situation, but a host of rappers, creators, and otherwise influential individuals are letting it be none that their allegiances to luxury brand Gucci are a thing of the past. On Thursday, Gucci got dragged to Pluto and back for dropping this: A…
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HBO Announces Leaving Neverland Premiere Dates
On the heels of the deeply disturbing Surviving R. Kelly, HBO’s upcoming documentary Leaving Neverland has the very real potential to dethrone another one of our childhood heroes. Centered around Michael’s alleged sexual abuse of two young boys, 10-year-old James “Jimmy” Safechuck and seven-year-old Wade Robson, the documentary—helmed by Emmy-nominated director Dan Reed—has been dismissed…
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How Much Does 21 Savage Hate ICE? A Lot. Faces Deportation After Arrest
With the announcement that rapper 21 Savage was arrested in Atlanta on Sunday morning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it’s safe to assume that the “Bank Account” spitter isn’t enjoying his Super Bowl Sunday. But while his arrest is concerning, it’s the reasoning that’s the real surprise—as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the alleged…
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Days Before the Super Bowl, Colin Kaepernick Mural in Atlanta is Destroyed
As the shadow of Colin Kaepernick looms over the NFL, it comes as no surprise that in the days leading up to Super Bowl LIII, an iconic mural bearing his likeness is no more. The mural, which was painted on an abandoned building in Atlanta across from celebrated HBCU Morehouse College, was demolished on Friday…
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Meek Mill, Justice League NYC Demand Action as Hundreds of Inmates Go Without Heat, Hot Water at Brooklyn Detention Center
With its spate of polar vortexes and record-breaking temperatures, this winter has been especially torturous. But for inmates housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., these brutal conditions have officially crossed into inhumane. According to the New York Times, despite temperatures as low as 3 degrees Fahrenheit, over 1,600 inmates have spent the…
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Bow Wow Arrested and Charged with Battery Following Domestic Dispute with Ex-Girlfriend Kiyomi Leslie
According to USA Today, rapper Bow Wow has been arrested in Atlanta following a physical confrontation with his on-and-off girlfriend, model Kiyomi Leslie. Police were called to an address in Midtown Atlanta around 4:15 a.m. When they arrived, a woman named Leslie Holden told them she’d been assaulted by Moss. Officers also spoke with Moss,…
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Bill Maher Kicks Off Black History Month with a Popeyes Chicken Joke That Will Probably Make You Throw Hands
Remember that time when “comedian” Bill Maher told Republican Senator Ben Sasse: “Work in the fields? Senator, I’m a house nigger”? And everyone from Chance the Rapper to Ice Cube came for his neck and told him to shut that shit up before a curb stomping ensued? Or the time he disrespected the legacy of recently-deceased…
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Instead of Just Saying 'Wowwwww' Like the Rest of Us Men When We Get Caught Lying, Gov. Ralph Northam Refuses to Resign After Racist Picture Surfaces [Updated]
Remember that whole KKK/Blackface/white people white-peopling yearbook photo thing that Va. Governor Ralph Northam got himself caught up in when he broke the Internet on Friday? Now he’s claiming the picture in question—a yearbook photo in which an upstanding citizen in blackface is flanked by another dressed in his finest Ku Klux Klan garments—isn’t him.…
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Cardi B and Nicki Minaj Join Forces to Create More Opportunities for Women in Music
While female recording artists have always been at the forefront of the music industry, it’s behind the scenes where things gets a bit more scarce. In fact, according to Dr. Stacy Smith’s USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study, only 2 percent of music producers and 3 percent of engineers/mixers within the music industry are women. Thankfully,…
