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The CDC Delivers The Final Verdict on Whether or Not to Wash Your Chicken
I grew up in a home with parents who couldn’t cook for shit, so my affinity for food as an adult is tainted by trauma. I remember many a night where my sister and I were presented with either finishing our food or getting the belt, and us willingly taking that ass whooping just so…
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Gabrielle Union, Dwayne Wade Among Celebrities to Cover Funeral Costs for Nigel Shelby
A number of celebrities including Gabrielle Union, Dwayne Wade, Ludacris and Janelle Monáe helped to cover the costs of the funeral for Nigel Shelby, the 15-year-old teenager who died by suicide after anti-LGBTQ bullying. The amount of money that was donated remains undisclosed, but Slutty Vegan restauranteur Pinky Cole and media mogul in the making…
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John Singleton's Family Urges Black Community to Check Blood Pressure as They Battle Over $35 Million Estate
As the world mourns the loss of legendary director John Singleton, his family has begun the process of executing his last will and testament. TMZ reports that Singleton’s will is in possession of his mother, Shelia Ward, and that it will soon be filed with the probate court. Reportedly, Shelia handled her son’s business affairs,…
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Hip-Hop Legend Bushwick Bill Reveals Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis
One of the founding members of legendary rap group Geto Boys has announced he’s battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer. In an interview with TMZ, Bushwick Bill made the revelation that he was diagnosed in February and is currently undergoing intensive chemotherapy treatments. “We see a mass on your pancreas and we can’t understand it,” the…
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Ex-Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger's Frantic 911 Call Released: 'I'm Going to Lose My Job'
We’ve wondered for months what Amber Guyger—the former Dallas police officer who shot and killed 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment—was thinking in the immediate aftermath of Jean’s murder and now we finally have an answer. WFAA-TV has obtained a copy of Guyger’s five-minute 911 call to dispatchers and it’s just as unsettling as…
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Uber Apologizes—And Offers an Explanation For—Its Insanely Racist Tweet on Twitter
It seems like every time I turn around, Uber is in the news for all the wrong reasons. There’s the resignation of their head of HR over how discrimination complaints were being mishandled, various assault accusations, that whole #DeleteUber fiasco, and a bunch of other shit I don’t have the time to point out. Yet…
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For Black Drivers, Traffic Stops Can Be a Matter of Life or Death. Can the 'Not Reaching' Pouch Make Them Safer?
As a black person in America, we’ve all been there. The anxiety in our stomach as we pull our car off the road, watching police sirens dance in our rear view mirror. The despair of not knowing how the forthcoming chain of events will unravel. The uncertainty of whether or not we’ll live to see…
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White Supremacists Descend Upon Book Store, Chant 'This Land is Our Land'
An unseasoned collection of white nationalists who apparently are fed up with all this “inclusion and diversity” nonsense had some things to get off their chest this weekend during a book event in Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reports that card-carrying members of the MAGA mafia descended upon bookstore Politics and Prose to disrupt a…
