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BIE, Felicia: Fighting for Justice and Our Basic Human Rights Isn’t Extremism
They are trying to turn black people into the bogeyman. They want everyone else in America to see us as a threat so that when we are killed with impunity, no one bats an eyelash. This is already happening anyway. In a country that was founded on the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit…
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FEMA Officials Say It’s Not Their Job to Distribute Food and Water to Hurricane Victims in Puerto Rico: Report
Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Maria brought devastation to the island of Puerto Rico, people in the town of Aibonito still have not received any food or water from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The reason? FEMA said it’s not their job to distribute food and water to the hurricane victims. Aibonito is located about…
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Plot Twist: Jay-Z Reportedly Looking to Buy Harvey Weinstein’s Interest in the Weinstein Co.
As the ashes continue to fall from the gigantic brushfire that is Harvey Weinstein’s career and alleged history as a sexual predator and serial harasser in Hollywood, some news comes along that provides something of a silver lining to the bullshit: Jay-Z is apparently looking to buy Weinstein’s interest in the company that bears Weinstein’s…
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Being Mary Jane Canceled by BET, Will End in 2018 With 2-Hour Series-Finale Movie
BET has decided to bring the drama series Being Mary Jane, which stars actress Gabrielle Union, to an end after four seasons. The series finale will be in the form of a two-hour movie that will air on the network in 2018. Deadline reports that while Union will return for the series finale, no other…
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Are We Really Interested in a Sequel to Creed That Doesn’t Involve Ryan Coogler?
On Instagram Tuesday, Sylvester Stallone confirmed that he will be directing and producing Creed 2, the sequel to the 2015 Ryan Coogler hit Creed, in which Stallone co-starred with actor Michael B. Jordan. Are we really interested in a sequel to Creed that doesn’t involve Ryan Coogler? Coogler and Jordan created black-boy magic on the…
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Eminem Got on National TV and Snatched Donald Trump’s Edges at the BET #HipHopAwards
Eminem proved once again that he is a real MC with real bars when he gave voice to the frustration we are all feeling right now with racist-enabler Donald Trump in the White House. On Tuesday night’s presentation of the BET Hip-Hop Awards, a prerecorded video from Oct. 6 showing Em flowing for four-and-a-half minutes…
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Madea Goes to the White House? Tyler Perry Will Play Gen. Colin Powell in Dick Cheney Movie
I am admittedly not a Tyler Perry fan. I think his movies tend to be overly preachy with a hint of misogynoir added in to make his point. Of course the overly sexual black woman catches HIV after having an affair behind her husband’s back. And let’s not ignore the fact that Perry, a black…
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‘White Lives Matter’ Rally Planned for End of Month in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Organizers from several white nationalist groups have applied for permits to host a “White Lives Matter” event on the Rutherford County Courthouse lawn on Oct. 28 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The National Socialist Movement—a white nationalist group based in Detroit—along with allied groups including the League of the South and the Traditionalist Worker Party, will host…
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Terry Crews Says He Was a Victim of a Hollywood Male Sexual Predator, Tells His Story on Twitter
Terry Crews took to Twitter Tuesday to say that the whole Harvey Weinstein situation is giving him post-traumatic stress disorder. You may be asking yourself why, but in a series of 16 tweets, Crews explains that women are not the only ones who have been sexually harassed by Hollywood’s male honchos; Crews himself was once…
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Is the Adult Guardianship and Probate Court System Being Used to Exploit Elderly People for Profit?
It is a nightmare that many families have faced over the last few years, but one that has gone on mostly without public notice. An elderly parent or loved one is suddenly stripped of his or her rights and forced into a court guardianship program that opens them up to financial exploitation, sometimes siphoning their…
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