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Kevin Hart Won’t Get Redemption Until He Atones
Kevin Hart fucked up, and he is continuing to fuck up even as I write this. As my colleague Issac Bailey pointed out: He messed up by refusing to do what was easy and right. As others have noted, he should have simply apologized again for the old tweets because a new, larger audience would…
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Cyntoia Brown Will Have to Serve 51 Years Before She’s Eligible For Release, Tennessee Supreme Court Rules [Corrected]
From the beginning, Cyntoia Brown’s life story has been heartbreaking. She was put up for adoption at the age of 2, and her life after that was a traumatic spiral of verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and substance abuse. At the age of 16, she was sold as a sex-slave to a 43-year-old Nashville…
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Kevin Hart Wants You to Stop Being ‘Negative’ About His Homophobic Tweets, But He’s Deleting Some of Them Anyway
After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that comedian Kevin Hart would be hosting the 91st Oscars ceremony on Feb. 24, it was only a matter of time before Twitter detectives dug through his tweets to find something offensive. What they came up with were a bunch of homophobic jokes Hart has…
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Top Aide to Sen. Kamala Harris Resigns After Reports of Settlement in Gender Harassment and Discrimination Case
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) accepted the resignation of one of her top aides Wednesday after it was revealed the California Department of Justice paid $400,000 to his former executive assistant to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit on his behalf last year. Larry Wallace was a senior advisor in Harris’ Sacramento, Calif., office. Prior…
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Cardi B Just Shared a Picture of Baby Kulture. She’s Gorgeous
You guys! On the heels of announcing her separation from husband Offset, Cardi has shocked the internet by posting a photo of her daughter Kulture. Kulture is gorgeous! Cardi posted the little beauty’s picture with the caption “My heart.” Does separating from Offset have anything to do with the big photographic reveal? The couple had…
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Surviving R. Kelly Screening Evacuated Following Phoned in Gun Threat
Guests gathered at NeueHouse Madison Square in New York Tuesday night for a screening of the upcoming Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly were evacuated when a gun threat against the venue was reportedly phoned in. #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, writer and cultural critic Jamilah Lemieux, journalist Kierna Mayo, author and social worker Feminista Jones, a…
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In Whitest Tweet Ever, PETA Compares ‘Anti-Animal’ Language to Racism
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants you to know that if you say things like “Don’t beat a dead horse,” it’s the exact same thing as calling a black person the n-word. In the whitest, dumbest, most clueless and socially irresponsible tweet ever, PETA likened what they call “speciesism” or “anti-animal” language to…
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Fred Hampton’s Death Is Just One Example of the Government’s Covert Disruption of Black Lives
In the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago police—acting at the behest of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation—burst into headquarters of the Chicago Black Panther Party and rained a hail of gunfire. When they were done, chapter founder and chairman Fred Hampton, 21, and member Mark…
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Black Pastor Encourages Those in Need to Take From the Collection Baskets Because the ‘Lord Told Him To’
The relationship between black people and the black church is long, storied and full of the type of dysfunction usually reserved for immediate family. We were fed Christianity during the time of slavery, and since then the church has been both a beacon of hope and an institution of oppression for black people. Still, every…
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Secret Santa Spends $29,000 to Pay Off Every Single Layaway Account at a Pennsylvania Walmart
Christmas is just 22 days away, and undoubtedly a good number of people have been rushing around, overextending their budgets and trying to figure out how to make a dollar out of 15 cents as they put together a happy Christmas for the family and friends. For some people, the work to build up a…
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