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  • Oscar Nominee Quvenzhané Wallis Will Join the Cast of Black-ish Later This Season

    Quvenzhané Wallis is set to make her television debut later this season when she joins the cast of Black-ish in a recurring role beginning in January 2019. Deadline reports that Quvenzhané will play the role of Kyra, Dre’s younger cousin who comes to stay with the family for a while when her mother is unable…

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  • Outkast’s Stankonia Is Still a Banger With No Skips 18 Years Later

    While everyone is dressing up, passing out candy, and taking their children out trick-or-treating in celebration of Halloween, there is another holiday that we cannot neglect to mention. Today is the 18th anniversary of the release of Outkast’s fourth studio album, Stankonia. For the uninitiated, Stankonia is the album that gave us such hits as…

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  • Don Lemon: White Men Are the Biggest Terror Threat in This Country

    Don Lemon is fed up. Who knew a year ago that CNN’s Don Lemon would turn out to be the most outspoken and militant black man in television news media? Continuing his trend of calling it like he sees it, Lemon went on a tear during a segment on Chris Cuomo’s show Monday night and…

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  • Kanye Claims He Is Back From the Sunken Place … Again

    Kanye West (or someone tweeting from Kanye West’s account) took to Twitter this afternoon to announce that he is stepping back from talking about politics and will now be completely focused on being creative—something everyone has been urging him to do for a while now, but he just wouldn’t listen. Ye (or someone using his…

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  • We’re Tired of Her Too: Tyler Perry Says He’s Bidding Madea Farewell in 2019 

    There’s something that happens when a person creates a character that they become well-known for, especially when that character shows up in a lot of their work. People fall in love with the character. They relate to the character for whatever reason. They want to see as much of the character as possible, even when…

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  • Mother Mae I? Lynn Whitfield on Being the Mother You Love to Hate

    There are currently two versions of the same meme floating around Twitter, and they both involve Lynn Whitfield and the way she is always playing those mothers we love to hate in movies and TV shows. They are funny because they are close to the truth. Throughout her career, Whitfield has played some of everybody’s…

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  • #NetNeutrality: Justice Department Sticks a Pin in Its Battle With California for Now

    The United States Department of Justice and the state of California have come to a deal of sorts in their battle over the rules of net neutrality—at least for now. The state of California said Friday it would not enforce what has become labeled the nation’s strictest state-level net neutrality law when it goes into…

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  • Kentucky Kroger Shooting Being Investigated as a Hate Crime

    Before Gregory Alan Bush opened fire at a Kroger supermarket in the Louisville, Ky., suburb of Jeffersontown and killed two black people on Wednesday, he tried unsuccessfully to enter a predominantly black church in the same area, police said. Now as federal investigators prepare to investigate the shooting, both the mayor and the police chief…

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  • #StephonClark: Sacramento DA Promises to Take Her Sweet Time Making a Decision on Police Shooting

    Just days after the Sacramento Police Department alerted the media that their investigation into the officer-involved shooting death of 22-year-old Stephon Clark had been completed and handed off to both the state attorney general and the county district attorney, DA Anne Marie Schubert’s office said in a release that their review of that investigation could…

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  • Drake Breaks the Beatles Record For Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Hits In the Same Year

    In 1964, the Beatles set the record for having the most top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in a single year. They held that record for a solid 54 years until rapper Drake broke it just in time for his 32nd birthday. Billboard reports that Bad Bunny’s “MIA,” on which Drake has a…

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