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Why I Had to Stop Seeing Mr. Big After Our 5-Day Date
I wrestled with this experience for weeks. I had to sit with it, talk with Mr. Big and ask questions, sit with it again, meditate, journal and talk to my confidante—all to process what turned out to be a very eye-opening and enlightening experience in more ways than one. In “regular” dating, you usually go…
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From White Privilege to White Tears: #PermitPatty Sobs That She Really Didn’t Mean for Police to Come
The same white woman who used her white-woman privilege first to bully an 8-year-old black girl who was selling water and then to call the police on said little black girl for being noncompliant is now pouring out her white-woman tears in the aftermath of the incident and wants everyone to feel sorry for her.…
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Is Michael Cohen About to Flip on Trump?
With all the theatrics surrounding Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order to end family separations at the border, you may have missed out on a pretty big news nugget earlier Wednesday. Michael Cohen—Trump’s personal attorney and longtime confidant who has become one of the bigger fish caught in the Robert Mueller investigation web—submitted a…
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#Flint: Lead Levels Remain Unchanged; Michigan Hands Water-Testing Over to the City
As of Wednesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have gone 1,518 days without a clean and stable water system in their city. The latest preliminary testing results show that the lead levels in the water have remained unchanged from the last six months of 2017, and the state has given notice that it is handing…
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Your President Is a Stunt Queen Who Manufactures Drama
I hate this administration. I hate this Congress, including some of your faves that y’all lift up like they’re the way and the light, when really, they are part of the same evil machine that has put us in the position we are in right now. I hate that we continue to live by outdated…
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I Will Always Be Here for People Cussing Out Donald Trump in Public Spaces
This is dedicated to my real ones. You know how there is that one person everyone in your hood hates, and so you all agree that when you see that person, it’s “on sight,” as we say? For the white people, “on sight” means that as soon as you see the person, it’s going down—whatever…
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Zola’s Epic and Viral Twitter Tale of Strippers and Pimps in Florida Is Finally Headed to the Big Screen
There are certain moments in Black Twitter history that you had to be there for in order to understand their cultural significance. Among those are the infamous “Meet Me in Temecula” fight that never happened, #HasJustineLandedYet, the revelation that Mojizel allegedly had a daughter he was hiding/not taking care of, and the infamous Zola story.…
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Police: Black Woman Who Said ‘I Hate White People’ Before Attacking Passengers on Bus Charged With Hate Crime
A black woman in Maryland is facing hate crime charges after police say she declared her hate for “white people” before attacking two white passengers on board a moving bus in Gaithersburg. According to WJLA-TV, 24-year-old Kimberly Jordan of Silver Spring, Md., was on a Ride On bus around 9 p.m. Monday when she allegedly…
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Jay-Z Is Now President of Puma’s Basketball Operations
If nothing else, we all know that Beyoncé and Jay-Z are about their money. Every move they make in business is calculated, and this latest one from Jigga is no exception. As global shoe and sportswear company Puma looks to get back in the basketball game, it has tapped Jay-Z to be the president of…
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Twitter Faves Desus Nice and the Kid Mero Headed to Showtime for Weekly Late-Night Talk Show
Are you ready, #BodegaHive? Showtime has never had a late-night talk show, but that is all about to change. The cable network has managed to woo our favorite Bodega Boys, Desus and Mero, away from Viceland—where, for the last two years, they have hosted Desus & Mero in the 11 p.m. slot Monday-Thursday. Showtime announced…
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