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Yvonne Staples of the Staple Singers Dead at 80
Yvonne Staples, who served both as a background vocalist and as the business manager for her family’s musical group the Staple Singers, died Tuesday of colon cancer at her home in Chicago. She was 80 years old. Her death was confirmed to the New York Times by family friend Bill Carpenter. The Staple Singers were…
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Cardi B Addresses the Naysayers Who Doubt Her Ability to Have a Baby and a Career
Cardi B dropped her debut album, Invasion of Privacy, on Friday, and it is already certified gold. She was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live the next night and revealed her baby bump during her final performance—much to the delight of her fans everywhere. On Monday night, she was the first ever co-host on…
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Black Lives Matter Issues Official Statement Regarding Fraudulent Social Media Accounts
After it was revealed that the biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook was a fake and not at all related to either the global movement or any of the local chapter organizations, many people who have either supported or given money to BLM organizations have expressed concern about how they can determine whether a…
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OK, Which One of Y’all Black Women Is Out Here Letting Rachel Dolezal Do Your Hair?
Since her name came into the national spotlight, we have all known one thing for sure about Rachel Dolezal: She really, deeply, in her heart of hearts wants to be a black woman. She has gone to great lengths to prove her “blackness” over and over again, all to no avail. No one takes her…
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The Biggest ‘Black Lives Matter’ Page on Facebook Is a Fake: Report
As Facebook continues to be mired in controversy over the way its user data has been used by outside companies and how its platform has repeatedly been infiltrated by Russian troll farms, a new report indicates that the social network’s largest Black Lives Matter page was not affiliated with BLM at all—and was, in fact,…
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Trump Is Big Mad Because the FBI Raided His Attorney’s Office
On Monday, agents from the FBI searched the home, office and New York City hotel room of Michael Cohen—Donald Trump’s longtime attorney—and the president didn’t like it one bit. The Wall Street Journal reports that the records seized from Cohen include those related to payments made to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. The best part? The…
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Atlanta’s New Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Is the Coldest
Keisha Lance Bottoms did not come to play. The Atlanta mayor, who took office in January, came to work Monday and told everyone in her entire Cabinet—which includes 35 top city officials—to turn in their resignations by the end of the day, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And if that wasn’t already cold enough, she…
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#Flint: Michigan Cuts Off Bottled-Water Distribution, Claiming Water Quality Is Restored
One thousand, four hundred and forty-six days. As of Monday, the water crisis in Flint, Mich., has been going on for 1,446 days. There are still areas of the city that are testing high for lead levels, including the city’s public schools, but on Friday, the state decided it no longer needs to provide bottled-water-distribution services…
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NYPD Releases Video, 911 Transcripts Related to Shooting of Saheed Vassell
Video released by the New York City Police Department on Thursday shows 34-year-old Saheed Vassell pointing a metal pipe at several people as if it were a gun on Wednesday before he was shot and killed by police officers in the Crown Heights area of the city’s Brooklyn borough. Police also released the transcripts of…
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Sex Changes Everything
Editor’s note: This is part 5 of a multipart series. Catch up with part 1 , part 2, part 3 and part 4. In my experience, although men say they are OK with a woman being nonmonogamous, in truth they are not. It probably sounds good to them in theory because it means that they…
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