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Mo’Nique Wants Black People to Boycott Netflix. Will You Join Her?
Actress and comedian Mo’Nique has never been one to hold her tongue when it comes to addressing what happens behind closed doors in Hollywood. She is currently fed up with the streaming service Netflix, and she is asking the black community to join her in a boycott of the company. Mo is accusing Netflix of…
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More Donald Trump Dirty Laundry: This Time He Cracked Jokes About Melania’s Pregnancy Weight: Report
When former model Melania Trump was five months pregnant with her first child, her husband, Donald Trump, went on Howard Stern’s radio show and said he would give her a couple of days to a week to regain her model figure after giving birth. The Washington Post dug up this gem in light of all…
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Trap Kitchen: Street Smarts Keep One of Los Angeles’ Most Popular Underground Restaurants Thriving
What happens when you decide to stop trapping in the streets and start trapping in the kitchen instead? From illegal drugs to an underground restaurant, Los Angeles’ Trap Kitchen is an example of how street smarts built a business from the ground up.
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Racist White Girl’s Mother Says She Deserved to Get Kicked Out of School
The mother of the 19-year-old former University of Alabama student and Alpha Phi sorority sister who was expelled from both organizations after Instagram videos of her repeatedly, intentionally and resolutely using the word “nigger” surfaced online says that her daughter deserved what she got. Jill Barbera (unlike her daughter, her last name has an extra…
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LeBron James and Steph Curry Are the Team Captains for NBA All-Star 2018 and They Get to Build Their Dream Teams
The votes have been counted and the results are in. On Thursday evening, the NBA revealed the team captains and the starting roster pools for both the Eastern and Western conferences for the 2018 All-Star Game, which will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 18, at 8 p.m. EST. For the second year…
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Donald Trump Reportedly Likes to Get Spanked
We may as well brace ourselves. We are going to keep getting little details about Donald Trump’s sexual predilections every single day until all the pre-nondisclosure-agreement Stormy Daniels interviews and “candid” recollections about the president have been milked dry. Prepare yourselves. This is going to be a gross and bumpy ride. We’ve already heard that…
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Cardi B Just Accomplished Something Not Even Beyoncé Has Done
Cardi B accomplished something this week that no other woman—not even Beyoncé—has ever done: She currently has five hits in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at once. As Billboard notes, Cardi B is only the third artist to accomplish this; both Drake and Kendrick Lamar have done it before. What…
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Donald Trump Told a Woman He Was Having Sex With That She Was Just Like His Daughter: Report
When the news of Donald Trump’s $130,000 payoff to Stormy Daniels broke on Friday, we knew that it wouldn’t be long before salacious details about their affair came out. You don’t pay someone that much money to keep them quiet about a one-time encounter. That’s some “You know some stuff about me, so please keep…
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The Myth of Closure in Relationships
In our last #TheRootAfterDark Twitter chat, we discussed the differences between “baggage” and “experience” and how to tell the difference between the two. A recurring theme among the people who admitted to still carrying around baggage from previous relationships was the idea that most of them were still looking for “closure.” Closure is a funny…
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#NetNeutrality: States, Public-Interest Groups File Lawsuits to Stop the FCC From Killing the Open Internet
As Democrats in the Senate work to push forward a resolution that would stop the Federal Communications Commission from killing net neutrality and ending the open and free internet for everyone, multiple lawsuits were filed Tuesday by different groups with that same goal in mind. A group of attorneys general from 21 states and the…
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