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Being Mary Jane Canceled by BET, Will End in 2018 With 2-Hour Series-Finale Movie
BET has decided to bring the drama series Being Mary Jane, which stars actress Gabrielle Union, to an end after four seasons. The series finale will be in the form of a two-hour movie that will air on the network in 2018. Deadline reports that while Union will return for the series finale, no other…
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Eminem Got on National TV and Snatched Donald Trump’s Edges at the BET #HipHopAwards
Eminem proved once again that he is a real MC with real bars when he gave voice to the frustration we are all feeling right now with racist-enabler Donald Trump in the White House. On Tuesday night’s presentation of the BET Hip-Hop Awards, a prerecorded video from Oct. 6 showing Em flowing for four-and-a-half minutes…
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Madea Goes to the White House? Tyler Perry Will Play Gen. Colin Powell in Dick Cheney Movie
I am admittedly not a Tyler Perry fan. I think his movies tend to be overly preachy with a hint of misogynoir added in to make his point. Of course the overly sexual black woman catches HIV after having an affair behind her husband’s back. And let’s not ignore the fact that Perry, a black…
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‘White Lives Matter’ Rally Planned for End of Month in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Organizers from several white nationalist groups have applied for permits to host a “White Lives Matter” event on the Rutherford County Courthouse lawn on Oct. 28 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The National Socialist Movement—a white nationalist group based in Detroit—along with allied groups including the League of the South and the Traditionalist Worker Party, will host…
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Terry Crews Says He Was a Victim of a Hollywood Male Sexual Predator, Tells His Story on Twitter
Terry Crews took to Twitter Tuesday to say that the whole Harvey Weinstein situation is giving him post-traumatic stress disorder. You may be asking yourself why, but in a series of 16 tweets, Crews explains that women are not the only ones who have been sexually harassed by Hollywood’s male honchos; Crews himself was once…
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Is the Adult Guardianship and Probate Court System Being Used to Exploit Elderly People for Profit?
It is a nightmare that many families have faced over the last few years, but one that has gone on mostly without public notice. An elderly parent or loved one is suddenly stripped of his or her rights and forced into a court guardianship program that opens them up to financial exploitation, sometimes siphoning their…
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Texas Tech University Police Officer Shot and Killed; Suspect Now in Custody
A Texas Tech University police officer was shot and killed Monday night at campus police headquarters, causing the Lubbock, Texas, campus to be placed on lockdown for more than an hour. NBC News reports that the incident started after officers responded to a call for a student “welfare check.” When the officers got to the…
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Racist Lime-a-Rita Drinker Gets Tossed Off L Subway Train by Other Passengers for Repeatedly Shouting the N-Word
In today’s “That’s What Your Ass Gets” news, a white man claiming to be a lawyer who graduated from the New York University School of Law found himself ejected by his fellow passengers after he went on a racist tirade on a New York City subway train over the weekend, and the incident was caught…
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Joe Arpaio’s Infamous and Inhumane Tent City Jail Officially Shut Down
In 1993, now-former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio opened his infamous Tent City outdoor jail, supposedly as an answer to the problem of overcrowding in Phoenix’s jails. Tent City was a source of controversy for the entirety of its existence, and this weekend, it finally closed for good, just 10 months shy of its…
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Who Gon’ Check Me, Boo? Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins Says He Will Continue to Protest Even if Team Owner Forbids It
The vice president of the United States wasted taxpayer dollars Sunday so he could stage his own mini protest against NFL players who exercised their constitutional right to peaceful protest by kneeling during the national anthem, and according to the current president, the vice president acted at his request. NFL owners and coaches are doing…
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