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My Boyfriend and Best Friend Are Texting Each Other All the Time. Should I Be Worried?
I approached my boyfriend about why he’s always texting my best friend. He stated that they are “friends” and they connect well when talking and he or she will hit up each other. I told him that’s my friend, though; why does she always hit him up and barely talk to me now? He said…
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Empire’s Tasha Smith Knows a Thing or Two About Thriving in Hollywood and Surviving Shady Ex-Husbands
Tasha Smith is that rare actress who has been holding it down in the entertainment industry for quite a while now. The NAACP Image Award nominee—perhaps best known for her portrayal of Angela in Tyler Perry’s hit television show For Better or Worse—has been working as an actress for two decades. She has appeared in films—including Daddy’s…
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#PulseShooting: Gunman Reportedly Didn’t Want to Kill Black People: ‘You Guys Suffered Enough’
Patience Carter, 20, one of the survivors of the mass shooting Sunday morning at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., said that the shooter, Omar Mateen, 29, wanted to spare black lives from his violent rampage, CBS News reports. Carter had fled to the bathroom to seek shelter with other club patrons when the gunman entered and…
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Sale of 1st and Only Black-Owned Public TV Station a Wake-Up Call on Media Diversity
The possible loss of Howard University’s PBS affiliate could be a tipping point toward the extinction of black-owned broadcast media, but the Federal Communications Commission has no sense of urgency to fix the problem. That’s not hyperbole. For years, the FCC has watched female and minority ownership of broadcast stations dwindle without much concern for…
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‘3 Black Teens’ Google Search Sparks Outrage
The bias against black children is no more clear than with the Google “three black teenagers” challenge. Type “three black teenagers” into a Google image search, and a bunch of menacing police mug shots turn up. “Three white teenagers” results in smiling young folks who look to be selling Bibles door-to-door. Kabir Alli, an 18-year-old from…
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Bronx, NY, Mom Dies Saving Her 3 Children From Gunman in Park
A mother in New York City’s Bronx borough was shot and killed as she tried to shield her three young children from a gunman in a park outside her apartment building Saturday, reports the New York Daily News. At about 10:15 p.m., Jessica White, 29, saw a man dressed in black open fire in the…
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At Least 49 Killed, 53 Injured, in Mass Shooting at Orlando, Fla., Gay Nightclub
Yet another armed lunatic has opened fire in a public space, killing a slew of people. This time the massacre took place in Florida. Club Pulse, in Orlando, Fla., described on its website as the “hottest gay club in Orlando,” was the site of the gruesome scene early Sunday morning, where police say at least…
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Senator in Hot Water for Praying That Obama’s ‘Days Are Few’
At a major event for conservative Christians on Friday, a Republican senator from Georgia opened his remarks encouraging attendees to pray for our current president—which seems nice enough and, frankly, a very American thing to do. Sen. David Perdue, a freshman senator from Georgia, opened his remarks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to…
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Andre Williams, No. 44 of NY Giants, Tackles Fatherhood and Serves Food for Thought
Andre Williams is a running back for the New York Giants, but none of the hard knocks on the football field could have prepared him for perhaps his most challenging matchup yet: fatherhood. In February, Williams and his wife welcomed their firstborn, Barron Zavier Williams. On the cusp of his third pro-football season, The Root caught…
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‘Kalief’s Law’ Passed in NYC to Honor Teen Tortured on Rikers Island
In what could be viewed as some semblance of justice for Kalief Browder, the young man who became the poster child for everything wrong with New York City’s broken criminal-justice system and its jails, the lower house of the New York Legislature recently passed a bill known as “Kalief’s Law” to ensure that persons arrested…
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