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Jada Pinkett Smith Responds to How Chris Rock Came for Her at the Oscars
Jada Pinkett Smith was catching a flight out of Los Angeles when she was asked by paparazzi about Chris Rock’s jokes about her at the Academy Awards. Remember, Rock basically said that Pinkett Smith didn’t have a horse in the #OscarsSoWhite race, since she’s a television actress. “Look, that comes with the territory, sweetheart,” Pinkett Smith…
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BET Honors 2016, a Celebration of Black Excellence: Lee Daniels, Patti LaBelle, Eric Holder Jr. and More
On Saturday, some of the biggest names in entertainment, business and politics gathered together in Washington, D.C., at the Warner Theatre to honor black excellence at the BET Honors 2016. The initial taping, which was scheduled in February for Black History Month, was postponed because of weather, but the makeup date was every bit as…
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PTA Queen Beyoncé Reportedly Performed at a Benefit Gala Hosted by Blue Ivy’s Grade School
Most parents who are vying for the “Parent of the Year” award at their kid’s school bake chocolate chip cookies for go-away games, volunteer to be a chaperone on school trips or write a fat check to buy the entire soccer team new jerseys. But not Beyoncé. She steps it up a notch and donates…
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Ebony Celebrates Team Thickums on Its March Cover
March is Women’s History Month, and Ebony magazine is shoring up a specific kind of woman who isn’t celebrated as much: the curvy woman. Women who have been anxiously waiting to wave their Team Thickums ID cards proudly in everyone’s faces. Women who have been dubbed “plus size” by the mainstream. Style blogger Gabi Fresh, R&B…
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Ona Judge Staines: She Challenged George Washington and Won Her Freedom
On May 24, 1796, a runaway-slave advertisement was posted in the Pennsylvania Gazette by the steward at George Washington’s house in Philadelphia. It read: Absconded from the household of the President of the United States, ONEY JUDGE, a light mulatto girl, much freckled, with very black eyes and bushy hair. She is of middle stature, slender,…
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Nancy Reagan Dead at 94
Former first lady Nancy Reagan died today in Bel-Air, Calif., according to reports. She was 94 years old. NBC News reports that the cause of death was congestive heart failure, according to her rep Joanne Drake. “Mrs. Reagan will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, next to her husband,…
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The Somali Child Sex Trafficking Ring That Wasn’t
It turns out that an FBI sting operation implicating a “Muslim Somali gang” that ran a teen-sex ring in at least three states was totally bogus, surely upending the lives of at least two dozen Somali and Ethiopian immigrants in the Minneapolis area. A court opinion (pdf) released last week showed that federal prosecutors in…
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Election 2016 Super Saturday Recap
The 2016 presidential contest chugged along this Saturday with primaries or caucuses in five states. On the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders won caucuses in Kansas and Nebraska, while Hillary Clinton scored a decisive victory in Louisiana, the state with the most delegates up for grabs Saturday, holding on to what the New York Times…
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Gymnast Gabby Douglas Clinches Gold at the American Cup
Gabby Douglas, the reigning Olympic all-around gold medalist, looks poised to make it to the top of the podium come the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. On Saturday the 20-year-old known as “the Flying Squirrel” won the American Cup at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., her first gold since winning the Olympic all-around in London…
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They’ve Done the Time but Are Still Paying for the Crime
Charles McKinney is a convicted felon, and he has horror stories to tell about his quest to find work once he got out of jail. “You drift from job to job so you don’t get the question asked, ‘Have you ever had a felony?’” McKinney says. “Once I came home … instead of being faced…
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