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Watch: Kevin Hart and Drake Act Up at All-Star Celebrity Basketball Game
Some wisenhammer got the bright idea to bring back rapper Drake’s first on-screen character, Jimmy Brooks, from Degrassi: The Next Generation, with a clip featuring Kevin Hart’s head superimposed onto another character. The 15-second short, in which Drake’s character, Jimmy (before his character became paralyzed), took on a bully on a basketball court, was a…
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Hampton Becomes 1st HBCU to Play Division I Lacrosse
On Saturday the Hampton University Pirates will make history as the first HBCU to compete in Division I lacrosse. They will face the Roberts Wesleyan College Redhawks at 12:30 p.m. EST. As part of Black History Month, ESPN’s SportsCenter on the Road will originate from Hampton’s campus from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday and provide pregame coverage, but…
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Woman Travels From Nigeria to Brooklyn, NY, to Deliver Triplets
A Nigerian woman traveled all the way to Brooklyn, N.Y., to deliver her healthy triplets Thursday morning, reports the New York Daily News. Temitope Alao had been trying to conceive for about six years, and at about eight months into her pregnancy, she gave birth to two boys and a bouncing baby girl. The 34-year-old welcomed…
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Commercial Test for Zika Virus Could Be Available in Weeks
The World Health Organization announced Friday that a commercial test for the rapidly spreading Zika virus could be available in weeks. Heretofore, only the Centers for Disease Control and a few health departments in various states were able to definitively diagnose the enigmatic virus spread by mosquitoes and via bodily fluids through sex. “Although it…
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They Were Young, Active and Suffering From Heart Failure
As twins, Kimberly Ketter and Shaun Rivers have been through just about everything together: first day of school, learning to drive, graduation. But there was one moment that altered the lives of the sisters from Richmond, Va. Ketter first suspected something was wrong in May 2009 when a routine climb up the stairs caused her…
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Here’s the Problem With That Steve Harvey Video That Shames Sisters for Wanting Attractive Men
There’s a video clip from Steve Harvey’s talk show making the rounds on Facebook. It’s being used as Exhibit Z—because A through Y have already been done—about why so many women, black women in particular, are single. Sigh. Two sisters are sent on a double date with two nice, but somewhat dowdy-looking, men. Given the…
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Watch: The Ellen DeGeneres Show Donates Tons of Resources to Detroit Public School in Need
There’s a public school in Detroit that is falling apart, literally, and Ellen DeGeneres just threw a bunch of money and attention at the problem, the Detroit Free Press reports. According to a clip from the show, the Spain Elementary-Middle School is chock-full of students from working-class families that are “poor or homeless,” DeGeneres explained.…
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Black Twitter Creates #CosmoHeadlines After Magazine Says Hair Parts Are a New Trend
There’s no reason to get mad, upset, frustrated or insulted or write 1,000-word think pieces explaining cultural appropriation. Nope, black Twitter went through all of those stages before when mainstream outlets said that Timbs, cornrows, collard greens and full lips were “new” trends. Nope, now black Twitter just relies on snark, humor and sarcasm to…
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Lamar Odom Makes His 1st Public Appearance at Kanye’s Fashion Show
Lamar Odom walked into Kanye West’s fashion show at Madison Square Garden in New York City Thursday night, seemingly in great shape. The former NBA forward has come a long way since being found unconscious at a Las Vegas brothel in October because of an overdose and reportedly suffering several strokes and kidney failure. According…
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Why Does My Lebanese Dad Have African DNA, When I Don’t?
Dear Professor Gates: I have done an autosomal DNA test for most of my relatives and ancestors, including my father. He is of Lebanese origin (born in 1959 in a village near Kartaba, also spelled Qartaba), but I discovered that his ancestry contains 4 percent Central-East African. Both my brothers inherited 2 percent African DNA. However,…
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