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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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Kevin Hart’s Hyundai Commercial Wins USA Today’s Annual Poll of Best Super Bowl Ad
Cam Newton—black America’s favorite quarterback at the moment—didn’t win Super Bowl 50, but Beyoncé won the Super Bowl halftime performance, and Kevin Hart won a Super Bowl commercial contest. Hart’s Hyundai commercial, in which he plays an overly protective dad who sneaks out on his daughter’s date, won USA Today’s annual poll of the best…
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Black Lives Matter Activists Got Beyoncé’s Dancers to Hold Up ‘Justice’ Sign They Snuck Into Super Bowl
Here’s the story of how a couple of Black Lives Matter activists got Beyoncé’s dancers to hold up a “Justice 4 Mario Woods” sign after her Super Bowl halftime performance. Mario Woods was a 26-year-old man who was shot more than a dozen times by San Francisco police, a killing that many Black Lives Matter…
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Rihanna Is 1st and Only Artist to Surpass RIAA’s 100 Million Cumulative Singles Threshold
I was worried that Beyoncé’s comeback would overshadow Rihanna’s new album, Anti, and the Anti World Tour. Beyoncé’s “Formation” single, released on Saturday, made a heck of an impact, but Rihanna has celebrating of her own to do. Back in July, the Recording Industry Association of America announced that Rihanna was the first and only…
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