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Solange Loses Her Wedding Ring on Mardi Gras Float
Solange Knowles, who has made New Orleans her home for years, lost her wedding ring Friday while she participated in weekend Mardi Gras festivities, reports People Style Watch. Seen below in this video before she hopped aboard the stiletto-shaped float hosted by Krewe of Muses, Solange, 29, says she’s “Bout to be hype!” #kreweofmuses here…
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Federal Court Invalidates 2 NC Districts for Racial Gerrymandering
Voter suppression gets a blow as as a federal court panel ruled Friday that two of North Carolina’s congressional districts were racially gerrymandered and must be redrawn, reports the Charlotte Observer. The ruling, handed down by a three-judge panel, has sparked uncertainty about whether the March primary elections can proceed as planned. The order bars…
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Jay Z’s Tidal Donates $1,500,000 to Black Lives Matter
Jay Z’s fledgling music-streaming platform, Tidal, is donating $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and several other local and national social-justice organizations from money raised at an October concert, reports Mic. The announcement was made Friday, the same day Trayvon Martin would have turned 21 years old. The Trayvon Martin Foundation will receive a portion…
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Police Kill Unarmed Black Man in Texas; Say They Mistook Cellphone for Gun
San Antonio police say that they vow to do a thorough investigation into the shooting death of an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by cops, Reuters reports. Police say that Antronie Scott, 36, was spotted early Friday morning by undercover detectives and fatally shot as he exited a vehicle in an apartment…
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HBCU Football Stars Had a Coming-Out Party at Super Bowl I
When the Kansas City Chiefs took the field against the Green Bay Packers nearly a half-century ago in the first Super Bowl, they embodied the most obvious plotline of the game: How would the champions of the upstart American Football League fare against the established titans of the NFL? Less overtly, though, the Chiefs were…
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My Son Is Gone Because Someone Deemed Him a Criminal and Not My Child
My son is gone. It’s been two years since my husband left our home—on Feb. 7, 2014—to pick up our 14-year-old son, Andrew Joseph III, from the state fair, after he was late for curfew. We understood him being late this particular Friday night because Saturday would be Andrew’s confirmation—a Catholic ceremony where he would…
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Before Cam, There Was Clyde, a Model of Sartorial Splendor
Tight. Zebra. Pants. By now you’ve heard of them—laughed at a few memes, or perhaps created a few memes of your own. But whether or not you’re fond of the fitted, ankle-length, zebra-print Versace pants, which Cam Newton placed into infamy, you’ve got to admit that the black-and-gold britches made a lot of noise. And…
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Are Hair Extensions for Girls a Bit Too Much?
I’ve been following the recent outrage on hair blogs about a mother, who shared a video of her 2-year-old daughter, Kailee, getting crochet twists, a “protective style,” which is more or less the latest euphemism for a weave. That statement is likely to get some backlash, so let me explain it up front. The differences…
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Chris Rock: Forget Jennifer Lawrence; Talk to a Black Actress About Hollywood’s Gender Income Gap
Chris Rock is going to bat for black actresses, and he wants to reiterate, as he has time and time again, that they’re at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to which groups have it worst in Hollywood. “I’ve never done a movie, any movie, the silliest movie, where someone, some studio…
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Lupita Nyong’o: I’m Using the Little Weight I Have to Get Diverse Stories Told
Lupita Nyong’o says she’s using the clout she has to be a part of the solution to the whole #OscarsSoWhite diversity issue in Hollywood. “I think what we are asking for is really for more stories to be told—for inclusion in the stories that are told,” Nyong’o explained during an interview with the Today show. “And I…
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