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Teyana Taylor Shows Off Washboard Abs 6 Days After Giving Birth
Teyana Taylor’s labor, and then postpartum, experience has been amazing. First she delivers her firstborn child into the hands of her fiance, NBA player Iman Shumpert, in their bathroom. And then she posts a photo on Instagram six days later, showing off her flat tummy. “Dear Baby Iman…. Thank you for this snap back in…
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Judge Annuls Tasha Smith’s Marriage After Finding That Her Husband Hid Kids, Marriages and Debt
Tasha Smith is probably going to have herself a merry little Christmas. No divorce is easy, regardless of the process, but the actress is probably very happy that a judge recently annulled her marriage on the grounds that her husband is a fraud, TMZ reports. Rory Douglas reportedly had been married five times before marrying…
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Russell Simmons Pours His Heart Out to Kimora About Their Beautiful Blended Family
I’ve long admired Russell Simmons for the way he’s been screaming from the mountaintops for years about how everyone ought to be meditating on a daily basis. He wants everyone—particularly those in his own community, African Americans—to live more consciously, clearly and in the moment. During one of his moments of meditation, he was overcome…
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Who Will Speak for Black Cubans on the Lack of Economic Opportunity?
Havana: If President Barack Obama comes here sometime next year, as he has hinted he will, he’ll be under great pressure to meet with Cubans who are widely seen in anti-Castro circles within the United States as the legitimate voices of dissent inside this communist nation. In fact, Obama has already made such meetings a…
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Ah, Makes Sense Now: Steve Harvey Reportedly Left the Miss Universe Rehearsal Early
The pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together. The first point in this listicle authored by Damon Young, my colleague at The Root, in which he opines about what happened to Steve Harvey the night of the Miss Universe pageant, is starting to seem more and more true: Harvey’s got way too many jobs.…
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Marjorie Harvey Says Her Man Is a Stand-Up Guy in Light of His Mistake
Steve Harvey’s wife, Marjorie, is standing by her man in his time of need. Everybody’s been coming for Harvey’s neck ever since he announced the wrong winner at the 2015 Miss Universe pageant ceremony. She got on Instagram and sang her man’s praises, arguing that her husband is a “stand-up man” and a “true class…
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President Obama and Jerry Seinfeld Are Cruisin’ Down the Street in a Blue Corvette
Jerry Seinfeld scored the guest of a lifetime by getting President Barack Obama to appear in his Web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The premise of the show—which airs on Crackle—is a cool one: Comedians ride around in a vintage car with Seinfeld, talking about any and everything under the sun, and then they…
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Miss Jamaica Made History as the 1st Miss World Contestant to Have Dreadlocks
Before Steve Harvey’s flub ensured that this year’s Miss Universe pageant would go down in the history books, Sanneta Myrie, Miss Jamaica, was already making history. Myrie is the first Miss World pageant contestant to have dreadlocks, Jezebel reports. During an interview with BET, she explained the significance of her hairstyle to her nationality and…
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Poll Finds That Americans Hold Negative Views of American Muslims
President Barack Obama weighed in recently on the storm of controversy surrounding Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s recent proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, calling such ideas a blatant appeal to Americans’ fears. “Blue-collar men have had a lot of trouble in this new economy,” Obama told National Public Radio late…
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2015’s Best of #BlackExcellence
Black excellence goes far beyond a trending social media topic. It is a notion that is indicative of who we are, our fortitude and extraordinary accomplishments. We’ve compiled a list to honor #BlackExcellence in 2015—from Amandla Stenberg schooling the world on cultural appropriation to Todrick Hall, a viral, Internet celebrity-turned-reality-television star. Join us in…
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