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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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  • Holiday Traditions Around the World: How We Celebrate the Season

    Maybe it’s because Madison Avenue is in New York City, which, theoretically at least, is a place where December bristles with the chilly arrival of winter, and thus images of Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer have dominated our vision of the Christmas holiday. Yet Christmas is celebrated all over the world, though…

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  • Fetty Wap Is Reportedly in a Public Spat With a Woman Who Says She’s Carrying His Child

    Fetty Wap is supposedly going through it with a woman who says she’s carrying his child. Her name is Masika, she’s appeared on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood and she posted a photo of her pregnant belly on Instagram. Masika went on a radio show recently and announced that she was six months along and…

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  • Why Mack Wilds Felt the Need to Highlight His Love for ‘Dark-Skinned Girls’

    Tristan “Mack” Wilds was on The Wendy Williams Show last week promoting his upcoming VH1 movie, The Breaks. Williams addressed a little bit of gossip and asked whether Wilds was ever in love with R&B singer Sevyn Streeter. A huge picture of Wilds planting a juicy, sexy kiss on Streeter’s cheek appeared behind them. “She’s…

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