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Solange Joins Angela Davis, Alice Walker for ‘Peace Ball’ During Trump Inauguration Week
Solange is slated to perform at Busboys and Poets’ Peace Ball, an “alternative celebration“ to Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities in Washington, D.C. The 2017 Peace Ball: Voices of Hope and Resistance will take place Jan. 19 at the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture. It’s organized by Busboys and Poets, a…
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Dylann Roof Wears Racist Symbols on Shoes in Court
Dylann Roof, who was convicted in December of killing nine black parishioners in Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, has been wearing shoes adorned with racist symbols to court as recently as Monday, the Daily Beast reports. Roof, who is representing himself in the murder trial and who testified that he has…
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Mexico’s Former President to Trump: ‘I’m Not Paying for That F–king Wall’
Businessman Vicente Fox Quesada, former president of Mexico, took to Twitter to tell President-elect Donald Trump to f—k his couch and his wall. Trump spent the last year and a half saying that he was going to build a wall—a yuge wall—and Mexico was going to pay for it. Well, there’s a little caveat. Now…
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Check Out Black Brilliance 360, a Web Series Delivering Real Talk by and for Black Men
Negative images of black men are easy enough to find in American culture, the kinds of images that label them as “thugs” or criminals. But a new web series called black brilliance 360, which launched this week, is out to flip the narrative on who black men are and what they’re really about. Produced by…
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Iconic Hollywood Sign Defaced to Read ‘Hollyweed’
A creative prankster changed the iconic ”Hollywood” sign over Los Angeles by manipulating it to read “Hollyweed,” CNN reports. The vandal used tarps to change the O’s in the sign to E’s. He (police think the perpetrator is probably a man) was caught on security-camera footage between midnight and 2 a.m. local time Sunday, but…
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Watch: CNN’s Don Lemon Gets Lit Off Tequila on Air
They say “loose lips sink ships” and “in vino veritas.” Well, CNN anchor Don Lemon’s veritas got a bit personal after too much vino (or tequila shots, in this case). Perhaps it was the weight of the year, perhaps it was because he and co-anchor Brooke Baldwin were in New Orleans. Whatever the case, Lemon…
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President Obama Outlines His Greatest Hits on Twitter
President Barack Obama and his family return to White House from their annual Hawaiian vacation today, but the president still managed to hit his Twitter account on the first day of the New Year. As with the rest of us, the president may realize that he is really looking at his last days in office. For…
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Watch: Condola Rashad Gets Engaged on NYE
Condola Rashad, the daughter of our favorite TV mom, Phylicia Rashad, and TV analyst Ahmad Rashad, has seen her star rise in the last few years, putting in serious work in the acting arena. Now it looks as if she is ready to embark on a new part of her life. Sebastian!!!!!!!!!!!The surprise!! The shock! My…
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Mariah Carey’s NYE Performance Prompts Last Twitter Dragging of 2016
Whatever the future of Twitter, it will be remembered fondly for giving us the guffaws of life. And so it was when the folk from all around the world weighed in on singer Mariah Carey’s performance on ABC’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Decked out in a glittery leotard and forever-inch heels, Carey looked great but…
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Colin Kaepernick Voted Most Courageous Player by 49ers
San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who defied professional football’s usual fear of confronting racial unrest, was voted the 49ers’ most courageous and inspirational player by his teammates, the NFL club announced Friday, the New York Daily News reports. Kaepernick, who knelt during the national anthem in protest against police brutality this season, was…
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