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Nicki Minaj’s Brother Arrested and Charged With Raping a 12-Year-Old Girl
Back in August, Nicki Minaj was celebrating her brother Jelani Maraj’s nuptials to his longtime girlfriend on Instagram, but now Maraj is back in the limelight, having been accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. According to US Weekly, Maraj was arrested Tuesday in Nassau County on Long Island, N.Y., and charged with first-degree rape and…
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No Way Out: The White House Looks at Link Between Incarceration and Poverty
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked what was the price of justice during a White House Convening on Incarceration and Poverty on Thursday. Right now, more than 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S., a 61 percent increase since 1990, according to a new report released by the Council of Economic Advisers that found…
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The Wiz Live! Drew In Millions of Viewers, Beating Out NBC’s Last Live Musical, Peter Pan
The Wiz Live! eased itself on down the road Thursday night, drawing in 11.1 million viewers in the process, TVLine reports, and doing NBC a solid by beating out the last live musical the network aired a year ago: Peter Pan Live! It didn’t beat out NBC’s highest-rated live musical, The Sound of Music Live!,…
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7 Reasons Why The Wiz Live! Was #BlackExcellence
You can put your Twitter fingers away. With captivating performances, updated dialogue and visually stunning costumes and set decorations, The Wiz Live! was a resounding hit. Anticipatory buzz grew louder and louder over the past few days leading up to last night’s debut of The Wiz Live! on NBC. Some people were excited (and nervous) about the chance to…
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I Am an Adult and I Hate Sharing. So What?
Let’s just cut to the chase: I hate sharing. Yes, everything I needed to learn in life I absolutely learned in kindergarten. And yes, sharing is at the top of that list. Despite this lifelong lesson, I still hate sharing. But I probably need to put that in context and add some caveats. See, I…
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Minneapolis Police Dismantling of Protest Camp Sparks Rally at City Hall
About 300 protesters in Minneapolis rallied yesterday at City Hall after authorities dismantled their police-precinct encampment, the Star Tribune reports. Following the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark, a group of protesters set up a vigil outside the 4th Precinct headquarters in north Minneapolis. They vowed to remain there until authorities released surveillance video of…
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Amber Rose Poses as Heroic Feminists in a New Photo Shoot
Amber Rose did such a good job in this parody video slamming the patriarchal messages inherent in the idea of the “walk of shame.” She also hosted a “slut walk” in Los Angeles to stop the slut-shaming that goes on way too often in pop culture. That’s why it’s really appropriate that she was tapped…
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Christina Milian Defends Her Daughter’s ‘Grown’ Afro-Twist Hairstyle
When people got on Beyoncé for supposedly not doing Blue Ivy’s hair—as those lowly hair critics put it—Queen Bey paid them no dust. A twist-out is a hairstyle, even if if doesn’t appear that way to some—but I digress. Christina Milian is a better woman than Beyoncé because she responded to some folk on social media who…
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Do Mormon Genealogy Records Include Black People?
I am trying to learn more about my family’s history. My mother, Ora Lean Johnson, is from Alexandria or Shreveport, La. However, she is ill and unable to provide me with any information. My father is Emanuel Christopher Bass Sr. of West Virginia, and as far as I know, he is still living. He was…
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American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson Coming to Cable in 2016
“I’m not black. I’m O.J.” This just in: The cable station FX will premiere American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson on Feb. 2, 2016. Executive-produced by Ryan Murphy, the 10-episode installment of the new limited series will relive a story that captivated Americans. The O.J. Simpson case in 1995 was indeed reality television,…
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