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BET Documentary Explores the Complexities of Being Black and Gay in the Church
“It’s about the fight for your soul,” says Clay Cane about his new documentary, Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church. “It’s about the struggle to be authentic, to honestly live your own life and have a spiritual space, too.” The battleground in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
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With Lalah Hathaway Live, Singer Boldly Steps Into Her Father’s Legendary Legacy
It is no small thing to invite comparison between your own first live album and one of the greatest live albums ever made—even if the person who made that classic record is your father, and even if you are a Grammy Award-winning phenom in your own right. But such is the bright boldness of Lalah…
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Tiger Woods’ Former Caddy: ‘It Was Like I Was His Slave’
Tiger Woods’ former golfing buddy and caddy Steve Williams is spilling the beans in a new memoir about his relationship with the golf icon, and a lot of it isn’t pretty. In Williams’ Out of the Rough, he said that he was kept in the dark when Woods’ extramarital affair blew up. In excerpts posted on…
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#TLCIsGoingToJailParty Tweets Are Clowning TLC for Their Phantom Kickstarter Album
The plan was that TLC were going to use the money raised from a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new album that they promised to release in October of this year. Well, October has come and gone. No new TLC album. Meanwhile, their Kickstarter campaign has raised over $400,000, greatly surpassing their initial goal of…
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Jamie Foxx to Quentin Tarantino: Keep Speaking the Truth About Police Brutality
Quentin Tarantino got himself into a lot of trouble recently when he referred to some deaths at the hands of police officers as “murder” at a rally denouncing police brutality. So much so that police unions across the nation have vowed to boycott his films. Well, he’s got a supporter in one of his former…
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I Can’t Have an Orgasm; What’s Wrong With Me?
I’m 34 years old and I’ve never had an orgasm. I’m a healthy woman. I enjoy intimate relations. What’s wrong with me? —Diane W. There is probably nothing wrong with you! Having an orgasm is not as easy as one might think. One in 10 women have never had an orgasm through sexual intercourse, manual…
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Deposition Reveals Bobbi Kristina’s Alleged Drug Use During Final Days
A deposition taken this fall in a civil lawsuit filed against Bobbi Kristina Brown reveals troubling new details about her alleged drug use during her final days, according to the Washington Post. Danyela D. Bradley, who lived with the 21-year-old at her Atlanta townhouse, said in a Sept. 24, 2015, deposition that she believed Bobbi…
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More Than 100,000 Sign Petition to Remove Raven-Symoné From The View
In the latest update about Raven-Symoné, an online petition is calling for her removal from The View after she intimated last week that a high school student in Columbia, S.C., could have avoided being violently attacked by a school resource officer if she had simply gotten off her phone. “You are in school, get…
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Watch: Spike Lee, Grand Marshal of NYC Marathon, Makes Short Film About the City
Filmmaker Spike Lee has long been known for his love of New York City. So it was fitting that he became the first New Yorker to serve as grand marshal of Sunday’s New York City Marathon, according to CBS New York. “He was blown away by the fact that we asked him to do it,…
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Mini Pope at the White House and Other Kid Halloween Costumes That Were Everything
From the mini pope at the White House to President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, some kids’ Halloween costumes this year were downright cute and creative, knocking the traditional Cinderella and Batman getups straight out of the box. Here are a few costumes from around the Internet that will give you a chuckle,…
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