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Azealia Banks in a Few Tweets Outlines the Kind of Relationship She Wants With Black Media
Editor’s note: This post contains tweets that some may find offensive. Azealia Banks’ cup runneth over. The retro-punk rapper and singer who rose to mixtape fame with her hit single “212”—and a few highly publicized disputes with other celebrities over issues like racism and cultural appropriation—is fed up with media, but more specifically with black…
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Forest Whitaker Is Making His Broadway Debut in Hughie
All the greats eventually return to the stage, where most actors cut their teeth. Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, a trained stage actor, will be making his Broadway debut this spring playing a hustler named Erie in the Eugene O’Neill play Hughie. Al Pacino played Erie in 1996. According to Variety, the play is an…
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Detective Who Was Critical of LAPD’s Biggie Smalls Investigation Dies During Interview for His Upcoming Notorious B.I.G. Book
You had to be living under a rock in the late 1990s if you don’t recognize Russell Poole, the former detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who appeared in a number of television specials and documentaries about the murder investigation of one of the greatest MCs ever to do it: the Notorious B.I.G. (government…
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Dump Trump, Draft Oprah and Other Outsider Political Fantasies
When Donald Trump announced his plan to run for president in June, few Republican strategists and cable-news media personalities gave him a serious chance to secure the party’s nomination. Many people believed that early missteps, especially controversial statements he made about Mexicans and Sen. John McCain, would sink his campaign before it could really get…
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1 Dead, 1 Critically Injured in Fight Over Umbrella at NYC McDonald’s
A dispute over an umbrella turned deadly Friday morning at a McDonald’s in New York City’s East Harlem community when a quarrel between two couples erupted into a “savage knife-stabbing frenzy,” reports the New York Daily News. The incident occurred on a bustling commercial strip during peak rush hour traffic outside the McDonald’s at 125th…
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Zoë Kravitz Says Mom Lisa Bonet Is ‘Disgusted’ by Cosby Charges
While former Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet pleads “the fifth” on the swirl of allegations surrounding Bill Cosby, her daughter says the actress is “appalled” by sex assault charges against her once-beloved television dad, according to the New York Daily News. Zoë Kravitz, 26, told The Guardian that her mother, who played Denise Huxtable on…
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Father of US Train Hero Anthony Sadler Jr. Is ‘Relieved’ He ‘Wasn’t Hurt or Killed’
Anthony Sadler Sr. told NBC News affiliate KCRA in Sacramento, Calif., that he was “stunned” and “relieved” when he heard that his son was one of three Americans who on Friday helped subdue a gunman aboard a high-speed train en route to Paris from Amsterdam. “[I’m] proud, you know,” the father told the news station…
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Watch: Obamas Take Bike Ride in State Forest on Martha’s Vineyard Vacation
During the last day full day of the first family’s summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, the Obamas on Saturday took a bike ride through the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest in West Tisbury, Mass., according to the Cape Cod Times. On Sunday the president and his family are expected to end their two-week…
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Fla. Ex-Con Arrested After Giving Police Fake Name—for Wanted Felon
When ex-con Darius Devonte McClain was questioned by police for blaring loud music from his car stereo on a side street in Winter Haven, Fla., he gave them his brother’s name, according to the New York Daily News. Little did he know, however, that his brother Dequan Gunter, from nearby Putnam County in central Florida,…
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Father of 4 Slain While Working Overtime at Federal Building in NYC
A retired U.S. Army Reserve captain outraged that he was fired by the Department of Labor Statistics shot and killed a 53-year-old security guard at a federal building in New York City on Friday, according to the New York Daily News. Idrissa Camara, a native of Ivory Coast, was shot at close range by Kevin…
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