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Donald Sterling Sues Ex V. Stiviano and TMZ Over Leaked Racist Rant
Donald Sterling, the former NBA team owner whose racist telephone rant precipitated his loss of the Los Angeles Clippers, on Friday sued the ex-girlfriend accused of leaking the audio and the entertainment-news outlet that broke the story, according to Variety. The lawsuit accuses ex-girlfriend V. Stiviano of “surreptitiously” recording phone conversations between Sterling and her…
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Watch: Michael Sam ‘Steps Away’ From Canadian Football League Over Mental-Health Issues
Michael Sam, who made history last year when he became the first openly gay player drafted by a National Football League team, announced Friday that he was stepping away from football over concerns about his mental health, Reuters reports. “The last 12 months have been very difficult for me, to the point where I became…
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Chill Out With a Cold One: 5 Perfect Beers for Summer
After more than a decade spent in a variety of positions with IBM, Michael Ferguson found his true calling: beer. In 1989 he began working as a brewer, and that move launched a journey that has made him one of the public faces in American craft beer. Craft beer sales are skyrocketing; according to sales…
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Prewedding Jitters Led Me to Sleep With My Ex. Should I Call Off the Wedding?
I’m knee-deep in it and truly don’t know what to do. I am getting married on Saturday. I have been having my “what if” moments, more than I thought I would. “What if” led me to my ex, the man I initially thought I would be with forever. I told him my thoughts. We talked and…
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Janelle Monáe Releases ‘Hell You Talmbout’ Song Dedicated to Black Lives Matter
Janelle Monáe released the song “Hell You Talmbout” Thursday as an ode to the Black Lives Matter movement. She posted a message on Instagram explaining how the song is a “vessel” to express the grief experienced by those communities that are subjected to excessive police force and vigilante violence. “This song is a vessel. It…
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Will Smith Is Reportedly Working to Bring a New Version of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Back to TV
Will Smith and his production company, OverBrook Entertainment, are reportedly up to things. Good things. Word on the street, courtesy of TVLine, is that he and his cohorts are in the early stages of developing a sitcom that will be a reboot of the 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show catapulted Smith’s acting…
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Watch: A Makeup Artist Inadvertently Botches a Black Woman’s Face and Black People on Facebook React
This video, if nothing else, shows how difficult it is for chocolate-complexioned women to walk into a cosmetics store and trust any ol’ body to beat their face. However well-intentioned and highly trained makeup artists may be, some of them don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to dark-brown complexions. Fashion model Nykhor Paul…
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Movie Review: A New Film Exposes the Truth About Tango’s African Roots
There is no doubt that African music is at the core of the native sounds for America, Brazil, Colombia and all of the Caribbean. In Argentina, the subject is a tad more controversial. Tango is the core music of the country and its neighbor Uruguay, yet in Argentina it has bordered on scandalous to suggest…
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When a Slave Ship Figures Into Family Lore
Last month marked the 176th anniversary of the slave-led mutiny aboard the schooner Amistad. That act of bravery on July 1, 1839, resulted in freedom for 35 Africans after a legal process that culminated in having a former president, John Quincy Adams, plead their case before the Supreme Court. Freedom, however, was not in the…
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Watch: Lamar Odom Scolds TMZ, Says Its Coverage of Black Entertainers Is a Lot Worse Than That of White Celebs
TMZ caught up with Lamar Odom to get the scoop on what happened between him and his soon-to-be ex-wife during a recent confrontation. But it’s what Odom had to say about how the gossip site covers black men and rappers that’s more telling. “I know what your company is about. I know what they’re doing…
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