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What Does It Truly Mean To Be A Millionaire Today…And in 20 Years?
One million dollars” has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? As a youngster becoming a millionaire meant you made it. It was fun daydreaming about the luxurious items you would buy with all of the money that flowed infinitely. For many, becoming a millionaire means automatic security and a life of luxury and leisure.…
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Chris Brown’s Mansion Is Looted and His Aunt Held at Gunpoint and Locked in the Closet During the Robbery
Chris Brown just experienced a terrible ordeal: His Los Angeles-area mansion was looted in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, but it was his aunt who came face-to-face with the three burglars, the New York Daily News reports. According to police, three armed black men wearing bandannas over their faces made their way into Brown’s…
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NY Radio Station Hot 97 Is in Hot Water With Black Twitter After Asking if Black Women Have an Attitude Problem
It’s just not a good look—especially for Hot 97, of all stations. It was the first urban New York City radio station and retains its popular tagline, “Where Hip Hop Lives.” So that someone at the station—presumably radio anchor Ebro—fixed his fingers (or told a lowly intern) to tweet out an inquiry asking folks whether…
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Here Are the 1st Glimpses of Barack and Michelle’s Love Story on the Small Screen
It was 1989, and a young Michelle Robinson was tasked with showing a wide-eyed, bushy-tailed law student the ropes at Sidley Austin, a white-shoe law firm in Chicago. He had a funny name: Barack Obama. He ended up asking her out, taking her for ice cream on one date and then to see Spike Lee’s…
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My Ex Is Spilling the Tea About Me on Social Media; How Do I Make Him Stop?
My ex is very active on social media. Whenever he is upset or annoyed with me, he writes about me in a condescending manner. He doesn’t say my name, but I know it’s about me because I know what’s going on. So do my friends. I’ve asked him so many times to stop, but he…
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He’s Bankrupt; Should I Marry Him?
Harriette Cole is the author of the book of meditations 108 Stitches: Words We Live By and a contributing editor at The Root. Follow her on Twitter.
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President Calls for Racial Justice and Prison Reform
President Barack Obama’s call for major criminal-justice reforms at the NAACP convention in Philadelphia Tuesday offered concrete policy follow-through to issues of racial justice the president raised during his historic eulogy in Charleston, S.C., last month. In the City of Brotherly Love, Obama outlined a series of reforms aimed at reducing the numbers of Americans in…
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Nick Gordon Served With a $10,000,000 Lawsuit That Claims He Once Hit Bobbi Kristina Brown, Knocking Out Her Tooth
Nick Gordon was walking out of a Starbucks Sunday, holding a Frappuccino in one hand, when a $10 million civil compaint levied against him was shoved into his free hand, the New York Daily News reports. Gordon was officially served with the lawsuit that Bobbi Kristina Brown’s court-appointed representative filed against him in June. In…
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Cosby Show Actor Says He Fell for the Okey-Doke: ‘Of Course Cosby Is Guilty’
He was the dude on The Cosby Show whom Denise (played by Lisa Bonet) brought home and introduced to Dr. and Mrs. Cosby as her husband: Lt. Martin Kendall. The actor Joseph C. Phillips, now 53, wrote a lengthy post on his blog about how, although he has always idolized Bill Cosby, he has since…
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Future’s Comments About His Sex Life With Ciara Are Distasteful and Ungentlemanly
Although Future didn’t just come out and start blabbering about his sex life with Ciara, he didn’t exactly bite his tongue, either. The rapper was prompted by a question posed to him during an interview with HuffPost Live, about whether he and Ciara waited for some time to have sex. And that question was prompted…
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