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Twitter Reacts to How a NAACP Leader Bamboozled, Hoodwinked and Led People Astray About Her Race
The devil is a lie. Rachel Dolezal, a part-time college professor of Africana studies, got a tan and a perm to curl her naturally straight blond hair, married a black man, allegedly took her adopted black brother under her wing as her own child, and has seemingly been passing as black for years. Her parents…
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Keeping the Peace When My Fiance and Friend Clashed
I haven’t watched last week’s episode of the TV show I’m currently on, Blood Sweat and Heels. I had a digital copy of the episode before I boarded a plane at JFK Airport on an international flight last week. I haven’t seen the episode because I don’t want to. Let me explain: This season has…
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Need Relationship Advice? Rev. Run and Tyrese Will Be Dishing It Out on a TV Show for OWN
Rev. Run—born Joseph Simmons—is not ashamed to speak about his days as a philandering hip-hop pioneer and how he’s much happier now being faithful and married. Tyrese Gibson openly speaks about the mistakes he’s made in relationships, especially as a famous actor and R&B singer. Both men have already teamed up and released a relationship…
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Watch: Car-Crash Eyewitness Delivers Eccentric Account of the Accident; Segment Goes Viral
Brace yourself. The following interview will likely join the ranks of Sweet Brown’s “Oh Lord Jesus, it’s a fire” and Antoine Dodson’s “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife” soundbites that were made during news segments that went viral. A local Mississippi TV station covering a car accident interviewed Courtney Barnes, who wore a lime-green ponytail…
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Fame Is Coming Back to TV on Lifetime
Some stories can be told again and again and again. And for American audiences, it seems that bearing witness to several dozen high school students clawing their way to stardom by learning to dance, sing and act will never get old. That’s probably why Lifetime is bringing Fame back to the small screen, according to Broadway…
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Twitter Hilariously Drags the Man Who Called 911 on the Pool-Party Teens With #SeanToon911
David Eric Casebolt isn’t the only one catching flak for the epic disaster that occurred after the McKinney, Texas, pool party. Sharing in the “fun” is McKinney’s Sean Toon, who picked up the phone and called 911 on the teens who were in the McKinney suburban neighborhood because, he said, they were “not supposed to…
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Watch: Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson on Sex, Race and Hanging On to Acting by a Thread
Probably one of the worst parts about stereotypes is when the person being stereotyped starts believing the hype. During a candid roundtable discussion hosted by the Hollywood Reporter about what the acting profession is like for women in Hollywood, Viola Davis admitted that she cringed when she first saw herself on TV playing Annalise Keating…
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Black Parents Are the Real MVPs
There’s more to being a black parent than beating our kids, grieving for them or hollering at them. This may seem like an obvious point, but I’m compelled to make it after what we’ve witnessed recently in a spate of high-profile news events. Images of black moms “whooping” their kids in public or expressing anger…
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Woman Sues Dwight Howard, Says He’s Not Making Child Support Payments
It’s funny to think that NBA star Dwight Howard came into the league in 2004 as the goody-two-shoes athlete who was going to bring his Christian values to a sport overrun by bravado, groupies, fast money and a lavish lifestyle. Boy, has he fallen short of that. Now a woman named Tiffany has filed a…
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Kelly Rowland Channels Diana Ross, Sade and Other Divas in Hair Cover Shoot
Kelly Rowland got her hair (well, weave, but whatever) blown out, curled, braided, slicked back, straightened and bumped to achieve a few of the signature hair looks donned by pop-culture icons Diana Ross, Sade, Bianca Jagger and Farida Khelfa Goude. In a photo shoot with Mane Addicts, Rowland described her hair journey from the cute,…

