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President Obama Celebrates His 55th Birthday With Star-Studded Bash
Our 44th president brought in his 55th birthday in straight Leo style on Friday night: with a big ole party. Famously tight-lipped about the Obamas’ personal life, the White House did concede this much: “The first lady is hosting a 55th birthday celebration for [President Barack Obama] at the White House,” a rep for the…
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Inez Y. Kaiser, 1st Black Woman to Own National Public Relations Firm, Dies at 98
Today, black-women-owned public relations firms are plentiful. But in the late 1950s, there was only one—the first one. Inez Yeargan Kaiser, the 98-year-old pioneer who was the first black woman in the U.S. to own a P.R. firm, has died. She was 98 years old. Kaiser, who began her business in public relations after teaching…
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Longtime Friends Start Mobile Shower Facility for the Homeless in Fla.
Chris Bentley and Carlos Miller, two African-American men who have been friends since middle school, have started an innovative way to help the homeless of Palm Beach County, Fla. The two started a nonprofit—Live FRESH (Feeling Revitalized Encourages Sustainable Happiness)—and have launched a mobile shower facility, an air-conditioned trailer equipped with six private shower/changing-area rooms,…
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Man Who Beat Up Dylann Roof Is Out on Bond
More than 18 months after his arrest, the man who assaulted Dylann Roof is out on bond—less than 48 hours after an online donation fund was set up in his name. According to court records, 26-year-old Dwayne Stafford, who was jailed on charges of strong armed robbery, assault and lying to police, was released Friday…
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She's Gotta Have It, 30 Years Later: Where Are They Now?
It’s been 30 years since we were introduced to Nola Darling, a sex-positive, independent woman in Brooklyn, N.Y., who was trying to pick the right suitor in Spike Lee’s feature-film directorial debut, She’s Gotta Have It. There was polite Jamie, self-absorbed Greer and please-baby-baby-please Mars, all vying for her attention. Thirty years after Lee’s feature-film…
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Watch: Obama Gets Hype for Blistering DNC Speech by Listening to Eminem's 'Lose Yourself'
If you thought President Barack Obama bodied his swan song speech at the Democratic National Convention last month, you can thank the one and only Slim Shady for getting POTUS amped up. Obama can be seen backstage with his face screwed up, bobbing his head to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” the ultimate get-amped song, with lyrics…
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Prince’s Paisley Park May Be Sold to Highest Bidder
The place that is most intimately associated with late pop genius Prince may be on the bidding block. The New York Daily News reports that the the 60,000-square-foot Minnesota estate where the singer was found dead of a drug overdose in April is ready to be sold by his bank, along with his other properties,…
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Ga. Father Charged in ‘Hot Car’ Death of Twins
Because police believe that a Carrollton, Ga., man was drunk when he left his 15-month-old twin girls in a hot car on Thursday, they are charging him in their deaths. Asa North, 24, faces two counts of involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct for leaving his children unattended in a car, WSB-TV reports. Weather.com notes that…
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South Jersey Man’s Wife, Girlfriend Place Competing Obituaries in Same Paper
Talk about a hot mess. Or maybe it’s an understanding. After 55-year-old Leroy Black passed away from lung cancer on Tuesday, two different women placed obituaries of him in the same newspaper. One posting was by his “loving wife Bearetta Harrison Black” who called him “Bill.” His “longtime girlfriend Princess Hall”’s obit referred to Black…
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5 Hot Takes From the Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies
Like, whoa. As other athletes in the Parade of Nations predictably wore dockers and sports blazers, Pita Nikolas Taufatofua from the island nation of Tonga came out bare-chested, slathered in oil and adorned in a ta’ovala, a traditional Tongan mat. The 32-year-old will compete in taekwondo for his country, but he won the gold for the…
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