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Terrence Howard’s Bizarre Interview With Rolling Stone Will Leave You Asking, ‘What Did I Just Read?’
I’m still trying to process it all. Terrence Howard’s recent interview with Rolling Stone is anything but uninteresting, but that’s not always a good thing. Howard’s career has had its share of highs and lows. Right now he’s riding the Lucious Lyon wave of fame that Empire has brought him. But with fame comes the…
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Shonda Rhimes and Viola Davis Reflect on ‘Angry Black Woman’ Comments 1 Year Later
Last year, a New York Times article written by Alessandra Stanley sparked outrage on social media after she referred to TV powerhouse Shonda Rhimes as an “angry black woman” and Viola Davis as “less classically beautiful.” “When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman,” Stanley wrote. And now,…
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Hunger Games’ Amandla Stenberg Creates Black-Woman-Warrior Comic Book
Hunger Games star Amandla Stenberg is just 16 years old but is already paving her own way outside of Hollywood when it comes to the representation of black women. Stenberg, who has been vocal when it comes to cultural appropriation, is now stepping into the comic book arena and is giving black women the attention…
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James Bond Author Says Idris Elba Is ‘Too Street’ to Play James Bond
At this point, Idris Elba probably doesn’t even want to play James Bond. During a year of speculation, Elba has continually denied even being in the running, but now the author of the most recent Bond book, Trigger Mortis, has really stuck his foot in his mouth. Anthony Horowitz, in an interview with the Daily…
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Because He Got High: Kanye Announces 2020 Run for President During MTV Video Music Awards in Rambling Speech
On Sunday night, Kanye West received the Video Vanguard Award at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. The award was ironically presented to him by his former archnemesis, Taylor Swift. In true West fashion, he said a lot of things, but no one really understood anything he said: Bro, bro, listen to the kids. Jeremy, I…
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Kanye West’s Best Moment Came During Hurricane Katrina
It’s been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans. It’s also been 10 years since Kanye West spoke so much truth on live television, he left the world speechless. During the broadcast of A Concert for Hurricane Relief, West and comedian Mike Myers spoke about the effects the hurricane had had on New Orleans. As…
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Spike Lee to Receive Honorary Oscar
Some may say that Spike Lee should have received an Oscar years ago, but it looks as if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is trying to make it up to the legendary filmmaker. Honorary Oscar statuettes are given “to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture…
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Donald Trump Deports Univision Reporter From Presser, Proving He Is Still the Biggest Troll in America
If you took a look at any of Donald Trump’s recent appearances and press conferences, you’d think you were standing in the middle of some bizarro alternate-reality world. At the podium is one of the world’s richest men, wearing one of the world’s worst spray tans and a comb-over that has an appearance similar to…
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Hey, BuzzFeed: Big Daddy Kane Didn’t Wear Them and Jay Z Didn’t Rap About ‘3 Cuts in Your Eyebrows’ for You to Call Them ‘Slits’
I know for a fact that there are black people working at BuzzFeed. Never mind that recently a black BuzzFeed writer totally missed the mark on Jamaican food. But there really are black people at BuzzFeed. I’ve seen them. One has to wonder why a black writer did not inform the writer of “People Are…
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Dee Barnes Responds to Dr. Dre’s Apology
Last week, journalist Dee Barnes wrote a highly critical piece concerning Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray and the fact that the movie painted N.W.A as saints and not the misogynistic group they were—especially considering that Dr. Dre brutally beat Barnes in 1991. Days after that article went viral and had everyone talking, Dr. Dre…
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