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  • Riley Curry Shows Off Her Best Dance Moves on 3rd Birthday  

    Riley Curry is no longer America’s favorite 2-year-old. She’s now America’s favorite 3-year-old. Riley, daughter of Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha, celebrated her third birthday Sunday. Riley’s mom posted an Instagram of the adorable toddler dancing to Silento’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” “This is 3!!!” Ayesha Curry wrote Sunday. “Happy birthday baby girl! Never…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 20, 2015
  • #IfIDieInPoliceCustody Trends as People Look for Answers in the Death of Sandra Bland  

    People are looking for answers when it comes to the death of Sandra Bland. Bland, a 28-year-old Illinois native, was road-tripping to Texas to start her new job at Prairie View A&M University. But she never made it. Bland was pulled over for allegedly failing to use a signal to switch lanes. It was that traffic…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 17, 2015
  • Bravo’s Andy Cohen Labels Amandla Stenberg’s Comments on Appropriation ‘Jackhole of the Day’; Twitter Responds With #BoycottBravo

    Bravo’s Andy Cohen is feeling the heat on social media after Sunday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live. Cohen, whose guests included Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox and Vogue Editor-at-Large Andre Leon Talley, felt it was appropriate to give Amandla Stenberg the label “Jackhole of the Day” after the Hunger Games star…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 14, 2015
  • 50 Cent Files for Bankruptcy

    “More money, more problems” is the saying, and it seems that 50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson, has some explaining to do when it comes to where his dollars disappeared to. According to the Wall Street Journal, the man once dubbed the “richest rapper in the world” filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. “In court papers filed in…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 13, 2015
  • Hunger Games Star Amandla Stenberg Is Spending Summer Vacation Teaching White Chicks in Cornrows About Appropriation

    This spring, Amandla Stenberg, star of The Hunger Games, made headlines when a school project about appropriation went viral. In the video “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” Stenberg called out white people who appropriate black culture. “In the 2010s, pop stars and icons adopted black culture as a way of being edgy and gaining attention,” Stenberg…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 13, 2015
  • Paula Deen Is Still Racist: Posts Brownface Photo of Son on Twitter  

    Paula Deen hasn’t learned anything. You’d think after losing a TV show and endorsements, her hot-butter-loving ass would know what not to do when it comes to making fun of different races. For her #TransformationTuesday photo, Deen posted a photo of herself with her son Bobby dressed up as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo from I…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 7, 2015
  • Russell Wilson Says God Asked Him to Guide Ciara as the Couple Practices Abstinence  

    Seattle Seahawks star Russell Wilson and R&B singer Ciara are currently the “it” couple. With a romance that sparked shortly after Ciara ended her relationship with rapper Future, Wilson and Ciara have been seen arm in arm at events. Although the couple has shared cutesy messages to each other on Twitter, Wilson is now speaking…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 7, 2015
  • Dear Bill Cosby Defenders: What Do You Have to Say for Yourselves Now?  

    Over the last year, I’ve sat back and reported on case after case after case of women coming forward with rape and drug claims against everyone’s favorite TV dad, Bill Cosby. Every day, almost immediately after a post hit Facebook and Twitter, Cosby’s defenders pulled their capes out of the closet and defended his honor…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 7, 2015
  • Court Documents Show Bill Cosby Admitted to Getting Drugs to Use on Women

    In yet another chapter in the Bill Cosby sex-and-drugging scandal, the Associated Press unearthed court documents showing that Cosby admitted to acquiring drugs to give women for sex. In 2005 Cosby testified that he got Quaaludes for the sole purpose of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with. The court documents, which…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 6, 2015
  • Michael B. Jordan Comes Out Punching in Trailer for Rocky Spinoff Creed

    Filmmaker Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan first teamed up together on Fruitvale Station, the story of Oscar Grant’s killing at the hands of police officers in Oakland, Calif., which was a Sundance Film Festival hit. Now Coogler and Jordan are joining forces again, and this time, it’s sure to be another heavy hitter. Creed,…

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    Yesha Callahan






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    July 1, 2015
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