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#MovingInWhileBlack: Former White House Staffer Accused of Breaking Into His Own Apartment
Here’s an updated list of reasons why the cops have been called on black people: #BreathingWhileBlack, #WalkingWhileBlack, #HoldingACellPhoneWhileBlack, #EatingAtTheWaffleHouseWhileBlack, #SittingAtStarbucksWhileBlack … and now you can add #MovingInWhileBlack. And that’s just what happened to former White House staffer Darren Martin as he was moving into his Upper West Side apartment in New York City. Martin, a…
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Some People Are Mad Because a Chapter in Issa Rae’s 3-Year-Old Book Says Black Women and Asian Men Should Date Each Other
Three years ago, Issa Rae’s book, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, skyrocketed onto several best-seller lists. It was basically a signal that Rae had “arrived” and wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Shortly after the book came her HBO series, Insecure, which, of course, we all know has millions of people sitting in front of their…
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Women of Color Within Time’s Up Join #MuteRKelly Protest
To Our Fellow Women of Color: We see you. We hear you. Because we are you. For too long, our community has ignored our pain. The pain we bear is a burden that too many women of color have had to bear for centuries. The wounds run deep. As women of color within Time’s Up,…
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Miramax Releases Trailer for Upcoming Whitney Houston Documentary
At the age of 48, Whitney Houston died a tragic death on Feb. 11, 2012. The singer’s body was found in a bathtub at the famed Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. According to the official autopsy report, the cause of death was an accidental drowning, and heart disease and cocaine use were listed as…
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Police Caught on Camera Physically Assaulting Former NFL Player Desmond Marrow
A video from December has surfaced showing former NFL player Desmond Marrow being assaulted by Henry County police officers in McDonough, Ga., after an alleged road rage incident. According to court documents from the lawyer for the Atlanta chapter of Black Lives Matter, which is representing Marrow, the former athlete says a white man threw…
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Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Aggravated Indecent Assault
On Thursday a jury in Norristown, Pa., that consisted of seven men and five women found Bill Cosby guilty of aggravated indecent assault after 14 hours of deliberation. Cosby was on trial for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004. During the trial, five women testified against the 80-year-old comedian…
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Kelis Opens Up About Physical Abuse She Dealt With During Marriage to Nas
During an interview with Hollywood Unlocked, singer-turned-chef Kelis detailed the physical abuse she suffered at the hands of Nas during their marriage. Kelis described the marriage as tumultuous and abusive, so much so that she would walk around with bruises all over her body. “There was a lot of mental and physical abuse,” Kelis said.…
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How the West Was Lost
Five years ago I wrote to a friend about Kanye West’s well-reviewed but (in my opinion) emperor-has-no-clothes, comically awful album Yeezus: “I’m not sure what Kanye even does musically anymore except be Kanye, similar to Donald Trump’s name being used by foreign firms being used to market products because it’s recognizable,” I noted. Those shocked…
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Winston Duke Says Black Women Have Been His No. 1 Fans
Ever since the release of our favorite groundbreaking monster hit Black Panther, Tobagonian Winston Duke has accumulated a great following of fans for his portrayal of Jabari renegade M’Baku. He reprises his role as the Wakandan warrior in Avengers: Infinity War this week, so it is to be expected that the internet will have something…
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Here’s What Happened After I Left a 3-Star Yelp Review for a Pizza Parlor
Updated Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 1:55 p.m. EDT: Yelp issued a statement via Twitter and an email about the incident: We’re sorry to hear about your experience following your review of La Porchetta this past weekend and want to ensure that you know we take these types of issues very seriously. We have elevated the…
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