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#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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Watch: Devon Still’s Emotional ESPY Speech on Daughter Leah’s Battle With Cancer
Cincinnati Bengals player Devon Still gave an emotional speech about his daughter Leah’s battle with cancer at Wednesday’s ESPY Awards. Leah and her dad were honored at the ESPYs and given the Jimmy V Perseverance Award. Still recalled the number of times he’s prayed that he wouldn’t lose his daughter to the disease. “I remember…
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Andy Cohen and Laverne Cox Apologize for Amandla Stenberg Comments
Andy Cohen and Laverne Cox have both seen the light when it comes to Sunday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live! “Today’s Jackhole goes to the Instagram feud between Kylie Jenner and Hunger Games star/Jaden Smith’s prom date, Amandla Stenberg, who criticized Kylie for her cornrows, calling it cultural appropriation,” Cohen had said before…
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50 Cent on Bankruptcy Filing: ‘I Got a Decent Legal Team; You Don’t Have to Worry’
On Monday, 50 Cent announced that he was filing for bankruptcy, and the jokes and questions about why he filed and how someone could lose so much money have been rolling in, especially since Forbes estimated his wealth at $155 million. But in the world of rich people protecting their necks, I mean assets, the…
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President Obama on Bill Cosby: ‘I Think This Country, Any Civilized Country, Should Have No Tolerance for Rape’
President Barack Obama held an in-depth press conference Wednesday on his recent Iran deal, and journalist April Ryan took the opportunity to question the president about the Bill Cosby scandal, asking if Obama would revoke the embattled comedian’s Presidential Medal of Freedom, presented to him in 2002. Many people would like to see the medal that…
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Elle UK Says Baby Hair Is a New ‘Trend’
Baby hair used to be a thing back in the day. Your mother would take a brush and make sure the baby hairs were nice and neat. But eventually, unlike Chilli from TLC, you grew out of your baby-hair phase. Which was probably around the same time you discovered bangs. What good was baby hair…
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Whoopi Goldberg Backtracks on Defending Bill Cosby
Et tu, Whoopi Goldberg? Goldberg is now among the latest celebrities to come to their senses when it comes to defending Bill Cosby. Goldberg, who has made a habit of defending abusers, is finally realizing that she may have jumped to Cosby’s defense too fast. During Tuesday’s episode of The View, Goldberg sat down with…
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#GrowingUpBlack Is the Best Thing on #BlackTwitter This Week
Remember fried bologna sandwiches? Or even your mother warning you that you better be in the house before the street lights come on? For me as a black kid, there were just certain things that were a given in my area when I was growing up. You knew if you took $1 to the corner…
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Brandy Sings Undercover on NYC Subway and Gets Ignored
There is very little that New Yorkers on a subway train in the middle of the day are fazed by. That includes a talented singer singing at the top of her lungs. R&B singer, and now Broadway actress, Brandy Norwood took a subway ride in disguise and sang her heart out, but no one paid…
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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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