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Dear Lifetime: How Does One Cast a Light-Skinned, Skinny Missy Elliott and Timbaland?
Lifetime’s Aaliyah biopic is really starting to perturb a lot of people. In the cable network’s most recent casting reveal, we have the actors who will portray Missy Elliott and Timbaland, two of the people who had a hand in crafting Aaliyah’s sound. First, let’s take a look at Elliott and Timbaland of yesteryear:…
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Shows How Black People Are Portrayed in Mainstream Media
The vicious slaying of Mike Brown by Ferguson, Mo., police has once again shown that the narrative the media paints surrounding black people in America more often than not includes depicting us as violent thugs with gang and drug affiliations. It’s safe to say that Brown has become a victim of what I like to refer…
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Twitter Drags News Agency for Offensive Renisha McBride Tweet
On the heels of Theodore Wafer’s guilty verdict on Thursday for the murder of Renisha McBride in Dearborn, Mich., the Associated Press got its ass handed to it courtesy of Twitter. AP prides itself on being a respectable news agency, but last night it proved that it had no respect for the 19-year-old, whom Wafer shot after…
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Want to Avoid ‘Sketchy’ Neighborhoods? There’s an App for That—Created by White People
As a black person who’s been around countless metropolitan areas, such as Newark, N.J.; Baltimore; and Southeast D.C., the only places I tend to avoid now are where a plethora of Confederate flags and KKK meetings are being held. And in my current state of residence, those are in abundance. But I doubt that those…
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Angela Bassett Proves ‘Black Doesn’t Crack’ in New Photo Shoot
Angela Bassett may have portrayed a voodoo queen in last season’s American Horror Story: Coven, but there’s definitely no magic being used when she seemingly defies aging. In a recent interview with the Violet Files, the 55-year-old actress revealed that although some may see her beauty when they look at her, she sees a “passionate…
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The Basketball Player Formerly Known as Ron Artest and Metta World Peace Is Now ‘the Pandas Friend’
In today’s “he has too much time on his hands” news, Ron Artest—I mean Metta World Peace—is apparently changing his name as he embarks on a move to the Chinese Basketball Association. Artest (your momma named you Ron Artest, so I’m going to call you Ron Artest) will be known as the Pandas Friend while…
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Kanye West Compares Fight Against Paparazzi to Civil Rights Movement
Kanye West suffered from diarrhea of the mouth and delusions during his sworn deposition for his paparazzi-assault trial. During the deposition, posted by TMZ, West had the audacity to compare his celebrity-status struggles to the struggles people faced during the civil rights struggle. “[Celebrities], as a group of minorities here in LA … have to…
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Watch: Barack Obama Sings Iggy Azalea’s ‘Fancy’
I don’t usually listen to Iggy Azalea’s music, but when I do it’s being “sung” by President Barack Obama. In the latest edition of YouTube’s popular Barackdubs channel, various Obama speeches are pieced together to cover the first few verses of Azalea’s hit “Fancy.” Honestly, I’d give anything to hear Obama say “First thing first,…
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Tisha Campbell-Martin: ‘When I Was 3, I Was Raped’
During a recent TV appearance on The Daily Helpline, actress Tisha Campbell-Martin revealed for the first time that she was raped at the age of 3. Campbell-Martin’s admission came as she was giving advice to a young woman who had also been raped. “You can no longer be a victim, you have to be victorious…
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Lee Daniels to Direct The Brian Banks Story
In 2003, All-American high school athlete Brian Banks was on his way to the University of Southern California on a full football scholarship. But all that changed when his classmate Wanetta Gibson accused him of rape. Banks, who was 16 at the time, followed his attorney’s ill-advised counsel and pleaded “no contest” to forcible rape,…
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