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Baltimore Orioles’ Adam Jones Called N-Word, Hit With Peanuts at Fenway Park
Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones was the recipient of racial epithets Monday night at Boston’s Fenway Park. Jones said it was the worst case of abuse he’s had to deal with in his career to date. “A disrespectful fan threw a bag of peanuts at me,” Jones said, according to USA Today. “I was…
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Colin Kaepernick Donates Custom-Made Suits to NYC Parolees
Colin Kaepernick’s football career may be in limbo, but that isn’t stopping him from continuing his community service benefiting those in need. Over the weekend, Kaepernick made a visit to a New York City parole office and donated two large boxes of custom-made suits to benefit 100 Suits for 100 Men, an organization that provides…
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American University Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Taunted With Bananas
American University’s race issues over the last two years have been brought to the media’s attention. In 2015, racist messages were being spewed on the popular social media campus app Yak. And just last year, bananas were thrown at black students. On Monday, it seems, racists were back to using bananas to convey their racist messages…
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You Can Now Own a Gabby Douglas Barbie
Gabby Douglas’ Barbie is officially available for purchase as part of Mattel’s Shero collection, which highlights women who break boundaries. Douglas’ doll wears a red-white-and-blue leotard, and according to Mattel, Douglas was involved in the design process. “It looks exactly like me,” said Douglas in a press release. “It was a really fun process.” Douglas…
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Katy Perry Gets Dragged for Barack Obama Joke
Katy Perry made a joke on Instagram over the weekend, and some say it was disrespectful to former President Barack Obama. Perry replied to a fan’s Instagram Live comment about her hair. “Oh, someone says, ‘I miss your old black hair,’” Perry said in her video. “Oh, really? Do you miss Barack Obama, as well?…
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White Reporter Resigns After Using N-Word in Twitter Direct-Messaging Convo
Valerie Hoff, a veteran reporter with Atlanta’s 11Alive news, resigned over the weekend after trying to get the scoop on a video of a white cop punching a black man turned into her using the n-word in conversation with the man who posted the video to social media. On April 13, Curtis Rivers posted a…
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Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival Is Half Hunger Games, Half Lord of the Flies
Update: April 28, 2017 3:52 p.m. est: Ja Rule has issued a statement on Twitter saying his event was not a scam and he’s doing everything in his power to make it right: Earlier: People expecting a luxurious music festival with performances by Blink-182 and Migos and a Kardashian appearance paid upward of $12,000 to…
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James Earl Jones to Receive Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced Thursday that two-time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones will receive the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Jones, whose career spans decades, won two Tony Awards, one for The Great White Hope (1969) and the other for Fences (1987). Aside from his theatrical accolades, Jones’…
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Trevor Noah Has Some Thoughts About Obama’s $400,000-Speech Haters
“Obama’s back, and so are the haters,” said Trevor Noah on Thursday’s Daily Show. Well, it seems as though these haters don’t want our former president to get a piece of the speech-money pie. But no one had a problem when previous presidents did. God forbid a black man is paid his worth. Noah had…
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Joseph Fiennes Still Thinks His Michael Jackson Portrayal Should Be Seen
I’m sure there comes a time in an actor’s life when he has a role he regrets. For example, I’m sure John Travolta regrets Face Off. And Jamie Foxx regrets the black version of Taken. I fully understand the concept of “a check is a check.” But in the case of Joseph Fiennes and a…
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