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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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Black Woman in New Orleans Is Protesting Removal of Jefferson Davis Statue
New Orleans is cleaning up the city by removing Confederate statues, but there’s one former resident who’s going to do everything she can to protest their removal. Even if that means proving that there’s always that “one” black person. Wearing a Confederate-flag T-shirt and waving a Confederate flag, Arlene Barnum, a native of New Orleans…
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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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Man Kicked Off Delta Flight Because He Used the Restroom While Plane Was Waiting on Tarmac
It can happen at the most inopportune time; sometimes your bladder has a mind of its own. But what do you do when you have the urge to pee after sitting for 30 minutes on a plane that’s on the tarmac? On April 18, Kima Hamilton was heading from Atlanta to Milwaukee on a Delta…
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Baltimore’s Mayor Asks FBI to Help Curb City’s Murder Rate
So far this year, there have been 100 homicides in Baltimore, and Mayor Catherine Pugh wants the FBI’s help. During her weekly address Wednesday, Pugh said that she wanted to get a handle on the murder rate before the summer begins. “Murder is out of control,” said Pugh. “There are too many guns on the…
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Man Files Suit Against R. Kelly, Charging He Had Affair With His Wife and Gave Her Chlamydia
A Mississippi man has filed a lawsuit against R. Kelly for allegedly popping on a little 12 Play and doing a little bumping and grinding with his wife. Deputy Kenneth Bryant, with the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department, says his wife, Asia Childress, was in a relationship with R. Kelly before Bryant and Childress’ July 15,…
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‘Haunting’ Is Now a Dating Trend, Not to Be Confused With ‘Ghosting’
People make dating hard. There was a time when you’d just tell someone you weren’t interested instead of “ghosting” them. Which basically means falling off the face of the earth and disappearing like a ghost. Then there were the times when you’d just break up with someone and they’d be “out of sight, out of…
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A Lesson in Sharing? Mother Goes Viral After Saying Her Son Isn’t Required to Share
One mother’s Facebook post has sparked a conversation about sharing and whether or not kids should be made to share. In a Facebook post, Alanya Kolberg wrote about an incident her son had at a park. Kolberg says that as soon as they arrived at the park, kids approached her son, Carson, and asked him…
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