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Donald Trump Has Beef With Snoop Dogg Over Music Video
Shortly after tweeting about fake news regarding his 2005 tax returns, Donald Trump turned his attention to more important news: a rapper’s music video. Apparently, Trump has finally gotten wind of Snoop Dogg’s video for “Lavender,” which depicts Trump as a clown president (life imitating art) with Snoop aiming a gun at his head. Of…
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Issa Rae Announces Insecure’s Season 2 Premiere Date
Issa premiere date! Issa Rae took to Twitter to answer some burning questions about Insecure’s second season. But the only burning question that really matters is, when will the second season air? Mark your calendars for July 23, 2017, because Issa and friends are heading back to HBO. Just a week ago, it was announced…
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Sen. Marco Rubio Calls Out Snoop Dogg for ‘Klump’ Assassination
The video for Canadian group BadBadNotGood’s song “Lavender,” featuring Snoop Dogg and Kaytranada, is catching criticism after Snoop Dogg assassinated a clownlike Trump character. In the Suicide Squad-like video, directed by Jesse Wellens and James DeFina, Michael Rapaport stars as a clown (not to be confused with real life) who gets shot by a clown…
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White Bachelorette Contestant: ‘I’m Ready to Go Black and I’m Never Going to Go Back’
On Monday night, Rachel Lindsay was thrown a curveball at the end of The Bachelor and was surprised by the show when the host told her The Bachelorette would begin immediately. During Rachel’s one-on-one interview with host Chris Harrison, she explained how she felt leading up to her season. “I am ready. I was a…
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Here’s a T-Shirt You Probably Shouldn’t Wear on St. Patrick’s Day
Wypipo strike again. And this time they’re aiming for the drunk fools who’ll be out celebrating St. Patrick’s Day by co-opting the Black Lives Matter movement. The folks at PubCrawls.com thought it would be a good idea to create a green Drunk Lives Matter T-shirt, which is being sold for $19.95. Not only does the…
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Kourtney Kardashian’s Get Out Tweet Didn’t Go Over Too Well
Maybe Kourtney Kardashian saw Get Out, or maybe she was subtweeting Scott Disick to get out for the 100th time. But Twitter definitely felt that it was ironic for a Kardashian to tweet about a movie involving a black man and a crazy white family. Someone needs to do an intervention on Tristan Thompson before…
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Does Anyone Care About DC’s Missing Black and Latinx Teens?
Updated Monday, March 13, 2017, 2:04 p.m. EDT: Updated Monday, March 13, 2017 7 a.m. EDT: Earlier: Over the last week, my timeline on Twitter has been inundated with retweets from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., with photos of missing black and Latinx teens. Within the last week, 10 teens have gone missing…
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Rep. Steve King: ‘We Can’t Restore Our Civilization With Somebody Else’s Babies’
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) decided to let his Nazi freak flag fly (again) Sunday afternoon. King, who’s known for embracing racism and supporting European white supremacists, tweeted his support for Geert Wilders’ bid to become prime minister of the Netherlands . King has previously been vocal about his support of people like Norbert Hofer, the 2016…
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How the AMERICAN WOMAN Project Aims to Make Black Women the Face of America
When you think of the all-American-girl type of woman, you probably think of a sun-kissed, blond-haired woman, wearing a size 6 dress and either “leaning in” or happily being a doting, work-from-home mom. Sure, some may say there’s nothing wrong with either of these representations, but there are other types of American women who are…
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Giants: A YouTube Series That Tackles Mental Health and Masculinity in the Black Community
Issa Rae’s YouTube channel recently launched Giants, a new series written and directed by James Bland and starring Vanessa Baden, William Catlett and Bland himself. The series is about “three millennials determined to live life on their own terms, no matter the cost, [who] quickly learn that when life starts to kick your ass, you…
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