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It Only Took Weeks: Nicki Minaj Fires Back at Remy Ma on ‘No Frauds’
While Remy Ma was dropping diss track after diss track, Nicki Minaj was not only traipsing through Paris Fashion Week but also enlisting the help of her homeboys Drake and Lil Wayne to craft not one, but three, responses to Remy Ma’s “shETHER.” Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne appear on “No Frauds,” and Nicki’s…
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Deadpool 2 Casts Atlanta Actress Zazie Beetz as Domino
Earlier this week, rumors surfaced that Janelle Monáe would be cast as Domino in the upcoming Deadpool sequel. But Ryan Reynolds put those rumors to rest after tweeting that Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz had captured the role. Beetz, the only female lead on Atlanta, has also appeared in Easy (which is currently streaming on Netflix), Margot…
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Ciara and Family Pose in New Maternity Shoot
Ciara, Russell Wilson and Toddler Future were all smiles in a family maternity photo shoot. Well, technically, we can’t really tell if Wilson is smiling—because you can’t see his head. The shoot, which was done for Harper’s Bazaar and shot by Dani Brubaker, definitely doesn’t need to be replicated by us everyday folks. But there’s…
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Samuel L. Jackson on Ben Carson’s ‘Immigrants’: ‘MUTHAF–KA PLEASE!!!’
Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson proved Monday that he knows absolutely nothing about slavery. Then Samuel L. Jackson proved that he has no problem calling the head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development a dickhead. Be like Samuel L. Jackson. Don’t be like Ben Carson (well, unless you learn to stick to your medical…
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Chance the Rapper Donates $1,000,000 to Chicago Public Schools
Last week, Chance the Rapper met with Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner to discuss the Chicago Public Schools system and its current disarray. But the Grammy Award-winning rapper wasn’t pleased with the meeting and has decided to take matters into his own hands. On Monday, Chance announced that he’ll make a $1 million donation to CPS…
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Fantasia Hospitalized After Burn Incident
Fantasia was hospitalized Sunday evening after suffering second-degree burns. Fantasia’s husband, Kendall Taylor, posted the news to the singer’s Instagram account and showed her in a hospital bed with a bandage covering her arm. “My wife experienced an accident today causing 2nd degree burns on her arm,” Taylor wrote on Instagram. “She’s steady asking the…
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Don Cheadle Makes It Clear Why He Hates Trump
Don Cheadle has become infamous on Twitter for his clapbacks and opinions about Putin’s Puppet, but his disgust for Donald Trump started way before his presidential run. On Saturday, Cheadle went to battle with Trump supporters after yet another one of Trump’s psychotic outbursts on Twitter, this time alleging that former President Barack Obama had…
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Black Female Pilots Stephanie Johnson, Dawn Cook Make History at Delta Air Lines
Delta pilots First Officer Dawn Cook and Capt. Stephanie Johnson ended Black History Month and brought in Women’s History Month on the right foot—or should we say the right flight—when they made history for Delta. The women became the first African-American women to make up the cockpit crew on one of Delta’s “mainline” flights. According…
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Rachel Dolezal Has Changed Her Name
Rachel Dolezal. Do I even need to remind you who she is? You know, the white Spokane, Wash., NAACP chapter leader who was passing as black, got outed by her lily-white parents and declared herself “transracial”; then said she’s really black, not white; and then went on to score a book deal but is now…
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Watch: Rihanna’s Humanitarian of the Year Award Acceptance Speech at Harvard
Bad gal RiRi was on hand at Harvard University on Tuesday night to accept her award for Humanitarian of the Year. “I’m incredibly humbled to be acknowledged at this magnitude for something that, in truth, I never wanted thanking for,” Rihanna said during her speech. “We are all human and we all just want a…
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