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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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President Oprah Winfrey?
It seems as though Oprah Winfrey may be having second thoughts about whether or not she could really become president. Well, you know, since you don’t need political experience anymore. In an interview with financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein, Winfrey said it now does seem like something she could do. Rubenstein mentioned the fact that…
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Just Kickin’ It: Xscape Announces Reunion
In 1992, four girls from Atlanta signed to Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def imprint. Tamika and LaTocha Scott, Kandi Burruss and Tameka “Tiny” Harris went on to become the recording group Xscape, and their debut album, Hummin’ Comin at Cha, which had hit singles such as “Just Kickin’ It” and “Understanding,” became their first of…
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Lakeith Stanfield Calls Armond White a ‘Bitch’ for Ruining Get Out’s Perfect Rotten Tomato Score
If Armond White’s grandmother made a movie, he’d probably give it a negative review if everyone else liked it. It’s fine to have a different opinion about a movie, but it seems as though White has made a career out of being a contrarian. And as the young people would say, he’s the definition of…
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Viola Davis Named Harvard Artist of the Year
Viola Davis is a national treasure. And even before her Oscar win Sunday, Harvard University had named Davis its Artist of the Year. On March 4, Davis will accept the Harvard Foundation’s arts medal during the 32nd annual Cultural Rhythms Festival in Memorial Hall’s Sanders Theatre. “The students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation are…
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Moonlight Stars Are Now Calvin Klein Models
Where’s a church fan when you need one? Better yet, where’s an industrial-sized fan? The stars of Moonlight are giving people something else to talk about, and it’s all Calvin Klein’s fault. Trevante Rhodes, Mahershala Ali and even the movie’s younger stars, Ashton Sanders and Alex Hibbert, are posing in their Calvins. The cast of…
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Congrats to Mahershala Ali, Viola Davis, Ezra Edelman, Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney for Their Oscar Wins!
Mahershala Ali set the tone for the evening as he walked onstage to accept the first award of the night. Ali, who won for best supporting actor in Moonlight, made history as he became the first Muslim actor to ever win an Academy Award. “I want to thank my teachers, my professors,” Ali said. “One…
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