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WWE Honors Martin Luther King Jr. and Tyler Perry
Back in the day, when I was a fan of everything WWF (now WWE), I had just about every wrestling action figure you could imagine. My younger brother and I would put on our version of Royal Rumble and WrestleMania using our action figures against my sisters’ Barbies. So needless to say, wrestling will always…
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Bishop Eddie Long’s Sexual Abuse Accusers to Release Book
Over five years ago, Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande broke their silence when it came to the sexual abuse they say they experienced at the hands of Bishop Eddie Long. LeGrande and Parris were two of four former members of Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., who filed a lawsuit against Long.…
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T.I. Pens Open Letter to Donald Trump About Injustice
T.I. is no longer bitter about Donald Trump’s election win. Now he’s just trying to get “better.” In an open letter posted on Rolling Stone, the Atlanta rapper asked the Oompa Loompa-elect about his plans for the injustice so many Americans face: As I share my thoughts, I want to first say that it’s easy…
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Steve Harvey Said Asian Men Are Not Attractive
Yes, that Steve Harvey. During a recent episode of The Steve Harvey Show, the relationship-advice peddler and ruiner of Family Feud didn’t have too many nice things to say about Asian men. As he held up the book How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men, he asked his audience a…
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Tracee Ellis Ross, Donald Glover, Viola Davis, Moonlight Win Big at the Golden Globes
Not only did black Hollywood shine during Sunday night’s Golden Globes, but one actress also made history. Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross won a Golden Globe Sunday for Best Actress—Television Series Musical or Comedy and became the first black woman to win in that category since 1983, when Debbie Allen won it for Fame. Ross’ acceptance speech…
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Here's What Happened When Yahoo! Finance Tweeted, ‘Trump Wants a Much N–ger Navy’
The person who runs Yahoo! Finance’s Twitter account should probably learn how to proofread the tweets before either scheduling them or sending them out live. In a tweet that was simply supposed to state that Donald Trump wants a bigger Navy, it actually said something totally different: Yeah, we’re pretty sure Trump would want anything…
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President Obama's Last White House Party Will Include Beyoncé, Oprah and Jay Z
Ain’t no party like a White House party … well, that’s been the case for the last eight years; I’m not quite sure what’s going to happen during the next four. If you haven’t had the privilege to attend one of the Obamas’ White House soirees, well, you’ve definitely missed out, and if you’re not…
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Shirley Caesar Defends Kim Burrell
Editor’s note: This post contains tweets that some may find offensive. These church ladies are downright hilarious. First, there was Kim Burrell’s sermon about how gay people were all going to die and go to hell, and now, her compadre in Holy Ghost, Shirley Caesar, is oddly defending Burrell and blaming President Barack Obama for making…
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Kim Burrell's Ellen Appearance Canceled
Ellen DeGeneres has spoken. And after going on a homophobic rant during a sermon, Kim Burrell will not be appearing on DeGeneres’ talk show. In her rant, Burrell referred to “the perverted homosexual spirit,” and that didn’t sit well with plenty of people, including Pharrell Williams and DeGeneres. Burrell was supposed to appear on Ellen: The…
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KKK Members Say A&E Paid Them to Fake Scenes in Canceled Series
Ku Klux Klan leaders are now speaking out against A&E after the network canceled its controversial docuseries, Escaping the KKK: A Documentary Series Exposing Hate in America. The series, which was supposed to air Jan. 10, was canceled, not because of the backlash it received for normalizing hate, but because it was disclosed that some participants…
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