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  • 5 Travel Accessories to Make Flying Less Frustrating

    Over the last few months, airplane travel has been on everyone’s radar. Unfortunately, it’s not because of extremely cheap airfares, but because several airlines and passengers have proved that the friendly skies aren’t that friendly. But what’s a person to do when you can’t just hop in your car and drive to the U.S. Virgin…

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  • 5 White Jurors Selected for Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Trial

    Bill Cosby arrived at the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh for the first day of jury selection in his sexual assault case Monday. At the conclusion of the day, five of 12 jurors were selected for Cosby’s sexual assault trial. The jury currently consists of a middle-aged white woman, a middle-aged white man whose sister…

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  • Woman Busted in Va. for Not Being ‘Homeless’ and Panhandling

    It seems as though the jig may be up for one Richmond, Va., woman who was allegedly posing as a homeless person and panhandling. Armed with a cellphone and noticing the unnamed woman panhandling on the road, a man followed her to a 2016 Fiat parked in a McDonald’s parking lot. And the confrontation began:…

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  • Biggie Smalls Mural Will Stay on NYC Building

    Last week a Brooklyn, N.Y., landlord threatened to remove a Biggie Smalls mural created by Spread Art NYC in order to make room for new windows. But on Monday, local activists reached an agreement with the landlord. The mural, which has been on the building in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood since 2015, was an eyesore and…

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  • DC Pop-Up Restaurant Removes ‘Pill Cosby’ Drink After Backlash

    Yeah, let’s make a drink that makes light of people getting drugged. That’s exactly what the folks behind Washington, D.C.’s newest pop-up/fad/bar Diet Starts Monday did when they introduced their “Pill Cosby” tequila drink. The cocktail, complete with empty pill capsules, was an ode to Bill Cosby’s drugging and rape allegations. Sure, the bar thought…

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  • The Church of Satan Says ‘Orb’ Photo Isn’t a Satanic Ritual

    Twitter had a field day when Donald Trump, Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi placed their hands on a glowing globe. Sure, it looked like something out of an Illuminati playbook, or something you’d find at a satanic ritual. But don’t fret; according to the Twitter account of…

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  • Drake Wins Billboard Top Artist Award, Breaking Record With 13 Wins

    Drake took home 13 awards during Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, also dubbed the most boring award show in the world; it left people asking questions like, “Who is this Dollar Tree Rihanna performing?” Drake’s biggest win of the night came when he won the Top Artist award, beating Adele, Rihanna, Beyoncé, the Chainsmokers, Ariana…

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  • Harvard Student Submits Rap Album as Senior Thesis

    Obasi Shaw took his Harvard thesis to another level when he dropped the school’s first rap thesis album with Liminal Minds. The senior English major, who graduates this week, said it took a year to write the album, which draws inspiration from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and today’s current race issues. “Black people in America are…

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  • Sasheer Zamata Set to Leave Saturday Night Live

    After four seasons on Saturday Night Live, Sasheer Zamata is leaving the show, according to Entertainment Tonight. Zamata became a player on SNL during the height of the controversy surrounding the show’s lack of diversity. Zamata was the first black woman to be cast on the show since Maya Rudolph’s exit in 2007. Zamata’s characters on…

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