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Tomi Lahren Settles Lawsuit Against Glenn Beck and TheBlaze
Tomi Lahren has settled her lawsuit against former employer Glenn Beck and his website TheBlaze. According to the Dallas Morning News, Lahren is now free to go about her hate-spewing life after being released from her contract four months early. Lahren, who says she was suspended because of her pro-choice views, filed the lawsuit last…
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You Can Now Own a Gabby Douglas Barbie
Gabby Douglas’ Barbie is officially available for purchase as part of Mattel’s Shero collection, which highlights women who break boundaries. Douglas’ doll wears a red-white-and-blue leotard, and according to Mattel, Douglas was involved in the design process. “It looks exactly like me,” said Douglas in a press release. “It was a really fun process.” Douglas…
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La. Teachers Accused of Bullying and Starting Elementary School Fight Club
Anne Shelvin, 44, and Tracy Gallow, 50, two teachers at Washington Elementary School, in Opelousas, La., were arrested last week after starting what school officials are referring to as a “fight club.” St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said that a student’s mother complained that Shelvin bullied her 11-year-old child, told the student to “go…
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Ne-Yo Invests $2,300,000 Into Coding School
R&B singer and producer Ne-Yo is stepping into the tech space and has invested $2.3 million into the Holberton School for full-stack engineers. Ne-Yo hopes to help people from underrepresented groups learn to code. “Everybody knows that tech and all these things are the wave of the future,” Ne-Yo told Tech Crunch. “I just love the…
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Katy Perry Gets Dragged for Barack Obama Joke
Katy Perry made a joke on Instagram over the weekend, and some say it was disrespectful to former President Barack Obama. Perry replied to a fan’s Instagram Live comment about her hair. “Oh, someone says, ‘I miss your old black hair,’” Perry said in her video. “Oh, really? Do you miss Barack Obama, as well?…
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White Reporter Resigns After Using N-Word in Twitter Direct-Messaging Convo
Valerie Hoff, a veteran reporter with Atlanta’s 11Alive news, resigned over the weekend after trying to get the scoop on a video of a white cop punching a black man turned into her using the n-word in conversation with the man who posted the video to social media. On April 13, Curtis Rivers posted a…
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Prince’s Family Members Planning a Reality Show: Report
On the eve of the anniversary of Prince’s death, Deliverance, an unauthorized EP, was released by George Ian Boxill, and now the singer’s family is trying to stop it from being released again. But they may have other plans for the song. Reality-TV-show plans, to be exact. According to a new report by TMZ, family…
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Delta Pilot Punches Woman to ‘De-Escalate’ a Fight
Flying the friendly skies seems quite passé nowadays. From crying passengers being dragged off planes to others not being able to pee when they have to, it was only a matter of time before those friendly skies turned into the fight club. And on April 21, that’s exactly what happened on a Delta Airlines flight…
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Whitney: Can I Be Me Succeeds in Not Exploiting but Celebrating Whitney Houston’s Life
As the Tribeca Film Festival rolls through New York City this week and next, perhaps no film has been more anticipated or controversial than Whitney: Can I Be Me , an inside look at troubled pop icon Whitney Houston. At the world premiere of the film Wednesday evening, directors Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal (no relation…
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Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival Is Half Hunger Games, Half Lord of the Flies
Update: April 28, 2017 3:52 p.m. est: Ja Rule has issued a statement on Twitter saying his event was not a scam and he’s doing everything in his power to make it right: Earlier: People expecting a luxurious music festival with performances by Blink-182 and Migos and a Kardashian appearance paid upward of $12,000 to…
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