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#IfIWereWiretapped: Twitter Takes on Trump’s Conspiracy Theory
As we all know by now, Donald Trump claims he was wiretapped by former President Barack Obama. As we all know by now, Trump is uncouth, psychotic, sexist, racist and, unfortunately, the current president. Who knows what we’d hear on a Trump wiretap. Probably a lot of pussy-grabbing talk and calling people the n-word. But…
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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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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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Barry Jenkins Shares His Best Picture Speech He Didn’t Get to Use at the Oscars
If there were ever anyone deserving of an Oscar acceptance-speech do-over, that would be Moonlight director Barry Jenkins. As we all probably know, La La Land was announced as the Best Picture winner at the Oscars by accident, and Jenkins, in the rush of the moment, wasn’t granted the time to give an acceptance speech.…
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