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Snapchat Slammed for Bob Marley Blackface Filter to Celebrate 420
Today is 420, National Weed Day. The unofficial day to celebrate marijuana. If it’s your thing, so be it. I’m not here to judge. But plenty of people are now judging the motives of Snapchat. In honor of 420, the popular video app added a Bob Marley filter to its lineup. Yes, because apparently Bob…
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#Throwback: Della Reese Remembers Redd Foxx’s Death and How The Royal Family Producer Demeaned Him
Once in a while the Internet will allow you to reminisce about the good old days of television. One of my all-time favorite comedians will always be Redd Foxx. Although I started listening to his records at a young age, when I really had no business doing so, Foxx’s humor and comedic trash-talking were what…
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Dame Dash on Aaliyah’s Death: ‘If I Was There … It Probably Would Have Been Different’
Dame Dash is speaking out about the death of his late girlfriend, R&B singer Aaliyah, almost 15 years after her death. During an appearance on The Real, airing Tuesday, Dash says things would have been different if he had been there. On a recent episode of Family Therapy With Dr. Jenn, Dash stated that Aaliyah’s…
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If Hillary Clinton Really Wanted to Be ‘Down,’ She Would Have Mentioned Frank’s RedHot Sauce
Hillary Clinton has been on a roll recently. A pandering roll, some might say. She was seen playing dominoes last week, and—gasp—she actually won. Or got lucky. And then there’s her recent appearance on The Breakfast Club with Charlamagne tha God and company. During Clinton’s interview, she told the crew that she keeps hot sauce…
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More Men Come Forward to Accuse Afrika Bambaataa of Sex Abuse
All it took was for one man to come forward and speak about alleged sexual abuse by Afrika Bambaataa. When Ronald Savage told his horrid story of the numerous times he says the hip-hop pioneer sexually abused him when he was a teenager, he got the world’s attention. And now, in an interview with the New…
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Afrika Bambaataa Comments on Sexual Assault Allegations
Last week, Ronald “Bee Stinger” Savage came forward with his story of sexual assault at the hands of rap pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. Savage, 50, alleged that the rapper had molested him several times, starting when Savage was 15 years old. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Savage said he was speaking out in order…
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Underground Recap: Troubled Water
No one said running was going to be easy. And Noah (Aldis Hodge), Rosalee (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Henry (Renwick Scott) and Cato (Alano Miller) have figured that out for themselves the hard way. Although they all have one goal in mind, there’s friction among the group, and it looks as though everyone is turning on one…
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Kobe Bryant Scores 60 Points in Last Game; Final Words Are ‘Mamba Out’
Everyone knew the day would come, and Wednesday night, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers played his last game in the NBA. The sold-out Staples Center got a show as Bryant scored a season high of 60 points, which catapulted the struggling team to a win over the Utah Jazz. In the stands were…
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A Year Later, Rachel Dolezal Is Still Here and Writing a Book About Race
It’s been a year since the world was force-fed the racial antics, orange tan and kinky wig of Rachel Dolezal. How can we forget the white woman who posed as a black woman and worked her way through an NAACP chapter in Spokane, Wash.? Not only did Dolezal lie about her race to her colleagues,…
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Radio Veteran Doug Banks Dies at 57
Radio and television veteran Doug Banks has died at the age of 57. Although the cause of death hasn’t been released, many have speculated that his death was due to diabetes complications. The Philadelphia-born, Detroit-raised Banks got his start doing local radio but was soon hosting his own syndicated show, The Doug Banks Morning Show,…
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