Black Excellence
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Simone Biles Is Still Making History, Is 1st Woman to Win 5 U.S. All-Around Championships
It’s still Simone Biles season, and the American gymnast is still kicking ass and taking names, which culminated in yet another historic career achievement at this year’s United States Gymnastics Championships on Sunday. The U.S. Olympic team declared that Biles is the first woman to ever win five U.S. Gymnastics all-around titles (h/t Bleacher Report.)…
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The Last National Anthem
Aretha Franklin was not the Queen of Soul music. Although it is named after the music genre that emerged in the ’50s, all music is soul music. Jazz is soul music. Hip-hop is soul music. I imagine that there is someone right now eating a double kale club sandwich with extra mayo, drinking an avocado-flavored…
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Serena Williams Opens Up About Struggling with Motherhood and Her Comeback in Time Magazine Spread
Serena Williams, the Greatest of All Time, has been quite open and frank about her life as she grows as a mom. From the terrifying experiences during the birth of her daughter, Alexis Olympia, to coming back to the tennis world, through grappling with archaic laws that seeded her lower simply because she gave birth,…
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Taraji P. Henson Creates Mental Health Foundation to Honor Late Father
Taraji P. Henson wants to remove the stigma surrounding mental health issues in the African-American community and has created an organization to honor her late father who suffered from mental health issues. On September 22, the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, named after her father, officially launches. “I named the organization after my father because of…
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Kevin Hart Partners With the United Negro College Fund, Knowledge Is Power Program to Launch $600,000 Scholarship Program
We love a benevolent celebrity who supports education, and Kevin Hart joins the ranks of those like Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj to help support the continued education of deserving students. The actor and comedian has partnered with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) through his Help from the…
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People are Actually Hating on LeBron James' I Promise School Because … You Know Why
I imagine that there is an undiscovered ancient text penned by one of the lesser-known apostles that recounts the life of Yeshua from a unique perspective. And, according to the Gospel of Antwan, when the disciples passed out plates of whiting and hush puppies to the multitude that showed up at Jesus’ open-invitation fish fry,…
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Things Black People Say When You Might Be About to Catch Those Hands But You're Not Quite Sure
If the “Aiight. Bet” is accompanied by a lack of eye contact and a slight head nod—and not a shy lack of eye contact but eyes that are clearly focused on something else—run. Don’t ask questions. Don’t wait for clarification. Just run. Same. Same, again. Thus ends the famed and dreaded “Aiight Foursome.” The irony…