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Golden State Warriors Deliver Perfect Response to Josh Duhamel’s Call for Draymond Green to Apologize to Fergie
This is why the expression “Don’t start none, won’t be none” exists. On Thursday, Josh Duhamel, during an interview with sports network FS1, called out Golden State Warriors’ forward Draymond Green for laughing while his ex-wife, Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, performed that wretched version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” during the NBA All-Star Game…
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Ethiopia Just Made History by Electing Its 1st Female President
History was made in Ethiopia on Thursday when former United Nations official Sahle-Work Zewde became the nation’s first woman to be elected president. The appointment of the veteran diplomat comes amidst a “pink wave” in Africa’s second-most populated country, with the full support of Ethiopia’s progressive new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, who was elected in…
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How Will the New FICO Scoring System Affect Blacks and People With Lower Incomes?
How good is your credit? Do you know your FICO score? How do you measure up when it comes to paying your bills and managing your debt? For the last two decades, the three major credit reporting companies—Experian, TransUnion and Equifax—have relied heavily on a scoring system created by the Fair Isaac Corporation—FICO—when reporting consumer…
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Voter Suppression Is Real and It Really Affects Black People
I think we all can agree that the 2018 midterm elections are critical. This means that our votes matter more now than ever. But what happens when you’ve registered and are ready to participate in this good ol’ democracy but can’t? Let’s talk about voter suppression. Voter suppression is simple—it’s a set of tactics used…
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The Misplaced Hysteria About a ‘Cancel Culture’ That Doesn’t Actually Exist
Similar to its predecessor “PC culture,” which is used to bemoan the mythical tyranny of political correctness, “cancel culture” has become a popular catch-all to describe a social-justice warrior agenda that some believe goes too far when challenging the status quo, saying that it threatens free speech and discourse. When a celebrity says something bigoted…
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Titanic II, A Replica of The Original Titanic, Is Set To Sail in 2022 And Will Be The Whitest Thing That Ever Happened
To my knowledge, I have never wanted to be white. I have, on occasion, pretended to be white, which is what happened sometimes when I worked at a telemarketing firm for almost 11 hours in 1998, hawking subscriptions to Redbook and Better Homes & Gardens. It has also happened when I’ve needed to call customer…
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Kobe Bryant Cut From Film Festival Jury After Blowback From 2003 Rape Case
Looks like that 2003 rape allegation has caught up to Kobe Bryant after all these years. Variety reports that the former five-time NBA world champion was cut by the Animation Is Film Festival jury last week, as a result of fallout from over his 15-year-old rape charge. Bryant won an Academy Award this year for his…
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Eric Reid vs. Malcolm Jenkins Is What Happens When Black Lives Matters Confronts All Lives Matter
To place Philadelphia Eagles Malcolm Jenkins in the proper historical context, just call him the Ralph Abernathy to Colin Kaepernick’s Martin Luther King Jr. Sure, Jenkins didn’t help the FBI in its attempts to discredit King’s voice by confirming King had extramarital affairs, which is what Abernathy did to King. But Jenkins caught the coattails…
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British Vogue’s Edward Enninful Threw Spike Lee a Blacktastic Party, and Our Invite Got Lost in the Mail
Clearly, we need to remind Edward Enninful of our address. On Saturday, Oct. 20, the editor-in-chief of British Vogue hosted a dinner for filmmaker Spike Lee in London, in honor of the BlacKkKlansman director “who has given so much to the creative industry over the three-and-a-half decades he has been working within it,” as written…