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Beyoncé Performs at Indian Billionaire's Family Wedding Festivities
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter continues her lifelong practice of playing in our faces and just performed a mini-concert at a pre-wedding bash for the daughter of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. Ambani’s daughter, Isha Ambani, has now set the bar for weddings unrealistically high. She’s had Beychella at her wedding. She’s won. That’s it. Game over.…
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'Slave Bible' Converted Slaves to Christianity by Omitting Parts That Could Lead to Uprising
A new exhibit at a Washington, D.C., museum featuring an abridged version of the Bible sheds light on how Christian missionaries converted enslaved Africans to Christianity by teaching them the Gospel… except the parts about freedom, equality and resistance. According to NPR, Parts of the Holy Bible, Selected For the Use of the Negro Slaves,…
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Can You Feel A Brand New Fail: 'Sloppy' Performance of The Wiz Has Customers Demanding Refunds
Someone did The Wiz wrong, y’all. The 1974 all-black musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz recently ran at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Ky., to unsatisfactory results. According to The Courier Journal, tickets for the Island Entertainment KC-produced show at the center’s Brown Theatre ranged from $35 to $65. The…
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Michelle Williams and Chad Johnson Call It Quits
Michelle Williams said yes, but alas, Jesus said no—and she and now former fiancé Chad Johnson have called it quits. Michelle, take a minute girl, come sit down and tell us what’s been happening. We’ve come too far for you to feel alone! After a relationship has ended, it has become social media protocol to…
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Art and Activism Create Darker Gods for Art Basel Miami
Activism and art are frequently complimentary forces, but a new exhibit at Miami’s Art Basel brings the two together in a visionary new way. Artist Damon Davis is using sound, photography, film, illustration and written word to reframe and deify blackness—specifically, the ways in which the media represents and fetishizes blackness and black pain—in his…
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Not So Insecure: Yvonne Orji Inks Book Deal
Molly made it! Yvonne Orji has signed a new deal with Flatiron Books and will be penning a faith-based book called Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams (and 20 Lessons I Learned Along the Way), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The book will provide advice to women, with…
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For Parents Whose Blood Pressure Gets Raised Because of Product Recalls When ’Tussin and Wine Ain’t Enough
I was driving my daughter to school this morning, gleefully coasting across the Washington, D.C., area’s Woodrow Wilson Bridge, named after possibly the most racist president of all time, a true accomplishment considering that several presidents actually owned slaves, when my phone buzzed. Like many folks, I get an alarming (no pun intended) number of…
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Charles ‘Chuck’ Harrison, the Most Important Person You Never Heard Of, Dead at 87
The man once called the “Jackie Robinson of design,” who invented so many products that Sears changed its policy on hiring blacks; who created many of the household items you take for granted, has passed away at the age of 87. Charles “Chuck” Harrison is considered the greatest black industrial designer who ever lived, and…
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20 New Things I Know About You If You're a Black Man Still Watching the NFL
What if Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones walked onto his insanely gaudy field on game day Sunday and openly whipped a black player’s naked back? Or, what if Washington’s football team owner announced that he was finally going to succumb to accusations that his team’s name was racially insensitive and would now refer to his…