‘Iconic’ Rapper Implicated in “Jane’s” Diddy Trial Testimony
Trigger Warning…All of the Shocking Testimony From Diddy’s Federal Trial
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Embattled Shannon Sharpe Claps back At Nicki Minaj! Here’s What We Know?
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Serena and Venus Williams ‘Back Dat Azz Up’ in Leaked Video of Serena’s Wedding Reception
If you expected Serena Williams’ wedding reception to be a buttoned-up affair filled with stodgy old millionaires waltzing to a full symphony orchestra playing baroque music, you were wrong. If you haven’t heard by now, tennis star Serena Williams wed Reddit co-founder Alex Ohanian Thursday in a star-studded wedding in New Orleans. Even though my…
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Gabby Douglas Apologizes for Victim-Blaming Teammate; Social Media Declares She’s ‘Canceled’
On Friday morning, gymnast Aly Raisman shared a message about victim-blaming, on the heels of her coming forward and stating that she was sexually abused by a former USA Gymnastics team doctor. The gold-medal-winning gymnast reminded people that it doesn’t matter what women wear when it comes to sexual abuse and that the finger-pointing directed…
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Denzel Washington’s Roman J. Israel, Esq. Isn’t Exactly What You’re Expecting, but What You Might Need to See
I walked into Roman J. Israel, Esq. with an open mind. I knew that director Dan Gilroy’s previous film Nightcrawler was dark and gritty. I also knew that Denzel Washington, before his most recent appearance in Fences, had taken a leap into the world of dark and gritty with his award-winning performance in Training Day…
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Mudbound Is Another Exhausting Tale of Inequality and Racism in America, but at Least It Was Executed Properly
When there’s historical blackness in film, it’s usually displayed through slavery or Jim Crow. There’s never really any in between. But there is a very palpable significance in remembering, reliving and recognizing black history and respecting how far we’ve come (even though 2017 mirrors the past more times than we’re comfortable with). I guess that’s…
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‘She’s Gotta Have It’ … but Do We?
I remember the first time I saw She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee’s groundbreaking, critically acclaimed and very first “joint,” which premiered in 1986. When it debuted on HBO a year later, I was 12, a latchkey kid, and the parental controls that would lock me out of my parents’ premium channels after school had…
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Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian Wed in New Orleans
Tennis star Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are now married after a star-studded wedding in New Orleans on Thursday night. Just two years after their engagement, and 11 weeks after the birth of their daughter, the couple held the wedding at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, with guests who included Beyoncé,…
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Common Stars as His Own Comic Book Character, Caster
More black-nerd news: Common recently announced that he will create an original multimedia comic series called Caster. The series will be available exclusively on Line Webtoon’s site and app. Common will be creating an original score and song for the series and lending his likeness to the main character of Caster, a “man of exotic…
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Naija! Nigeria’s Women’s Bobsled Team Set to Hit 2018 Winter Olympics
Like Jamaica so many years ago, Nigeria will be represented at the Winter Olympics in bobsledding—but this time it’s the women’s team who qualified for the bobsled event at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. ESPN reports that driver Seun Adigun and brakemen Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga completed the fifth of their…
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The Akils Return With Black Lightning on the CW
It has been a banner year for those who love comics and negritude, and now there’s even more to celebrate! Black Lightning will debut on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 9 p.m. after The Flash on the CW. The Wrap reports on the backstory: As “Black Lightning” begins, Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a man wrestling…
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Is Nicki Minaj Being Slut Shamed for Her Paper Mag Cover?
So, Nicki Minaj has upped the ante on black female sexuality by shooting a pretty explicit Paper Magazine cover with herself in a menage a trois. In Paper magazine’s Winter 2017 #BreaktheInternet cover, the rapper appears to be eating her own p*ssy on the mag cover in three different looks. But what for some is…