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Issa Rae, Maxine Waters, Solange and More Honored at Black Girls Rock!
Melanin was poppin’ during Tuesday night’s airing of Black Girls Rock! on BET. U.S Rep. Auntie Maxine Waters, Issa Rae, Solange Knowles and Yara Shahidi were among the women celebrated for their achievements at the annual award show created by Beverly Bond. Waters, being the showstopper that she is, delivered a standing-ovation-causing speech after she…
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Bill Cosby Retrial Postponed Until 2018
After a revamping of his defense team, Bill Cosby’s sexual assault and drugging retrial has been postponed until the spring. Cosby, who recently hired Michael Jackson’s former lawyer Tom Mesereau, was supposed to head back to court Nov. 6, but the judge has postponed jury selection until mid-March, according to ABC News. Cosby’s June trial…
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Mented Cosmetics Has the Perfect Lip Gloss for Women of Color
Earlier this summer, The Root highlighted New York City-based Mented Cosmetics and its endeavors to create nude lipsticks for women of color. The black-woman-owned company now has a new lip-gloss line that’s sure to rival its lipsticks. Harvard Business School grads K.J. Miller and Amanda E. Johnson are the women behind Mented, and in a…
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Washed-Up Confederate-Flag Waver Who Stole Black Music Says ‘Fuck Colin Kaepernick’
You know how sometimes you forget a person’s name even though you can see his or her face in your mind’s eye? How you can remember everything about the person, except his or her name? That’s the exact state of mental purgatory in which I find myself as I write this. I’m sure it’ll come…
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Lil’ Kim Uses Hollywood Medium to Contact Biggie: Would He Even Recognize His ‘Soul Mate’?
We all have that one person from our past whom we probably consider a “soul mate.” That one person you thought you were meant to be with. The one person with whom you thought you shared a bond tighter than superglue. That one person who verbally and physically abused you so bad that you went…
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New R. Kelly Accuser Violates Nondisclosure Agreement With Underage-Sex Claims
Jerhonda Johnson says she was a starstruck 15-year-old when she first met R. Kelly. Johnson didn’t meet him at a concert, or at her high school, where Kelly was allegedly known to troll. Johnson met Kelly while on daily watch outside his child-pornography trial in 2008. In a new report for BuzzFeed News, Jim DeRogatis…
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Donald Trump Looked Directly Into the Eclipse and Unfortunately Did Not Spontaneously Combust
If there was one thing I wished to happen during all of this eclipse hoopla, it was for Donald Trump to somehow spontaneously combust after looking at it directly. Little did I realize that the president, like many other people, would be dumb enough to look directly at the eclipse without eye protection. But, of…
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Bill Cosby Is Putting Together a ‘Dream Team’ to Defend Him During His November Retrial on Sexual Assault Charges
Bill Cosby is hard at work putting together a “dream team” of attorneys to represent him in November at his retrial in Pennsylvania for sexual assault charges. The comedian has hired an attorney who previously represented Michael Jackson. The Associated Press reports that the 80-year-old Cosby is rebuilding his legal team after the lawyers from…
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Petition Proposes Replacing Confederate Statue in Va. With a Statue of Missy Elliott; Here’s Where You Can Sign
The internet can be a dark and enraging place sometimes, but every once in a while, there is a ray of light in this darkness: This time, that beautiful spark of greatness comes in the form of a petition to replace a Confederate statue with one of Missy Elliott. The Change.org petition proposes removing a…