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Texas Teen Ebony Banks, Who Was Battling Cancer, Dies 4 Days After Meeting Beyoncé
Ebony Banks, a Texas teenager who was fighting stage 4 cancer, died Sunday, just four days after being able to meet with her idol, superstar Beyoncé Knowles. Ebony was undergoing treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston when she died, KHOU reports. The Alief Independent School District of Houston released the news of her…
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Tomi Lahren Permanently Banned From TheBlaze: Report
Well, in a stunning twist of irony, it turns out that conservatives won’t stand for Tomi Lahren being pro-choice or calling them out for being hypocrites on abortion laws. Just who exactly are the real snowflakes? According to the New York Post’s Page Six, the former conservative sweetheart is now permanently banned from Glenn Beck’s…
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SNL’s Michael Che Won’t Back Down From ‘Boston Being the Most Racist City’ Statement
Michael Che, the dry-witted co-host of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” said what he said about Beantown, and he meant it. And he told the city to its face. At a recent standup show at Boston University last week, Che told the crowd that he stands by a comment he made on SNL the night…
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Richard Sherman ‘Sure’ Colin Kaepernick Being Blackballed by NFL
Joining a widening chorus of those who have an opinion on the subject (President Donald Trump included), outspoken and sometimey cornerback Richard Sherman says that the NFL is on some b.s. when it comes to quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick, formerly of the San Francisco 49ers (a team he led to the Super Bowl a mere…
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#Flint: Cher Drops Out of Lifetime Movie Project Based on City Water Crisis
From the “Whew, glad that’s over” news file: Cher will no longer be a part of the Lifetime network’s Flint, a TV movie based on the nearly 3-year-old water crisis in the Michigan city. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the actress is dropping out of the project because of a family issue that would prevent…
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Remember That Football Player Who Said ‘Black Women Are Not Coachable’? He Was Out Here Catfishing White Women
Sometimes, saying, “This nigga … ” is the only appropriate response to a situation. Like when I heard Steve Harvey say that black people must learn to respect Donald Trump. As I walked to my garbage can to toss my radio into it, I reminisced over all the racist, xenophobic disrespect hurled at Barack Obama…
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Jay Z to Produce Docuseries and Film About Trayvon Martin
On the heels of Jay Z and the Weinstein Co. telling the story of Kalief Browder, the two are now teaming up to bring Trayvon Martin’s story to life via a TV docuseries and film. According to Variety, the six-part miniseries will delve into Trayvon’s life before he was killed by George Zimmerman, and his…
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Netflix’s Death Note Whitewashed Its Main Character; Social Media Isn’t Here for It
Netflix this week released its trailer for Death Note, a film based on the Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, and people aren’t too pleased with the casting choice for its main character. Death Note stars Nat Wolff, a white man, but the manga comic tells the story of a Japanese…
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Rachel Dolezal Says She Was ‘Too Black’ for Her Black Husband
Rachel Dolezal’s memoir was released last week, and in it, she discusses not only how she knew about blackness at an early age because of her grandmother’s National Geographic magazines, but also that she was treated like an indentured servant by her parents and was too black for her black husband. That pretty much sums…
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Howard University Satellite Campus to Open at Google Headquarters
Google has partnered with Howard University to launch a satellite campus at its Mountainview, Calif., headquarters. The company on Thursday announced its “Howard West” campus, which will offer a three-month residency for juniors and seniors in Howard’s computer science program. Although the students will not receive an internship salary (which averages about $6,600 a month),…