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Watch This: 'Keep Your Business Off of Facebook'
God sees everything — including your Facebook pages. This is the message in a gospel song about Facebook that has recently gone viral. During a church service, the choir sent a word of caution to the congregation: “Keep your business off of Facebook.” The video of the performance has since gone viral, and that’s a…
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Black Twitter Versus Regal Cinema
(The Root) — Black Twitter is on the warpath after two people tweeted about a disturbing experience at a Regal Cinema in Silver Spring, Md., Saturday night. This morning, moviegoers Tiffany and Alan tweeted their “utter disgust” after what they say happened during their viewing of Lee Daniels’ The Butler. They tweeted of doubled security…
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Daycare Workers Fired Over Instagram Posts
(The Root) — Some people in Newport News, Va., seem to have forgotten how easy it is to get fired for things put on the Internet, and now find themselves out of a job. Two daycare workers were fired after posting pictures to their Instagram accounts mocking the children left in their charge. One posted…
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Twitter Takes on White Privilege in Feminism
(The Root) — Helping someone recognize their privilege is always a difficult, uncomfortable process. This is especially true for women of color, who often have to educate white women on the racial privilege they enjoy in the course of pushing against the misogyny they all face. The trending topic #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, which trended nationally for two…
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Kendrick Lamar Takes Over Twitter
(The Root) — Big Sean gave the Internet a day’s worth of conversation and debate fodder last night when he released “Control,” a song featuring Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. At least, we think Jay Electronica and Big Sean are on the track. Kendrick Lamar did his very best to make sure that he’d be…
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MSNBC Declares: 'Whitey Found Guilty'
(The Root) — A screenshot taken during Touré’s MSNBC show The Cycle, bearing the official announcement “Whitey found guilty,” has been floating around the Internet. Condemned for years in the public eye by citizens, activists and entertainers, Whitey was convicted today of first-degree hoodwinking and bamboozling. The fruits of our ancestors’ labor have finally paid…
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Tumblr 'Joke' Lands Student in Hot Water
A 20-year-old college student may face prison time for “making terroristic threats” and hefty fines after posting “an experimental literary piece and an art project” on his Tumblr page. Caleb Clemmons, a psychology major at Georgia Southern University, was arrested within hours of publishing an entry on his blog that read “i plan on shooting…
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Happy Birthday, Hip-Hop!
(The Root) — On this date in 1973, DJ Kool Herc threw his first party in the Bronx, N.Y. For the low, low price of $0.50 ($0.25 for the ladies), partygoers could listen and dance to a new sound that would soon take the world by storm: hip-hop. DJ Kool Herc is recognized as the…
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Dwight Howard Slams Hater on Twitter
It began as a normal day in cyberspace. Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard was online, minding his own business, engaging in some light banter with fans on Twitter, and everything on Earth was as it should have been. Suddenly, a menacing shadow spread like spilled ink across the horizon. The fate of the warm, sunny…
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Sam Jackson: 'Open Season' on Black Men
(The Root) — On the heels of yesterday’s ruling that charges will not be brought against a New York police officer accused of shooting an unarmed black teen, actor Samuel L. Jackson took to Twitter to voice his opinion. “Young brothers Beware!!” he tweeted. “It’s Open Season!” Eighteen-year-old Ramarley Graham was shot and killed in…