Social Media
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Only at an HBCU Will You Go Viral for Getting Crossed Up by Your School President
Look, bruh. I get it. About seven or eight growth spurts ago, when I was like 13 years old, I remember hitting up the other New York—I think it was Nyack, to be specific—to visit cousins I haven’t seen since. During that trip, me and my cousin, Joe, used to spend our mornings fucking up…
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Conservatives' Wet-Ass-Preoccupation With 'WAP' Leads to an Epic Back-and-Forth Between Cardi B and Candace Owens
The sanctimonious obsession with a popular song about moistened muffs continues! Thanks to this past weekend’s Grammys telecast, conservatives can continue to not care about the domestic terrorism displayed at a whole national monument and divert that energy to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP!” What a life! The two award-winning rappers gave quite…
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Lil Nas X Has the Horses and Receipts in the Back in Response to Tekashi69's Homophobia
Lil Nas X could teach a master class on how to effectively navigate social media. March has already kicked off in a way that gives a double-meaning to the term “March Madness”—and the 21-year-old hit sensation is adding to the shenanigans. However, a rapper who looks like a Lisa Frank sticker-pack-reject started it. Earlier this…
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Make It Rain With TwitCoins: Is There Anyone You'd Pay to Read Their 'Super' Tweets?
If you’re an active member of the Black Twitter community, chances are you’ve heard some variation of the phrase, “How is Twitter free?!” after something super dramatic and entertaining happens, rivaling the best television show during sweeps. Well, bitch, we’re about to find out how free it’s not. Along with introducing a community feature (similar…
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TikTok Launches Incubator Program Featuring 100 Black Creators Up for the Challenge
If you’re immersed in the TikTok world, you are intimately familiar with challenges. Whether your challenge is being a savage or a renegade, throwing it down to bussit or even swaying sexily to a silhouette, a TikTok user is always down to create trendy content. Hell, y’all are so good at it, we have a…
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What I Hear on Clubhouse: For Black People, Will Silicon Valley’s Hot New Thing Be More Terrordome Than Mecca?
What happens when everyone is an “expert?” How to navigate a world where everyone’s “insights,” no matter how dubious, are cloaked in corporate-speak, strenuously hyped by like-minded cohorts, then injected straight into your brain via a mechanism intentionally designed to push your emotional buttons? And how much do you think your ideas and energy are…
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'This Lacks Respect and Tact': Vanessa Bryant Calls Out Meek Mill for His Kobe Lyric
Vanessa Bryant has spoken out against Meek Mill’s lyric referencing the late Kobe Bryant, which she believes was “disrespectful.” The widow of the late NBA legend, who also lost their daughter, Gianna, in the tragic helicopter crash last January took to Instagram to directly call out the “Dreams and Nightmares” rapper, expressing her disappointment with…
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How Is Black Twitter Reacting to Meek Mill's Song Referencing Kobe Bryant? Spoiler Alert: It's 'Going Bad'
Meek Mill has famously rapped about his “Dreams & Nightmares.” Well, this new song of his may just be a plain nightmare for him. On Wednesday, a snippet of his untitled song with Lil Baby began to surface on social media and there was one particular lyric that stood out like the sorest of thumbs.…
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JetBlue Fires Employee Who Sparked Hostage Rumors Because She Had to Quarantine in Jamaica After Positive COVID Test
People have been carrying on with a whole lot of foolery in the year since the coronavirus pandemic has taken the world by storm, and sad to say, Black people have not been exempt from carrying out this foolery. In fact, one of the wildest stories I’ve heard during these unreal COVID-19 times is that…
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Facebook Watch to Premiere New Black History Month Special Featuring Erykah Badu, Chance the Rapper, John Legend, and More
In honor of Black History Month, on Tuesday, Facebook Watch will premiere Forward: The Future of Black Music, a new musical special that looks at the legacy, impact and future of Black music. Forward: The Future of Black Music, which comes from Jesse Collins Entertainment, will feature several dynamic pairs including Yara Shahidi and Neelam;…