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Living in Her Truth: Oprah Admits What She Was Really Thinking While Tasting that Tasteless Chicken
By now, we’ve all seen it (if not, you should); a now-viral vintage clip of Oprah doing her talk show host best not to spit out a guest’s unseasoned-yet-million dollar prize-winning chicken (because, white judges) on her now-defunct hit daytime show (R.I.P. Oprah show. You are still missed). The clip, filmed in 2006, was revived…
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Tumblr Announced They’re Banning Adult Content, So … Do We Still Need Tumblr?
In 2007, David Karp founded Tumblr and essentially introduced the term “microblog” to mainstream culture. Its intended purpose was for users to be able to share multiple forms of media, as well as each other’s short-form blogs. Then, one day, we all looked up and Tumblr had become the social media equivalent of PornHub. You…
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Brett Favre, Soulja Boy Tricked Into Recording Videos For White Supremacist Group
A group of celebrities… and Soulja Boy were duped into recording video messages with anti-semitic dog whistles for a hate group, under the pretense that the messages were for a veterans group. According to Buzzfeed, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre; slightly off-center comedian Andy Dick and legendary Supermanner of hoes Soulja Boy were…
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Korryn Gaines, Color of Change and How We Know Facebook Doesn’t Care About Black People
She said the “devil” was at her door. When the Baltimore County Police Department officers arrived at the home of Korryn Gaines on Aug. 1, 2017, she knew she might be killed. Holding her phone in one hand and a shotgun in the other, Gaines figured that her only defense against being killed in front…
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Mariah Carey Posts Pic With Kaepernick—and Social Media Promptly Forgets She's Black
“One Sweet Day,” folks are going to get out of their “Emotions,” admit the real reason they’re so “Obsessed” with Colin Kaepernick and why they kneel, and recognize him as the “Hero” he’s been in making a portion of otherwise complacent NFL lovers more conscious about racism and police brutality. What can I say? I…
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Harpo, Who Dis Doll? An $1,100 Idris Elba Doll Fail Debuts—and Hilarity Ensues
Stringer Bell did not die for this. In an obscene case of “WTF were they thinking?” a British doll manufacturer thought they would capitalize on the crowning of Idris Elba as People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” by creating a doll in his honor. And whew, Lord … the layers on that mistake. First of…
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Exclusive: Jada Pinkett Smith and Her Mom, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, on the Return of Red Table Talk … Now With Will Smith
If your Facebook timeline is like mine, you didn’t have to find Red Table Talk, Jada Pinkett Smith’s “life lesson” talk show with her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, and daughter, Willow Smith; it found you. Since its premiere on May 7, the show has struck a deep chord with so many of us. Whether it’s Jada…
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It’s #NationalBossDay, So Let Me Shout Out the Amazing Bosses in My Life
According to the currently trending hashtag on Twitter, today is National Boss Day. If you browse through the tweets in that hashtag, there are plenty of memes of gifs with people cracking jokes at the expense of those they report to on a daily basis. It’s not easy having a boss that you don’t necessarily…
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#BadThingsToTellPolice Is Trending on Twitter Right Now
You know what’s a bad thing to tell the police? “Hello, police? There’s a black person standing/sitting/talking/living (in other words, minding their own business) here, and I’m scared/uncomfortable/suspicious of why they are here (because I don’t believe black people belong in otherwise white spaces). Send help.”
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In New Rambling Message, Kanye West Blames Social Media for ‘Mind Control,’ Calls Himself ‘Best Living Recording Artist’
After going dark on social media for the past week, Kanye West is back on Twitter to share a long, rambling missive that, like most things Kanye has done in the past year, likely does more to raise concern over Kanye’s well-being than it does enlighten his audience. Much of the 10-minute video, which the…
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