Ananda Lewis, Television Host and Model, Dies Following a Long Breast Cancer Fight
Two Days Before Trial, Crucial Evidence is Lost in Decade-Old Cold Case
A Famous Supermodel Just Endorsed Blue Ivy’s On-Stage Catwalk
What’s Happening In Rockland, NY Could Be the Beginning of the End Of Trump’s Reign, Many Americans Believe
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Rap Responds to Derrion Albert's Murder
Big news for the Chi. Tuesday, MTV will be bringing Sway and the rest of their crew to Chicago to film a two-hour segment to help curb violence in Chicago. As part of this segment, David Banner, 9th Wonder, Naledge, Twista, Rhymefest and Skooda Chose are teaming up to shoot a video for their collaboration…
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Breaking the Last Racial Taboo?
There’s nothing more traditional in American politics than the wholesome family portrait: a beaming candidate, beaming spouse,reluctantly beaming teenagers. But when Bill de Blasio, a candidate for public office in New York City this fall, put his family in hiscampaign mailings and TV ads, there was nothing routine about it. De Blasio’s wife of 15…
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Beat It!
We wouldn’t endorse a video game endorsed by rappers simply because they’re endorsed by rappers. We’d be crazy to. Wu-Tang‘s Shaolin Style in 1999? Funkmaster Flex‘s Funkmaster Flex Digital Hitz Factory in 2004? Fiddy‘s 50 Cent: Bulletproof in 2005? Not exactly classic games. But Beaterator ($40), a collaboration between superproducer Timbaland and Rockstar Games, now…
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So Fresh and So Clean
Remember that feeling? The first day of school, slipping your feet into a fresh-out-the-box pair of penny loafers—no one could tell you anything. And, apparently no one can tell fashionista Chloë Sevigny anything either. The actress known for her roles in American Psycho (2000, Lions Gate) and HBO’s Big Love has funneled inspiration from her Connecticut…
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Love in the Time of the Obamas
I. Another Washington dusk, another motorcade, another intimate evening played out in public view. On Oct. 3, just a day after their failed Olympics bid in Copenhagen, Barack and Michelle Obama slipped into a Georgetown restaurant for one of their now-familiar date nights: this time, to toast their 17th wedding anniversary. As with their previous…
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Michael Steele's Glass House
The real question Americans are asking is, “What has President Obama actually accomplished?”… It is unfortunate that the president’s star power has outshined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights. One thing is certain — President Obama won’t be receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility,…
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A Few Reasons No One Seems To Be Pushing Rangel Around?
Last week, the House ethics panel voted to expand its investigation into Charlie Rangel’s finances for the third time since the probe began. The Harlem congressman has been plagued by numerous ethics problems, to the point that he even asked the ethics committee to look into behavior last year in an attempt to save face—this…
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Will Smith Is No Fred Williamson
Michael Jai White has always been one of those “that’s-that-one-guy-you-know-who-I’m-talking-about” actors. Despite a breakout 1995 role as Mike Tyson in the HBO biopic Tyson, and most recently a part in Tyler Perry’s 2007 Why Did I Get Married, Jai White’s face has always been more familiar than his name. But with the release of his latest,…
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Fly Little Biracial Balloon Boy, Fly…
If you happen to be a biracial kid stuck growing up in a miscegenation-phobic time-warp like Tangipahoa Parish, La., where Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell apparently refuses to marry interracial couples because he feels “the children will suffer later,” then you, at some point, might have dreamed of floating away in your father’s helium…