Candace Owens Pulls This Shady Move Against Erika Kirk That Has Black Folks Giving Side-Eyes
New Alex Pretti Video Exposes the ‘Perfect Victim’ Bias Black Folks Are Used To
Why Staying Up Late at Night Can Be No Good For Black Folks
RHOP’s Karen Huger Reveals Explosive Details About What Led Up to DUI Arrest and Jail Sentence
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The Pandemic Has Caused a National Surplus in Chicken Wings That May Go to Waste, and We Absolutely Should Not Stand for It
A certain basketball tournament got canceled causing a nationwide surplus of chicken wings and…that might just be the blackest lede I’ve ever written. Here’s what happened according to the Washington Post: The NCAA basketball tournament is the second of two big annual events for chicken wings. (The first is the Super Bowl.) Wing prices and…
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The Coronavirus Has Turned Me Into a Handyman. Temporarily, at Least
You know what sound you don’t want to hear when you’re holed up in your house and you’re trying to avoid close contact with friends (humanity, really—and don’t even mention a whole-ass stranger in your house to fix shit because that’s entirely off the table)? No idea? Cool, I’ll tell you. You don’t want to…
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Black People Have Been the Only Ones to Die From COVID-19 in St. Louis: Report
Recent reports have shown that coronavirus is infecting and killing black people at a disproportionately high rate. In St. Louis, city officials announced Wednesday that all of their COVID-19-related deaths have been black people. According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as of Wednesday, the city has over 480 confirmed cases of coronavirus infections and all 12…
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We Figured Out Why Coronavirus Is Killing Black People…As If You Didn't Already Know the Answer
Tamara is “essential.” Even though she has no medical training, no experience in law enforcement and has never driven an ambulance or extinguished a fire, Tamara is still technically an “emergency responder.” She risks her life every day to work as a case manager for the state of Alabama’s Department of Human Resources, even after…
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Philadelphia Rapper and Model Chynna Rogers, Dead at 25
Model turned rapper Chynna Rogers, known as Chynna, died Wednesday at the age of 25. “Chynna was deeply loved and will be sorely missed,” her family wrote in a statement obtained by Pitchfork. The cause of death has not been confirmed. Pitchfork further reports: Chynna Rogers began her career as a model, signing with Ford…
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Lawsuit Alleges That Yonkers Police Forced Muslim Woman to Remove Hijab
I’m sure you, like me, are tired of reading about all the doom and despair associated with the current pandemic. So let’s switch gears and talk about cops being trash. NBC News reports that a lawsuit filed by Ihsan Malkawi, a Muslim woman in New York, alleges that Yonkers police forced her to remove her…
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Air Pollution Disproportionately Affects Black Folks. A New Study Finds It Also Makes Coronavirus Much More Deadly
A new nationwide study has established a clear link between exposure to pollution and COVID-19 death rates, finding coronavirus patients who live in areas with high levels of air pollution are more likely to die from the virus than those who live in communities with cleaner air. Coming out of Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of…
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Tyler Perry Continues 'Random Acts of Kindness,' Pays Shoppers' Grocery Bills at 73 Stores in Atlanta and Louisiana
Say what you will about Tyler Perry’s wig selection, but don’t you dare try to say the man isn’t a giver. News station 11 Alive reports that the TV and movie mogul paid grocery bills for customers at 44 Krogers across metro Atlanta Wednesday as an act of kindness and goodwill during this time of…
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Wendy Bell, America's Worst White Woman, Is Back (and Wants to Kill Your Grandparents)
I imagine that, if you’ve never heard of Wendy Bell, you find her anointment as America’s Worst White Woman to be suspicious. “Who is this mystery woman,” I picture you asking, “who somehow beat Ann Coulter, Abigail Fisher, and Toejam Lobotomy to be America’s worst white woman? How is she the LeBron of Karens?” Well,…
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Per Usual, Black Women Tried to Tell Y'all: A Black Lady Sketch Show's Apocalypse Sketch Was Ahead of Its Time
Somewhere lying on a couch awaiting a kid to come hand her the remote that’s only a few inches away from her is a black woman twisting her face in an incredulous smirk because she knew this was coming—and she tried to tell y’all. That woman is portrayed by Robin Thede, creator of HBO’s A…