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Lamar Odom Reveals He Passed a Drug Test for 2004 Olympics With the Help of a ‘Giant, Rubber, Black Cock’
Lamar Odom apparently needs to sell some books. Fresh off the TMI news that the embattled baller’s memoir reveals he’s bedded over 2,000 women, reports now say the book also details the um, lengths, he went through to pass his drug tests in 2004. People Magazine was given exclusive excerpts of Odom’s book, Darkness to…
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Trauma, Meet Tyranny: If You Thought the Georgia Abortion Bill Couldn’t Get Worse, Consider How It Could Impact Women Who Miscarry
And they scoffed at us when we said The Handmaid’s Tale was prescient—or maybe, they were actually smirking. Georgia’s HB 481 bill, signed on Tuesday by bogus Gov. Brian Kemp and proposed to go into effect in January 2020, has sounded a death knell for women’s reproductive rights in the state, and a given a…
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Chicago's First Black-Owned Urgent Care Center Is Officially Open for Business
A group of black medical professionals have joined forces in order to prioritize the health and well-being of Chicago’s Southside residents. The Chicago Crusader reports that Premier Health Urgent Care, possibly the first and only black-owned urgent care facility in the city of Chicago, has officially opened its doors in Southside’s Hyde Park neighborhood. “We…
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Airbnb Hires Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt as Head of Global Diversity and Belonging
On Wednesday, Airbnb took more steps toward diversity, inclusion and equity by announcing Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt as head of global diversity and belonging. Thomas-Hunt will join the home-rental company’s executive team and direct the strategy and execution of diversity, inclusion, and equity programs for its 5,000 employees worldwide. In an official statement, Airbnb’s co-founder, CEO…
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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Books Out the Door, Abandons City Hall Post
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has written herself out of her role as the city’s chief executive, announcing her resignation Thursday after coming under intense scrutiny over the sale of books she wrote to those doing business with both the city and the state of Maryland. Sorry. The puns are endless. “I am sorry for the…
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Ain’t Too Proud to Sing: Claiming Black Space on the Great White Way
Two days ago, the Broadway show Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations was nominated for 12 Tony Awards. For those who don’t follow the Great White Way, this is big. Big! For those of you who do, you know that this grand spotlight means industry insiders, Tony voters and wealthy retirees…
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Temptations, Forever: Ain’t Too Proud Scores 12 Nominations for the 2019 Tony Awards
Nominations are in for the biggest night in Broadway and members of the Tony Awards committee really are coming to see Otis. (*wink*) On Tuesday, the 73rd annual Tony Awards dropped its list of contenders vying for that coveted statuette named for Antoinette Perry. The nominations announcement was brought to us by Gayle King (CBS…
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Reel Life: Model Slick Woods’ Feature Film Debut in Goldie Blurs Reality and Fiction
If there’s one thing that can be said about model-of-the-moment Slick Woods, it’s that she doesn’t hold back. The it-girl and new mom has long been transparent about her life—whether disclosing a childhood and adolescence impacted by the incarceration of her mother, Vonnya-Leah Mason, her own former addiction issues, her non-binary identity, or going into…
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These Poets Are Dedicated to Elevating and Preserving the Artform
Editor’s note: This week, for National Poetry Month, we’re featuring 37 up-and-coming black poets who we expect do amazing work over the next decade. We grouped them by categories, though their works often blur boundaries and defy definitions. Monday’s theme was Black Regionalism, poets who look at black life and society through the prism of geographic…
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'Exhibit C' Is Almost 10 Years Old. Jay Electronica Has Completely Squandered His Career
Illmatic, my all-time favorite debut album and one of my top-five favorite hip-hop albums of all time, celebrated its 25th anniversary April 19. Whether or not Nas ever released another classic album has been the subject of an interminable debate among hip-hop nerds; what isn’t up for debate is that Nas had a largely respectable…