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Newseum Honors Alice Allison Dunnigan, The First Black Woman to Serve as a White House Reporter
The first black woman accredited to cover the White House was honored with her own life-sized statue at the Newseum Friday, in Washington, D.C., the Associated Press reports. Alice Allison Dunnigan, who faced both sexism and racism during her career, was tapped to be the Washington bureau chief for the Associated Negro Press, after a…
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Suge Knight, the Red Menace, Hit With 28 Years in Prison
Murder was the case that they gave him, and days before his trial was slated to begin, the man who many (and by “many” I mean “me”) believe sucked the soul out of hip-hop, is receiving his just desserts. Marion “Suge” Knight recently entered a plea of no contest to a charge of voluntary manslaughter…
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Jay-Z Tops Forbes List of Highest-Paid Rappers; Soulja Boy Snubbed Again
Despite ignoring The Root’s calls to become our employer, the hip-hop artist responsible for killing the spiders and taking out the trash at the Knowles-Carter compound managed to make enough money last year to purchase the 64 box of Crayons with the sharpener included for Sir and Rumi and also managed to top the list…
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Cardi B and Drake Dominate BET's Hip Hop Awards Nominations
Continuing a trend that played out on the Billboard charts earlier this year, Drake and Cardi B are sitting happy atop the BET Hip Hop Awards heap this year, racking up 21 nominations collectively. Drake leads the entire field with 11 nominations, including nods for Album of the Year, for Scorpion, and Lyricist of the…
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Keep It Classy: Kelly Rowland Speaks Out About Witnessing the Cardi B vs. Nicki Minaj Melee
When the shoe throw heard around the world took place at the now infamous Harper’s Bazaar “ICONS by Carine Roitfeld” party on Friday night, Kelly Rowland was a reluctant witness. In fact, several reports noted that the singer (and our personal all-time favorite of Destiny’s Children) had just posed for a picture with Nicki Minaj…
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Famously Fly: Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed 2018 Includes Some of Our Most Fashionable Faves!
You’ve seen them on screen, on the red carpet and often, right here on The Glow Up. And now, just in time for New York Fashion Week, several of our favorite fashionable celebs have landed on Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed 2018 list! And because we’re always rooting for everybody black (it’s our job, as well…
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Minnesota House Candidate Kyle Greene Wants to Be Your N-Word
A black man with a heavy speech impediment who considers himself a politician made a campaign video in which he called himself a “nigger”—hard “r.” I wish I was joking. Kyle Greene is running for a state House seat in Minnesota and what he made was a pretty tame campaign video right up until the…
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Black Breastfeeding Week: Why Doctors Insist the Breast Is Best
As a new parent, if you knew there was something you could do to instantly provide not only nurturing but nutrition and protection for your newborn, you’d do it, right? If you’re physically capable of breastfeeding your newborn, there is. Experts have long said the practice is the best source of nutrition for your baby,…
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Rap Song That Advocated Violence Against Police Not Protected by First Amendment: Pennsylvania High Court
Hip-hop has had a long and fraught history with law enforcement because the communities that spawned the genre have been traumatized and over-policed since we first hit these shores. Consequently, rap lyrics that have spoken to this brutality have been tried in the courts, where words deemed inappropriate are criminalized (some would say weaponized) against the…
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In a ’90s Kind of World, I’m Glad I Had My Girls: Living Single at 25 and Me
Growing up 55 shades of gay in the ’90s, there were not a lot of places for a young whippersnapper like me to draw inspiration from what life could be like as an adult. Friends? Too unseasoned. Seinfeld? I don’t know her. Fraiser? Cute, but for a six-year-old with a serious Princess Ariel obsession, not…