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What Black Networks Missed by Not Showing the Inauguration
Black Entertainment Television and TV One, the major African American-oriented networks, provided a much-needed service on Election Day by providing a sympathetic outlet for their stunned viewers to process Donald Trump’s presidential victory. But on Inauguration Day, both took a pass. They blew it. “Our viewers are far more emotionally moved by the exit of…
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Protesters Pepper-Sprayed on Inauguration Eve Outside ‘DeploraBall’ in DC
Protesters took to the streets Thursday night, on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, to rally near locations of several inaugural balls and events, WUSA9 reports. According to the news station, protesters in Washington, D.C., clogged up F Street Northwest near 14th Street outside the National Press Club, where an event dubbed the “DeploraBall”…
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D.L. Hughley to Donald Trump: ‘F–k You Now and F–k You Forever’
Comedian D.L. Hughley is letting President-elect Donald Trump know how he really feels in a Facebook Live video posted to his page Friday night. Hughley basically pulled a post-Katrina Kanye and said that Trump doesn’t care about black people. From the nomination of Alabama good ol’ boy Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to his racist Birtherism…
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Who Came to Jim Acosta’s Defense?
CNN reporter Jim Acosta yelled at Donald Trump at Wednesday’s news conference, “Mr. President-elect, since you have been attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance?” “No! Not you. No! Your organization is terrible,” Trump shot back. (CNN video)CNN reporter Jim Acosta yelled at Donald Trump at Wednesday’s news conference, “Mr. President-elect, since…
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The Trouble With Jimmy Fallon
All in all, he wasn’t a bad choice to host the Golden Globes. He had the requisite clever and colorful opening number, an affable demeanor and the ability to improvise. He even started off strong with some postelection shade—though it didn’t erase our memory of his pre-election playfulness with the now-PEOTUS. And it certainly couldn’t…
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Why I Won’t Cry Over or Celebrate the Dylann Roof Death Sentence
On Tuesday a unanimous jury sentenced Dylann Roof, a 22-year-old white supremacist who killed nine churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., to death. This sentence made Roof the first person in United States history to be given the death penalty in federal court for a hate crime. It only took three hours of deliberation for the jury…
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Meryl Streep Destroys Donald Trump at the Golden Globes
“Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose,” said Meryl Streep when she accepted her Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday’s Golden Globes. Streep, who was a strong voice during the 2016 election season, had a few words for Donald Trump during her acceptance speech,…
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Ding-Dongs in a Ring: Chris Brown and Soulja Boy Agree to Pay-per-View Fight
Embattled singer Chris Brown and former Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood character Soulja Boy are taking their online beef into the ring. Soulja Boy revealed on Instagram this week that boxer Floyd Mayweather is training him for the fight, and 50 Cent followed that up with a post confirming that Mike Tyson will be training Brown,…
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A Wealth of Questions Remain in Facebook ‘Hate Crime’ Torture
“In Chicago, at least four young black men and women did something truly awful,” Shaun King wrote Thursday for the Daily News in New York. “On a damn Facebook Live video made public Wednesday, they allegedly kidnapped a mentally challenged white man, beat him, humiliated him, cut his hair, and yelled ‘f—k Donald Trump’ and…
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Mexico’s Former President to Trump: ‘I’m Not Paying for That F–king Wall’
Businessman Vicente Fox Quesada, former president of Mexico, took to Twitter to tell President-elect Donald Trump to f—k his couch and his wall. Trump spent the last year and a half saying that he was going to build a wall—a yuge wall—and Mexico was going to pay for it. Well, there’s a little caveat. Now…