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Check Out Black Brilliance 360, a Web Series Delivering Real Talk by and for Black Men
Negative images of black men are easy enough to find in American culture, the kinds of images that label them as “thugs” or criminals. But a new web series called black brilliance 360, which launched this week, is out to flip the narrative on who black men are and what they’re really about. Produced by…
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NABJ Joins Meeting With Trump Transition Team
The National Association of Black Journalists and the National Newspaper Publishers Association, representing the black press, joined other African American organizations Wednesday in providing a “listening session” for the Donald Trump transition team. The off-the-record session was led by Omarosa Manigault, the former contestant on “The Apprentice” newly named by the president-elect to work on…
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Black Fashion Designers Get Some Long-Overdue Love in New Exhibit
Black style is so prominent that the first word of the couplet is practically unnecessary; very little that’s stylish doesn’t have some black antecedent. On the other hand, black fashion designers? They are some of the other hidden figures on the cultural landscape. That’s what makes “Black Fashion Designers,” the exhibit that runs until May…
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‘F–k Trump!’: Alleged Kidnapping and Torture Live-Streamed on Facebook
Four people in Chicago are in police custody after an alleged kidnapping and torture incident was broadcast on Facebook Live on Tuesday. CBS Chicago reports that the 18-year-old victim is a Northwest-suburban resident with special needs who had been reported missing. In the video, which has since been removed from Facebook, the victim’s clothes are…
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'You're Like Orange Savages': Man Captures Neighbor on Camera Hurling Anti-Filipino Slurs
Another day, another person being caught on a racist tirade. This time, a Las Vegas man posted a Facebook video of his neighbor going off on a rant in an argument that he said stemmed from cleaning up leaves. Dexter Manawat told KTNV that his neighbor got out her broom, and while she went about…
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Kenya Moore Pulls Gun on Trespassers at House
Kenya Moore is not playing games when it comes to exercising her right to bear arms. And a couple of trespassers learned that firsthand. Two men and a woman thought they’d take their chances and come onto Moore’s Atlanta property. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star didn’t hesitate to take to social media to put the unidentified…
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Dick Clark Productions Denies Sabotaging Mariah Carey's NYE Performance
Mariah Carey’s Times Square New Year’s Eve performance won’t be forgotten for a while. On top of becoming literally the first meme of the year, Carey claims that Dick Clark Productions purposely sabotaged the show for ratings. In an interview with EW, Carey’s manager Stella Bulochnikov spoke about what transpired before the performance and shot down rumors…
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Chicago Police Department Holds Back as Bloodshed Rises: Report
“Chicago ends 2016 with more than 700 murders and over 4,000 people shot — the worst bloodshed the city has seen in 18 years,” CBS News reported Thursday in promoting a report scheduled for Sunday’s “60 Minutes.” “Data obtained by 60 Minutes shows that while gun violence spiked, police activity dropped in all 22 of…
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Trey Songz Arrested in Detroit for Giving Cop Concussion
As with many union venues, when your time is up, they will shut you down. And so it was with R&B star Trey Songz, who reportedly tore up the stage of the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit after his mic was cut. “He told us how they said that he was taking up too much…
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Ronda Rousey Knocked Out in Just 48 Seconds
Welp, that was quick. Ronda Rousey was (technically) knocked da f—k out in less than a minute Friday night as she fell to bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207. Unfortunately for Rousey, the 28-year-old Brazilian was relentless from the very beginning and ended the fight in about 48 seconds. The New York Daily News…