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Chris Brown Says He Contemplated Suicide After Rihanna Assault
Editor’s note: This post contains a tweet that some may find offensive. Chris Brown wants the world to know that he’s misunderstood. In a new trailer for his upcoming documentary Welcome to My Life, Brown laments about feelings of suicide and his image as a bad boy. Probably the most interesting thing of note about the…
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15 Truly Underrated Hip-Hop Albums
Since I had to conceal the “Parental Advisory” sticker to convince my mama to purchase my very first compact disc—Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s E. 1999 Eternal—from Blockbuster Music back in 1995, I’ve accumulated somewhere just south of 1,000 CDs. After 21 years of collecting so much music, I’ve forgotten about certain albums that were significant to me…
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Hillary Clinton’s NAN Speech Sounds Good, but Does Anybody Really Believe Her?
“She know she lying. F—k outta here,” Charles Johnson, 31, whispered as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke inside the Metropolitan Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in New York City for the National Action Network conference. Wearing a flattering red suit, the former secretary of state was met with a standing ovation from the predominantly…
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Questions From BuzzFeed’s ‘27 Questions Black People Have for Black People,’ Ranked From Least to Most Terrible
Along with being so remarkably tone-deaf that its tone-deafness felt intentional, BuzzFeed’s now infamous “27 Questions Black People Have for Black People” actually raised more questions than it answered. Namely, who green-lit this? Were the people in the video actors reading from a script? Or did they come up with their own questions? And where…
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Why I Stopped Caring About Baseball
Growing up, I was fortunate enough to play several organized sports at varying levels from early youth through high school. I played soccer and basketball, ran both track and cross-country, gave football a short stint. In college I took badminton as one of my physical education requirements, and apparently my particular class was so good,…
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Mich. Tire-Shop Owner Under Fire After Saying He Doesn’t Service Black or ‘Ghetto’ People
The owner of a tire shop in Ann Arbor, Mich., is coming under quite a bit of fire after trying to defend himself for saying that he doesn’t want the business of black or “ghetto” people, Mic reports. It all started when Ypsilanti resident Madison Callanan left a negative Yelp review about her experience at…
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The 15 Most Hilarious Moments From The People v. O.J. Simpson Miniseries
In no particular order: 1. O.J. Simpson’s banter during the mock cross-examination when he was describing a volatile incident with Nicole Brown Simpson: “You know … we was just wrasslin’ … ” 2. F. Lee Bailey—who in real life reportedly helped out with the miniseries and said, to some effect, “As long as Bob Shapiro looks like…
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$250,000,000 HBCU Innovation Fund Act Introduced to Congress
Rep. Alma S. Adams of the 12th Congressional District of North Carolina this week introduced the HBCU Innovation Fund Act, or H.R. 4857, HBCU Buzz reports. The legislation would create the HBCU Innovation Fund, which would make $250 million in competitive grants available to historically black colleges and universities across the country and allow for the…
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Is My Black Family Related to a White Florida Governor?
I’m seeking help confirming a family legend about the origins of my late mother, Helen Sarah Louise Davis, on her father’s side. Her parents were Jennie Eleanor Marshal, from Pensacola, Fla., and a man named Charles Call. Family lore says that Call was married to a woman whom he could not divorce because she was…
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The GOP Won the South, but It Will Lose the White House
Watch carefully, folks. We may be witnessing an astonishing historical phenomenon: the death of a major American political party. In real time, the GOP is devouring itself—or, rather, Donald Trump is generating a feeding frenzy; and whether by suicide, murder, fratricide or whatever, the party of Lincoln is on track to implode by Election Day,…