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More Than 100,000 Sign Petition to Remove Raven-Symoné From The View
In the latest update about Raven-Symoné, an online petition is calling for her removal from The View after she intimated last week that a high school student in Columbia, S.C., could have avoided being violently attacked by a school resource officer if she had simply gotten off her phone. “You are in school, get…
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What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl Who Is Assaulted in the Classroom
In 1978, when I was 6 years old, a female teacher assaulted me in a classroom. I was a rambunctious, intellectually curious child who talked a lot in class. I loooooved my homeroom teacher, Ms. S., who was kind and treated me nicely, which was important for a black girl growing up in post-civil-rights-era Lynchburg,…
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The 2nd-Dumbest Reason to Hate NBA Basketball Has Everything to Do With the NFL
At the moment, the New England Patriots, partially fueled by a gaggle of sociopathic self-righteousness after being “vindicated” in Deflategate, are undefeated and would seem to be the early favorites to win the Super Bowl. This information should come as no surprise to anyone who’s even a casual fan of the NFL. Because that exact-same thing…
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#WCW: Somebody on Twitter Was Dragged by Cher Over Spring Valley High Assault
Somebody on Twitter had Cher on her bully, yo. On Monday the icon tweeted about how appalled she was by the video of the South Carolina student who was picked up, tossed and dragged by a school official. The incident was caught on tape and went viral. People from all walks of life are disgusted…
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Are Cops in Classrooms a Danger to Our Kids?
The #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh in Columbia, S.C., raises critical issues regarding school safety and the presence of law enforcement in the classroom. Beyond the initial shock over the school resource officer’s handling of the situation are legitimate questions about whether he should have been there in the first place and, moreover, how police in a school should…
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Issa Rae: It’s Time for Equal Pay
A lot of people still don’t know that many men and women aren’t paid the same for the exact same work. At this rate, women won’t get paid as much as men until the year 2059. We’re slated to have flying cars and humans on Mars first. I wish I were joking. It’s hard to…
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Why Listening to Adele’s ‘Hello’ Will Ruin Your Life in a Good Way
Unless you live under a rock, you probably heard and saw Adele’s new video for her first single off the upcoming November release 25, entitled “Hello.” She’s coming for you. She’s coming for me. She’s coming for us all. Adele saw that Taylor Swift was set to gross (on average) $1 million a day this year and…
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How Beyoncé Makes Us Crazy
Who is Beyoncé? Beyoncé is an introverted Houstonian known best for being allergic to seats—like, literally every seat she’s ever seen makes her sneeze—and for inventing “surfborting.” Surfborting? Yes. Surfborting. She’s the world’s first—and probably the world’s only—professional surfborter. Is she known for anything else? Well, for approximately 171 million Americans and 1.4 billion people…
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Some Say There’s Nothing Funny About Donald Trump Hosting SNL
Latinos See Invitation as “A Big ‘[Expletive] You’ “ Latino groups are voicing outrage at NBC for asking Donald Trump to host “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 7, saying that if he had insulted other groups as he has Mexicans, no such invitation would be extended. “What if all of the Latino cast members all…
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Amber Rose Is Waving Her Middle Finger Furiously at GQ Article, Says It Was Ignorant
Editor’s note: This post contains social media messages that some may find offensive. Amber Rose is not a happy camper. She took one look at a blurb in GQ about the feature article she conducted with the magazine, and took to Instagram to give GQ’s editors a piece of her mind. “Really @GQ??? I’m so much…