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Black Women and the White Men They Love
The Somali supermodel and businesswoman was set up with British rock royalty David Bowie by their shared hairdresser. “It was nerve-racking at the beginning, the first five minutes, but we got along very famously, and we have been together since then,” she said in an interview. The power couple walked down the aisle in 1992…
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Chappelle TV Rumors 'Absolutely Untrue'
Entertainment Weekly reports that Dave Chappelle is not planning a return to television, despite rumors that started last month when he made reference to planning a comeback at a stand-up show in San Francisco. Online paper the Daily wrote that the former Comedy Central star was plotting to reboot his TV career by making a…
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Odd Future: 213 Uses of 'F—-t' Not Homophobic
In today’s addition to the “I didn’t mean it that way, so it’s impossible for me to consider that you might have taken it that way” file, Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator has shrugged off criticism of his liberal use of homophobic language (he uses the word “faggot” 213 times on one album) after attracting…
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Samuel Jackson Reads 'Go the F— to Sleep,' and More
Samuel Jackson reads Go the F—- to Sleep: When novelist and author Adam Mansbach was dealing with his daughter’s countless sleepless nights, he took to writing down his feelings on the fairly frustrating matter. What resulted was Go the F—- To Sleep, a picture book expressing many parents’ most frustrated bedtime sentiments. Now you can…
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2012 Campaign: Who Is Katherine Archuleta?
I’ll admit: Last week when the Obama 2012 re-election campaign announced its new political director, I thought: “Who?” But even if the president’s pick, Katherine Archuleta, doesn’t yet have national name recognition, she’s certainly a strong political operative: 1. She’s the chief of staff to Secretary Hilda Solis in the U.S. Department of Labor. 2.…
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Miami Police Accused of Destroying Evidence of Memorial Day Shooting
In a new development in the racially charged controversy surrounding the deadly shootings by police officers at Miami’s Annual Memorial Day Urban Beach Week Festival, the Miami Herald reports that a couple who filmed the incident has accused officers of intimidation, destroying evidence and twisting the facts. Narces Benoit and his girlfriend, Ericka Davis, told…
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Black AIDS Institute and NAACP Grade U.S. Presidents' Responses to AIDS
During the 30-year fight against AIDS, several U.S. presidents have been faced with tackling the country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic — and according to the Black AIDS Institute and the NAACP, not all have risen to the occasion. In the report 30 Years Is Enuf! the two organizations graded five presidents from the last three decades —…
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Twitter: Bin Laden's Alleged Ex-Lover and Rapper Wale Feud
Fresh from our “You’ve gotta whole lotta nerve” file, Osama bin Laden’s former mistress Kola Boof has taken to Twitter to attack rapper Wale for perpetuating dominant standards of beauty in his music video for “Pretty Girls,” calling him self-loathing. John Hudson reports that Boof went slap-off on Wale, who is Nigerian and from Washington,…
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Fox News Chief Pushing N.J. Gov. Christie
A lengthy cover story in New York magazine makes the argument that Roger Ailes, who heads Fox News, badly wants to play Republican kingmaker for the 2012 presidential election and that his ideal candidate is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. “A few months ago, Ailes called Chris Christie and encouraged him to jump into the…
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Arnold's Ex-Housekeeper Loses Anonymity
“In reporting the ongoing fallout from Schwarzenegger’s affair with the former housekeeper who gave birth to his child, has the press unduly invaded the privacy of Schwarzenegger’s one-time paramour?” Joe Pompeo wrote Thursday for Yahoo. “Some major news organizations have exercised restraint, declining to publish the names, photos or any other revealing details about the…