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Forever FLOTUS, She's Just Like Us: Michelle Obama's Text Exchange With Her Mama is Relatable as Hell
My mama (aka Mama Cheeks, aka the Dalai Mama) and I have an exceedingly close relationship. We communicate in some form every single day. I not only love her, I like her. As a person. She’s hilarious. Ever since moving to Los Angeles from Chicago a little over three years ago (!!!), that 2,000-plus miles…
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Trump Gets Toe Tagged and Bagged by Black Twitter After 'African-Americans Are Very Angry' Tweet
In the CVS receipt-long list of people who should never speak on behalf of black folks, Donald Trump and Uncle Ruckus are engaged in a bloody duel for last place. But lo and behold, Melania’s Baby Daddy took to Twitter to come to our alleged rescue Sunday morning and speak on behalf of our collective…
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Trump Jr. Proves the Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree, Praises Dad for Wildly Inappropriate Trail of Tears of Jab
It’s not exactly a secret that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and that guy ya’ll put in the White House don’t particularly care for each other. They don’t exchange Christmas cards during the holidays, they ignore each other at the dog park, and if Melania’s Baby Daddy came over to borrow sugar, Elizabeth would probably be…
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In Order to End Toxic Masculinity Once and for All, Terry Crews Offers to Slap the Shit Out of D.L. Hughley
For all this tremendous insight and intellect, comedian D.L. Hughley has glaring blind spots when it comes to homophobia and masculinity. And before you say “The fuck? He has tremendous what?” There’s the time he checked his boy Steve Harvey for co-signing Melania’s baby daddy: Having a comedian and a rapper and a football player…
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Will Packer is Producing a Show About Twitter. The Premiere Has to Be About $200 Dates, Right?
Will Packer is packing on more projects—this time, he’s venturing into social media. More specifically, the culture of social media. Will Packer Media’s Power Star Live will premiere on Wednesday, February 6 from 4-4:30 p.m, and each week will focus on the conversations that drive and shape Twitter’s platform. “Power Star Live will cultivate the…
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Gina Rodriguez: For Colored Girls Who Had Anti-Black Sentiments and Black Twitter Decided Their Tears Weren't Enuf
Gina Rodriguez. Sigh. So, full disclosure—I loved Rodriguez’s bubbly self in Jane the Virgin. The CW comedy (perhaps, dramedy?) is a wonderful display of telenovela satire and that shit is endearing. Rogelio De La Vega forever. But, her recent antics of late? “Disappointed” may be the best word. “Annoyed” is another. “Exasperated” rounds out the…
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In the Clapback Heard Around the World, Cardi B Tells Tomi Lahren: 'Leave Me Alone I Will Dog Walk You'
While she might be BFF’s with hip-hop arbiter Charlamagne Tha God, the list of people that despise Right-wing provocateur du jour Tomi Lahren is extensive. There’s DMV rapper Wale: There’s “comedian” Kathy Griffin: And somehow even Alt-black Candace Owens: But I’ll stop there because we’re here to talk about the reigning queen of rap, Ms.…
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Yes, Cardi B Went from Shaking That Ass to Speaking on Politics in the Same Day
Cardi B makes multifaceted moves. The lovable rapper took to Instagram to discuss politics on Wednesday, January 16 after her feature in the City Girls’ music video for their single, “Twerk” dropped. Speaking of—that video? The answer is “yes.” That same day, Cardi also decided to post a rant about something all of us want…
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Alexandria Shipp Storms Twitter to Defend Her X-Men Role—Again. But, Why?
Watch out—there’s a storm afoot. Of Alexandra Shipp’s own making. In “making something out of nothing” news, Shipp tweeted something on an otherwise innocuous Monday evening. “Black twitter is so powerful,” she mused beside her freshly polished tiny violin. “One second we’re trying to rally and define why our lives matter, the next we’re making…
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How Kamala Harris, a Tweet and a Pink and Green ‘Screech’ Proves We Need More Black Journalists
Just below the reported Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; immediately after the quiet white kid in class wearing the trenchcoat who doodles swastikas in the margins of his Social Studies book; ranks the third-place winner of people you don’t want mad at you: Black women. So it is with extreme sorrow that we bring you…
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