Considering the NBA’s global popularity and penchant for staying ahead of the curve, Saturday’s announcement that the…

I often jokingly tell people that I grew up in a household made up of three (occasionally four, depending on what…

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Kanye West—you may have heard of him—is on the move. On the heels of recent comments about the 13th Amendment and his…

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Did you know the watermelon is from Africa? Or that it’s actually a berry? And that they’re delicious AF? Yet given its…

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I was trolling Twitter last night when I stumbled across the best thing I had seen on the internet that entire day.

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