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Bill Cosby to Be Sentenced in September
Bill Cosby is scheduled to be sentenced in September after being convicted of drugging and molesting former Temple University women’s basketball administrator Andrea Constand. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault last month. Since the verdict was handed out, Cosby has been confined to the same suburban Philadelphia mansion where he…
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Tarana Burke: Black Community Needs to Have Uncomfortable Conversations About Sexual Violence
I caught up with Tarana Burke at the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault annual awards on Monday in New York City, where she picked up yet another award for her years of activism, most notably #MeToo. Over the past year alone, Hollywood and media luminaries like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Matt Lauer and…
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Kennedy Center Rescinds Bill Cosby’s Honors, Mark Twain Award
Bill Cosby no longer has two honors bestowed upon him by the Kennedy Center. Just two weeks after he was found guilty of aggravated indecent assault, Cosby’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor received in 2009 and a Kennedy Center Honors received in 1998 were rescinded. According to the Washington Post, the Kennedy Center board…
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Hate the Player, Not the Game: On Loving the Art of R. Kelly, Kanye and Cosby
This weekend, while driving with my windows down in 86-degree, sunny springtime weather, my car’s playlist (mostly comedy, hip-hop and old-school R&B) shuffled randomly to a 26-minute story from a 1968 comedy album. As a lover of storytelling, I couldn’t bring myself to hit the skip button as the winding, 26-minute story from the album,…
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‘Street Talk’ From Huckabee Sanders?
Ryan Offended by ‘You Don’t Know Much About Me’ Coates: I Didn’t Have the Luxury of Avoiding Racists Camille Cosby: Media Too Easily Believed Accusers Reporters Link Some White Nationalists to Military Hostility Toward Press Found Worsening in U.S. Pair Create Positive Space for Black Millennials Coping Advice Offered for Career Women of Color Sun-Times…
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Bill Cosby Ousted From Film Academy Along With Roman Polanski
After adopting a new code of conduct and new procedures for handling workplace misconduct allegations in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday that it had expelled Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski from its membership. According to the Hollywood Reporter, members voted to…
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White America Is ‘Publicly Lynching’ Black Men … but Not Kanye, Cosby or R. Kelly
The hullabaloo about Kanye West’s nonsensical rants, the Bill Cosby conviction and the movement to mute R. Kelly has exposed a clear line of demarcation with two opposing sides. The first side needs no introduction. Anyone reading this has probably seen at least a few of the extensive catalog of think pieces about why Kanye…
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Camille Cosby Calls Husband’s Verdict ‘Mob Justice’
Last week, Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault during his retrial on sexual assault and drugging charges in Pennsylvania, and the 80-year-old now faces up to 10 years in jail. But in today’s standing-by-her-man news, his wife, Camille Cosby, wrote a three-page statement about the guilty verdict her Quaalude-dropping…
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10 ‘Heroes’ Who Should Win Awards Before Donald Trump Gets a Nobel Peace Prize
Donald Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. No, seriously. Eighteen Republican lawmakers have nominated Sir Lies-a-Lot for a Nobel motherfucking Peace Prize because he threatened to jump-start a pre-emptive nuclear holocaust so many times that two hated rivals (North Korea and South Korea) decided they probably needed to get together before this…
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Bill Cosby’s Name and Statue Have Been Removed From the Television Academy Hall of Fame
Bill Cosby was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1992 in a ceremony at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., but a week after he was found guilty of sexual assault by a jury in Norristown, Pa., his name and likeness have been removed from the Hall of Fame. According to the…