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  • Judge of Characters: What Happens When White People Go Back to Their Roots?

    As a fan of Justin Timberlake’s music (not his life choices), I must say that I am perplexed by how casual he was about sharing with the world that he’s going “back to his roots” with his new album, Man of the Woods. White people wanting to go back to their roots makes me nervous.…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Top 10 Moments Black People Won in 2017

    Top 10 Moments Black People Won in 2017

    2017 has been, how do I put this succinctly, a fucking shit year. From the plagues of biblical proportions that this administration keeps trying to drop on us to the fact that Mother Nature is sick of the bullshit and has been trying to finally kill us all via hurricane, 2017 has not been skimpy…

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    Clarkisha Kent

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  • Black Twitter Has Questions About SZA’s ‘The Weekend’ Video

    It’s sometimes disappointing when you have a favorite song off an album and construct the visuals in your head for the music video, but when the video premieres, you’re left disappointed and wondering “WTF?” And those are the exact sentiments many people on social media are sharing after watching the Solange-directed video for SZA’s new…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Judge of Characters: Thanksgiving While Black

    While we are all fully aware of the foundation of lies that Thanksgiving was built on, we’ve managed to turn the holiday into a celebrated time with food and family. [Whispers.] But we’ll never forget. First of all, there are generations of beautiful blackness all in one house, whether it’s Grandma’s house or, in my…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Tech’s Whiteness Is the Problem. Are We the Solution?

    Last week, Twitter said it was “pausing” to reconsider the process by which it bestows the blue check mark denoting accounts that had been “verified,” and on Wednesday the company announced that it was yanking the designation from some users who occupy the neo-Nazi or nationalist bucket of grassroots white activism. The announcements came after…

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    Amy L. Alexander

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  • Fenty Beauty’s Social Media Capital Was Driven by Black Voices

    Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line had $72 million in earned media value during its debut month of September, placing it squarely in the top three performing beauty brands for the month—and beating out many brands that have been around for much longer, analysts say. Tribe Dynamics released the numbers last week in its monthly report. While…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Judge of Characters: Trump Saves the World With Cheap Paper Towels

    This week, the whole world got a chance to see just how terrible the U.S. president could be when he finally made his way to the devastation in Puerto Rico. When Donald Trump wasn’t blaming Puerto Ricans for busting the budget because, you know … aid, he was throwing paper towels and flashlights at them,…

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    Danielle Young

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  • People Are Freaking Out Over a Photo of Supersized Kanye West

    Black Twitter lost its collective mind yesterday when photos of a plus-size Kanye West surfaced, forcing what could either be called “fat-shaming” or a savage roasting session, depending on which side of the aisle you sit. On Friday, paparazzi photographers spotted Yeezy out sporting a new husky look. As soon as the pics hit social…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Either Kevin Durant Refers to Himself in 3rd Person, or He Has Another Twitter Account He Uses to Defend Himself

    In high school, I took a Spanish class in which I learned that I would be called “Esteban” instead of Stephen. I took to calling myself Esteban the rest of the school year and also talked about myself in the third person: “Esteban doesn’t eat personal pan pizza.”  “Esteban has entered the building.” So I…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Twitter Drags Kevin Hart After He Admits to Cheating on His Pregnant Wife, and Hilarity Ensues

    Tsk-tsk-tsk. Kevin Hart’s messy love life is moving into hoarder territory. Not only did his first wife, Torrei Hart, recently accuse him of cheating on her with his current wife and “rib,” Eniko Parrish Hart, but on Saturday, the 38-year-old comedian had to backtrack on his vehement denials of cheating on a pregnant Eniko after…

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    Angela Helm

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