black twitter
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These Blackface-Wearing, N-Word-Spewing Culture Vultures Would Like to Teach Your Kids About Hip-Hop
Please pardon me while I take a deep breath and decide how I want to tell you this story. It has so many layers, and I want to get it right. Maybe I should tell you about the lady who wants to pull a Kylie and Kendall by taking ’90s-era hip-hop artists, putting her name…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Umar Johnson Memes but Were Afraid to Ask
Umar Johnson is back in the news again, blowing up black Twitter after his recent appearance on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne tha God. During a wide-ranging interview, the king of the “ankh-right” (because the word “Hotep” deserves better) railed against interracial marriage while dropping some jewels (pronounced…
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Judge of Characters: Thank You, Kodak Black, Say Black Women Everywhere
This week, some folks hate their blackness, while others who aren’t black embrace blackness with open arms! Who am I talking about? Well, first … let’s dig into rapper Kodak Black, just a little bit. (I say “a little bit” because I literally know nothing about him and I don’t care enough to do research.)…
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Judge of Characters: These White Women Were Told by AppleCare!
White women gonna white women. This week, white women decided to get in “Formation” for an unseasoned display of white-womanness. First, Elizabeth Banks used her speech after winning an award at the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards (something I have never in my life heard of) to call out famed director Steven Spielberg…
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Is Kim Kardashian Wearing Blackface?
Kanye’s baby mama is accused of darkening her skin in an ad promoting her new line of beauty products. According to The Sun (no, not that one; the one that’s a British newspaper), Kim Kardashian sent a tweet publicizing her Kim Kardashian West Beauty Kit, focused on contouring and highlighting: But as soon as people…
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It’s Not the Blacks, Tinashe, It’s You
When your name is “Tinashe,” black folks don’t need Scooby Doo or a member of the Mystery Machine to guess that race. Yet the singer-songwriter-dancer is arguing that the lot of us don’t completely embrace her, a mixed-race woman, even though she considers herself to be a black woman. It was one of the more…
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Watch: Judge of Characters, The Root’s New Digital Show About the Best (and Messiest) of Black Twitter
At this point, we know the power of black Twitter. We set trends, we get folks fired and we are side-crampingly hilarious. So we figured, why don’t we dig into the black Twitter crates each week and serve up the best and messiest 140 characters we can find? Bonus: These tweets are usually about the…
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Beyoncé ‘Ordering Meme’ Is the Best Thing on the Internet Right Now
Issa Beyoncé meme! Beyoncé casually posted an Instagram photo Wednesday, and of course it instantly became a meme. What is she ordering? Was she complaining about the check? Are the twins about to arrive? The internet had questions. Most importantly, what filter was used in that photo?
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Black Twitter Drags Forever 21 for Selling Bootleg Kanye Gear
No one knows what the designers at Forever 21 were thinking when they tried to slip clothes that were obviously “inspired” by (pronounced “sto-lenn frumm”) Kanye West onto their website, but they should have known that the folks on black Twitter don’t sleep. When the fashion retailer updated its collection with what looked like swap…
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Black Twitter Roasts Chris Paul’s New Shoes
What are those? You would think that sneaker designers would have learned their lesson after social media erupted into a weeklong impromptu roast last year when Under Armour released the Steph Curry Twos (my favorite name was the “Let Me Speak to Your Manager 5s”). Nah, bruh. The black Twitter sneaker-roasting session has resumed—this time…