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61 Shot in Chicago Over Christmas Weekend
More than 60 people were shot in Chicago over the Christmas weekend, leaving 11 dead, the Chicago Tribune reports. Most of the violence took place on the city’s South and West sides. The holiday weekend started with five teenagers being shot within feet of one another in the city’s South Austin neighborhood. The Tribune reports…
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Kwanzaa Really Should Be The Best Holiday, And Here's How We Can Make That Happen
It’s become a tradition at my house to host a Christmas Eve party. This way we get to exchange gifts with family but we don’t have to leave the house on Christmas Day. This year, The Misses expanded it into an ugly sweater party with a ‘white elephant’ gift exchange. We had a signature drink,…
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The Black Christmas Music Debate: If ‘Santa Baby’ Isn’t on Your List, Your List Is a Fraud
I love Christmas … but I really love Christmas music. I’m the kind of guy who will start listening to the Yuletide classics immediately after Halloween—and only if I wait that long. While I love the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s “Christmas Time Is Here,” and I can appreciate Frank Sinatra’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,”…
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WATCH: #SleighTheGame: How Much Do You Know About the Holidays?
The holidays are for food, family and fun, so we’re giving you an extra dose of the latter as we play #SleighTheGame, which is basically holiday trivia. We tapped our social media guy, Corey Townsend and one of our biggest supporters, Ty Alexander of Gorgeous in Grey and asked them to show us just how…
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An Ode To Donny Hathaway and "This Christmas"
If you know like I know you don’t want to step to this Christmas season doesn’t officially begin until the first time I play Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas”, his 1970 single (that he wrote with Nadine McKinnor) that tanked upon release but over time has become as vital to the Christmas season as Mariah Carey’s “All I Want…
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Maybe It's Prayer or Hot Tea, but Mariah Carey Is Sounding Better Than She Has in Years
Toward the end of 2014, vicious and very hateful people worked quickly to spread isolated, unedited vocals of a Mariah Carey holiday performance that was not her best (to say the least). We know Mariah loves herself some Christmas, but unfortunately, when she performed “All I Want for Christmas Is You” during a Rockefeller Center…