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How Donald Trump Made Don Lemon Look Like Malcolm X
Did you see it last night on CNN? Don Lemon went full Huey Newton and called a racist a racist! It was glorious, but let’s slow down a bit—Don Lemon’s Afro didn’t grow to Colin Kaepernick levels. In fact, watching the metamorphosis of Lemon from passive Don Lemon to mildly annoyed Don Lemon has been…
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Stephen Miller Showed His Whole Ass During CNN Interview, Then Had to Be Escorted Out by Security: Report
White House policy adviser Stephen Miller has been trash most of his life. In high school, Miller ran for student government as an outspoken conservative who prided himself as someone “who will say and do things that no one else in their right mind will say or do.” He also campaigned that he couldn’t be…
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CNN Debuts American Woman Documentary Series … Which Has the Same Name, Theme and Aesthetic as a Series Already Created by a Black Woman
On Wednesday afternoon, I received a text message from creative director and photographer Sarah Huny Young linking me to a new CNN documentary series called American Woman. Created by Brooke Baldwin and displayed as a digital interactive, it features trailblazing women who have “shattered glass ceilings, whether in music, fashion or film,” and includes Ava…
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Trump and CNN Are Having a Messy Public Breakup; Now CNN Isn’t Going to the Christmas Party
President Yahoo von Hotmail has ruined his relationship with mainstream media and, most especially, his lover CNN. On Tuesday, the news station announced that it wouldn’t be attending the annual White House Christmas party because President LooseLips von TweetBeef won’t stop talking bad about the press. “CNN will not be attending this year’s White House…
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‘I. Am. Not. Finished’: Why Angela Rye Goes So Hard
There are times when you’re watching TV and someone makes you so proud to be black that you feel a certain kinship. I actually don’t know what “kinship” means, so hold on while I look it up. OK. It just means a “blood relationship.” That explains why, even though we know that Angela Rye’s job…
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I’m Kind of Starting to Mess With Don Lemon
For the better part of most of the time I’ve known he’s existed, Don Lemon has been a fuckboy. Or at least that’s how he’s presented. From telling black folks to stop littering and stop using the n-word as part of a sort of five-point plan for getting niggas together to even being lazy in…
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‘Can’t Wait to Stab Your Neck’: Don Lemon Receives Racist Death Threats From Trump Supporter
CNN’s Don Lemon has been the target of a series of racist death threats by an apparent white supremacist Donald Trump supporter, leaving the anchor so concerned that he apparently contacted the police. According to TMZ, Lemon contacted the New York City Police Department on Wednesday after receiving multiple messages on Twitter, including ones that…
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Tone-Deaf Reporter Gets Read for Asking Dumb-Ass Questions During Hurricane Harvey
Microphone check, micro, microphone checka. The press has deservedly been called out for dumb shit and, as BBD once rap-sang, “Ain’t nothing changed.” Unfortunately, white folks gonna white. This time, it was a reporter so doggedly trying to get a soundbite that she failed to see a family’s real suffering. Well, one mother in Houston—a…
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Hey, Paris Dennard, Woofing Only Works on the Basketball Court Against Nonblacks
Thank God for the stereotype of the violent black man, not because it’s accurate or because it’s deserved, but because there are people who believe that all black men are violent. As a result, those of us who can’t fight can rest, or coast, on the laurels of those of us who can. My dad…