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Starz’s American Gods Boasts a Hot Leading Man and a Goddess Who Swallows Men With Her Vagina
It’s hard to explain American Gods, Starz’s bold new series, to most. Steeped in fantasy, mythology and Americana, American Gods explores immigrants and the gods and spirits they brought with them in a unique fashion. Apparently the modern world, with its new technology and other distractions, has diminished the significance of the old gods, and…
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Who Is the Most Insufferable Cast Member of The Real Housewives of Atlanta? A Ranking
If reports of NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak’s return to The Real Housewives of Atlanta are true, praise everyone on high because this season has been long, draining and worrisome. Some of the cast members are guiltier than others for that, and in the spirit of their nastiness, here is a ranking of everyone who’s…
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Unique Views, Episode 41: Say It Ain’t So, Jesse Williams
Unique Views didn’t have a guest this week, so we decided that we would force our most committed listeners (read: our moms) to listen to everything we hate. Sure, we are rebranding the podcast and have seen ourselves in comic book form (and let me just say that I have the broadest shoulders and the…
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Now That Janet Jackson Has Left Her Man and Resumed Her Tour, Can We See the Real Janet Again?
When Janet Jackson decided to stop depriving us of her splendor, I was elated. “No Sleeep” was her best single in years and managed to be a successful launch for her Unbreakable album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Then came the other part of her comeback: the world tour. You know,…
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Black Students at Harvard Will Host Individual Graduation Ceremony
Graduating from Harvard University is a huge accomplishment for any student, and the commemoration of that event should be something that will be remembered for a lifetime. For black graduate students in 2017, that memory will come in the form of an individual ceremony, the first such ceremony in recent history. The event, which took…
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Ferguson, Mo., Activists Are Dying and It’s Time to Ask Questions
The most iconic photo of the Ferguson, Mo., protests, if not the entire Black Lives Matter movement, is of Edward Crawford defiantly throwing a tear gas canister back at riot police. And now he’s dead. Crawford was found shot to death Thursday night in his car, just like activist Darren Seals in 2016 and protester…
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Trump Just Made the Christian Right the Most Powerful Political Group in America
Many groups were afraid that Donald Trump’s newly signed executive order would be an attack on LGBT groups and other minorities whose lives and beliefs fall outside of traditional religious thinking. Even the ACLU exhaled when it saw the actual wording today. Although it has been lost in the butt-hurt wake of the fiasco that…
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Scandal Recap: Our Long (Fake) National Nightmare Is Finally Over
Last week, Mellie Grant decided to put on her big-girl drawers and pick Frankie Vargas’ widow, Luna, as her vice president—Peus and Sarah be damned. At the beginning of this week’s episode, Luna is accepting the position and Team Mellie is feeling itself, until news breaks that drones are hovering over nine major cities. Peus…