culture
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Everybody Hates Chris Cuomo After CNN Host Compares Fake News to the N-Word
Whoa there, Chris Cuomo, slow down—your ignorance is showing. On Thursday the CNN anchor was on Sirius XM’s POTUS channel and was trying to make a connection regarding what journalists feel when they hear the term “fake news.” As reported by The Hill, the host of CNN’s New Day said: I see being called “fake…
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The Pioneer: Wanda James, the 1st Black Woman to Own a Marijuana Dispensary, Gets Real [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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NAACP Image Awards Aren’t the Black Oscars but a Much-Needed Fete of Black Excellence
The NAACP Image Awards have been around for the past 48 years. That is almost five decades of honoring black excellence at the highest level. In 2015 and 2016, it seemed as if black America had been sent a memo that the esteemed Oscars were just for white talent, thus causing the internet to erupt…
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From Dr. Dre to #BlackBauer, 24: Legacy’s Corey Hawkins Is Doing Big Things
If there’s one thing 24 fans know, it’s that things don’t always go as planned. And that was certainly the case for the debut of 24: Legacy, Fox’s reboot of its game-changing series 24, after Super Bowl LI. Of course the Super Bowl would go into a first-ever overtime, pushing 24: Legacy’s well-timed promotional premiere…
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Instead of a Cape, This Hero Teacher Wears a Du-Rag and Taught His Students How to Tie One
If there’s one Twitter account that should be followed, it’s Washington, D.C., teacher Patrick Harris’. Harris commonly shares the achievements of his students and various life lessons, but a recent tweet shared something even more important recently. How to properly tie a du-rag. Although it’s not Durag History Week, which was created by The Atlantic’s…
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‘Dear White People’: The Secret White Email That Started the Netflix Boycott
On Wednesday, butt-hurt wypipo everywhere joined together to boycott Netflix because of the trailer for the new show Dear White People. After Issa Rae’s Insecure and Russian spies exposed America’s secret white email network last year, we managed to hack into the white server and unearth the email that started the entire Netflix controversy: Dear…
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Watch: My Black History: Michael Eric Dyson on How MLK’s Assassination Opened His Eyes
Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…
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Here’s Why Maxwell (the R&B Singer, Not the Coffee) Is Trending
Looks like someone has something against Black History Month … well, at least that’s the consensus on Twitter. I’ll never know what Maxwell is actually talking about because he blocked me on Twitter earlier this summer after I questioned his “All Lives Matter” tweet. But here’s what everyone else is saying (and he apparently called…
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Sheryl Underwood Defends George Lopez on The Talk
Sheryl Underwood wants the world to know that she and George Lopez are friends and that he is not racist. Also, she wants us all to know that if a woman had flipped her off during her comedy show, she would have called her a “bitch,” too. As previously reported by The Root, George Lopez…