culture
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Raven-Symoné Doesn’t Like Black-Sounding Names? How Ironic
“That’s ironic” is up there with “No, really. I’m 6 feet tall” and “Men are intimidated by me” on the short list of “Unintentionally inaccurate and misleading things people often say.” Because what’s often labeled irony is really just happenstance or coincidence. If two different exes happen to see you out while you’re on a…
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Flip the Script: Black Cop Kills Unarmed White Kid in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s New Fox Project
Love & Basketball and Beyond the Lights director Gina Prince-Bythewood is set to tackle police brutality in a new Fox miniseries starring Sanaa Lathan, Deadline reports. Prince-Bythewood and her husband, Reggie Rock Bythewood, share writer credits and will also share executive-producer credits with Empire Executive Producer Brian Grazer and Imagine Studio’s Francie Calfo. The project, tentatively…
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HTGAWM Recap: Sex, Lies and Betrayal
It was not one of Annalise Keating’s best weeks, and viewers know that in about two months (TV time), things are going to get worse for the law professor, who is now taking it one day at a time and coping with her lonely nights one drink at a time. Her drunkenness might become a…
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Scandal Recap: The 8 Most Disrespectful Moments
Last week, Olivia Pope shocked the world when she boldly proclaimed that “Yes,” she is President Fitzgerald Grant III’s mistress. Not knowing that Olivia has just come out of the closet, this week, Fitz and Mellie prepare to do a joint interview in which they will denounce the rumored affair and declare their ceaseless love…
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5 Things That Changed After the 1st Million Man March
Black men from across the country will assemble on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall on Oct. 10 to mark the 20th anniversary of the iconic Million Man March. Just as a generation ago, the Nation of Islam is the main organizer of the rally. Dubbed Justice or Else!, the gathering demands equal justice at a time…
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Piers Morgan Tweets ‘I Love My Whiteness’ to Black Lives Matter Activist, Calls #BlackTwitter Racist
In a moment of peak whiteness, professional Twitter troll Piers Morgan responded to Campaign Zero activist DeRay Mckesson’s tweet of his signature “I love my blackness. And yours” by saying that he loved his whiteness. Peak. Whiteness. Black Twitter’s clap-back to the British media personality’s initial tweet and his subsequent disingenuous and inflammatory replies was…
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10 Drake Songs Matt Barnes Was Probably Playing While Driving to Fight Derek Fisher
Two thoughts immediately came to mind as I was reading about how Matt Barnes drove 95 miles to confront and fight Derek Fisher for hanging out with Barnes’ estranged wife, Gloria Govan. First: On the list of the “bout it”-est light-skinned black men of all time, considering Barnes’ history, he has to be No. 1…
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From Crack House to Cocaine Apartment: The Privilege of Dying While White
With a bit of trepidation, I’m addressing the story of Kiersten Rickenbach Cerveny, the married doctor and mother of three who was left unconscious in the lobby of an apartment building she did not live in and was pronounced dead by medics shortly after she was found. While the cause of death hasn’t been determined,…
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Empire Recap: Down in the Gutter
So, what was that all about? The show has been all over the place lately. The season premiere featured Cookie giving a speech about the so-called justice system while wearing a gorilla suit, a stream of pointless cameos and Chris Rock as the least convincing cannibal kingpin around. Last week’s episode was surprisingly fresh and…
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Just Sex: The Root Answers Your Most Intimate Questions
Have you found yourself going through the motions in the bedroom? Does your partner not seem as stimulated as he or she once was? Has a recent medication changed your sexual responsiveness or caused physical changes that make lovemaking uncomfortable? You’ve got questions, but are you too embarrassed or too uncertain about whom to ask…