culture
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My Ex Won’t Move On, and Now He’s Sending Me Texts With a Nude Photo of Me
I broke up with my boyfriend of three years more than six months ago. There was a deal breaker, so I packed my things and moved into an apartment. He’s been persistent about getting back with me, and I’ve been just as persistent in letting him know that I’m done. At this point I don’t…
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How to Get Away With Murder: Better Call Annalise
Annalise Keating’s methods might be questionable, but there’s no denying that the Middleton University professor knows how to get results. She has managed to keep her murdering associates (students and employees alike) out of jail, dispose of a dead body found in her basement, frame her handsome ex-boyfriend and manipulate her lovely ex-girlfriend into defending…
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Scandal Recap: America’s Mistress
On last week’s episode of Scandal, the world finally found out about Fitz Grant and Olivia Pope’s affair when Sally Langston outed them on national TV and had the receipts to prove it. This week’s episode picks up right where we left off. Fitz wants to make a joint statement with Olivia confirming their love to…
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Why I Feel Some Kind of Way About the Pope Meeting Kim Davis
I’m not a Catholic. I have a few rosaries, but mostly because rappers kept wearing them in videos as they referenced Jesus while pouring champagne over some woman’s head at the club, which is the stupidest thing ever. Champagne is not cheap at the club. Especially not the kind they’re pouring on models in the…
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Man Uses Facebook to Brag About Sexually Assaulting His ‘Friend’
While I was scrolling through Facebook posts Tuesday, between pudgy, dancing babies and the latest political debate, one status stopped me cold. According to the post, in response to a woman who shared that she had recently been date-raped, a man decided to explain the mind of an alleged rapist by detailing how he had…
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Why I Hate Howard’s Homecoming Weekend
It’s Howard University’s homecoming this weekend, right? I think so. You’re not sure? No. I didn’t go to Howard and I don’t live in Washington, D.C., so I don’t have the Howard homecoming dates tattooed on my chest. But you do think it’s happening this weekend. Why? Well, I do have multiple friends and followers…
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Hip-Hop’s Nas Joins Eric Holder as W.E.B. Du Bois Honoree
The third annual Hutchins Centers Honors convened Wednesday evening at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. The event honors trailblazers in politics, culture, business and finance. This year’s Du Bois Medal awardees—including Muhammad Ali (in absentia), former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Children’s Defense Fund’s Marian Wright Edelman, Ariel Investments’ Mellody Hobson, journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, artist…
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Prison Kids Film Brings Awareness to Plight of Children Put in Solitary Confinement
It’s time to end the practice of putting juveniles in solitary confinement. That was the message the makers of the new Fusion Investigative Unit documentary Prison Kids had for Washington, D.C., Wednesday as they held screenings on Capitol Hill and at the Motion Picture Association of America’s theater space in downtown D.C. Right now the…
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Empire Recap: Trying to Build a Dynasty
Warning: This episode, “Without a Country,” may cause mental confusion. Did Cookie’s outfits border on tasteful? I initially chalked it up to Empire Stockholm syndrome. She’s no FLOTUS, but considering her usual getups, Cookie’s business attire was practically sedate. During Hakeem’s auditions for a new girl group, the wannabes showed up in acid-washed daisy dukes…
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The Apollo Theater to Induct 3 Black Comedy Legends Into Its Walk of Fame
In 1969, trailblazing comedian Jackie “Moms” Mabley stood onstage in her trademark floppy hat and flowered housedress and told the audience her slogan for the week. “Quit it if you can’t get it,” she told the crowd to raucous laughter. “If you can do something with it, get it!” The African-American vaudeville-circuit fixture turned Broadway…