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15 Songs to Crank Up While You’re Working Out
If your favorite workout partner is your earbuds, then you already know how important a high-quality workout-playlist is. It can either break or make your workout experience, right? So about your next playlist—don’t sweat it. Since I spend endless hours getting my heart rate up, I scoped out this year’s best workout tracks to help…
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Roland Martin: NewsOne Now’s Activist Anchor Debuts New Time Slot
“We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” —Freedom’s Journal, first African-American newspaper (1827) Roland S. Martin is no regular newsman. He is a seasoned, outspoken and bold change agent who uses his national platform as a prominent African-American journalist to talk about the issues, politics and policies affecting…
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Support for TV Mistresses? Experts Suggest Millennials Place Too Much Emphasis on Love and Not Obligation
In Scandal, U.S. President Grant Fitzgerald, played by Sam Goldwyn, is having an affair with Kerry Washington’s character, Olivia Pope. In the Starz drama Power, Jamie St. Patrick, a club owner and reluctant drug dealer played by Omari Hardwick, is having an affair with his high school sweetheart Angela Valdez, played by Lela Loren. Both men…
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Jussie Smollett Talks Cleaning Floors, Just Like You Like It
He’s really into cleanliness. And you all are lucky (or unlucky, depending on your POV) he wasn’t naked. That’s what Jussie Smollett told The Root about a viral video of him mopping floors while his co-star Gabourey Sidibe cheered him on. The video popped up on Aug. 6 and has been retweeted more than 3,000…
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Should You Swipe Right on These Dating Apps?
Summer is coming to a close, and cuffing season is right around the corner. Although lives are hectic and the cooler climate means fewer people are venturing out of the house to socialize, the Internet is always here for us. Dating in 2015 has evolved beyond the “123” beeper messages of the ’90s and past…
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5 Promising Careers to Consider if You Can’t Stand Your Job and Are in the Throes of a Quarter-Life Crisis
You’re opinionated and spoke well as a child, so you figured you’d become a lawyer. But maybe you weren’t interested in either cliché, and loved the glitzy side of corporate America. You envisioned yourself in a three-piece suit or a pencil skirt, at the head of a boardroom, defending a strategy to increase your company’s…
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Married to Medicine: From UFC-Style Brawls to Southern Shade, and How I’ve Come to Love It All
Have you ever wondered to yourself, “I wonder what the life of my proctologist’s wife is like?” Or question whether or not your gynecologist can curse like a sailor and fight like Ronda Rousey? Would you want dating advice from your dentist? Ever curious to know if the doctor who tells you to cut down…
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5 Things I Learned From Our Fall TV Role Models
Ahhhh. Fall is around the corner, and once again, it will be time to organize our lives around our TV programming. “Lol, hun. You know better than to ask me out for drinks after 8 p.m. on a Thursday. You know that time is not yours or mine. That time belongs to Shonda,” will probably…
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Ava DuVernay on Moving Beyond the Black-Film ‘Trend’ and Becoming the Norm
It’s hard out there for a black filmmaker. But it’s also hard out there for an Asian filmmaker. And a Latino movie director. And a female director or screenwriter. It’s hard, period, if you don’t fit the standard mold of white and male in Hollywood. But Selma director Ava DuVernay is determined to change that.…