culture
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Transgender Woman CeCe McDonald Released From Prison
CeCe McDonald, a 26-year-old transgender woman who was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for manslaughter, was released Monday, ABC News reports. McDonald didn’t plan on becoming a figure for the transgender-activist community late one night in June 2011, when she and friends were leaving a Minneapolis bar and were confronted by ex-con Dean Schmitz.…
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Teenager Hurls Racist Remarks, Kanye West Allegedly Throws Punches
Looks like Kanye West’s plan to chill didn’t last long, as TMZ is reporting that the hotheaded rapper, who is now known as much for his antics as for his music, punched a teenager. According to TMZ, his fiancee, Kim Kardashian, had arrived at medical building when photographers swarmed her. Not wanting to deal with…
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Online Gangbangin’: Flaunt It, Boast About It, Busted
The beat comes in—a rapid high-hat, laced with a dope-smoking, hypnotic keyboard punch—and then the hook, an ode to how Twain Gotti, a 22-year-old rapper from Newport News, Va., will ride out on his enemies. Gotti proceeds to spit the lyrics that got him arrested for an unsolved murder in 2007: Listen, walk to your…
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Being Mary Jane Creator: ‘I Think Mary Jane Is All of Us’
When BET’s original movie Being Mary Jane premiered last summer, it drew 4 million viewers, making it the highest-rated cable show for the evening. When the show officially premiered last Tuesday, it was cable’s top show for the night again, attracting 3.32 million viewers. The show’s creator, Mara Brock Akil, is excited about what she…
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Fat-Shaming Trolls Need to Get Over Gabourey Sidibe’s Weight
Gabourey Sidibe attended the Golden Globes Awards Sunday night. And in what has become a time-honored (and vile) tradition anytime she appears anywhere and happens to be photographed, some viewers thought it would be a good idea to mock her weight. Again. There was, of course, the flat-out name-calling, which was clear fat-shaming. And then…
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Kerry Washington Makes Rare Appearance With Husband at Golden Globes After-Party
Kerry Washington is notoriously hush-hush about her private life, so what a surprise when she stepped out with her husband, Nnamdi Asomugha, at the Golden Globes after-party. According to the Huffington Post, the couple was spotted partying at the Weinstein Co. and Netflix party at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday. Washington, who was dressed in…
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Sheriff’s Department Looks for a ‘Black Man’ Involved in ‘Suspicious Activity’
If you see a black man in West Virginia—any black man—he could be a person the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department is interested in because of suspicious activity. No, seriously. Over the weekend, Morgantown, W.Va.’s Dominion Post published a blurb describing how the sheriff’s department was looking for a man involved in some suspicious activity, according…
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Murdered Brooklyn Slumlord’s Unpaid Debt Helped Shut Down Obama’s Bank
Unpaid loans to slain Brooklyn, N.Y., slumlord Menachem “Max” Stark contributed to the demise of Chicago’s Broadway Bank, which served high-profile customers such as President Barack Obama and had ex-Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon as a board member, the New York Post reports. Two sizable loans to Stark, in addition to 15 other bad bets…
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Beyonce’s Feminist Essay on Gender Equality
Beyoncé’s feminism is undoubtedly about to be analyzed over the next few days – as it was when her album was first released – after an essay published in the Shriver Report, in response to the report revealing that 42 million women in the USA are living in or on the brink of poverty, The…
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Delta Sigma Theta Celebrates Founders Day
On Jan. 13, 1913, 22 women at Howard University founded Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Since then, the sorority has seen many outstanding women among its membership and honorary ranks. Here are 12 of them. 1. Dorothy Height Rho chapter Civil rights leader 2. Melissa Harris-Perry Pi Omicron chapter Professor, public intellectual 3. Angela Bassett Honorary…