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Hip-Hop Legend MF DOOM Dies at 49
This past Halloween, hip-hop lost one of its greats. MF DOOM, aka Metal Face, aka King Geedorah, aka Viktor Vaughn, aka the Villain, was as eccentric as he was talented and through both traits, he built an underground following and a hip-hop legacy that is literally like nothing we’ve seen before. This is a man…
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Dallas Cowboys Strength and Conditioning Coach Markus Paul Dies at 54
Dallas Cowboys strength and conditioning coach Markus Paul died Wednesday night at the age of 54 after suffering from a medical emergency at the team’s practice facility in Frisco, Texas, on Tuesday. From Yahoo Sports: Paul collapsed during a medical emergency on Tuesday morning at the Cowboys’ practice facility in Frisco. He was attended to…
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Chadwick Boseman, the Black Panther, Has Died at 43
Chadwick Boseman, the award-winning leading man who portrayed inspiring Black figures in movies like Marshall, 42, Get On Up, and the culture shifting Black Panther, has died from colon cancer at 43 years old. Boseman’s death was announced on his official Instagram page on Friday night, in a post which revealed that the actor had…
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Either Herman Cain Is Tweeting From Beyond the Grave or Someone Is Using His Twitter Account to Bash Biden and Harris
It has been tough watching the scores of Republicans openly weep after learning that one of their beloved GOP soldiers, a fighter of their fight, Herman Cain, died from complications of the coronavirus. I believe it was Sen. Lindsey Graham who came out stating how much he loved Cain and…. Managing Editor Genetta Adams: Stephen,…
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The Life Lost But Never Forgotten and The Movie I Struggle to Watch Because Of It (Happy Birthday, Tra)
I can’t just watch the movie John Q. I’ve tried a few times. I actually managed to make it all the way through to the end for the first time in almost 10 years a few months ago. It was on, I was up late and I decided to force myself to make it through…
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John Lewis Honored With Final March Across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.; Tributes Continue in the Nation's Capital and Georgia
Over the weekend, civil rights leader John Lewis took a final journey over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., during a ceremony that recognized the former congressman’s history with the place he memorably marched on Bloody Sunday. Lewis was carried across the bridge in a horse-drawn carriage on Sunday, reports the Washington Post, as part…
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Civil Rights Icon John Lewis to Lie In State at the US Capitol
The civil rights legend and Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who fought the racist Trump administration right up until his final breath, will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on Monday and Tuesday. Lewis, the longtime Democratic congressman from Atlanta and last living speaker from the March on Washington, died July…
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Thomas Lane, One of the Former Officers Charged in George Floyd’s Death, Is Free on $750,000 Bail
One of the four Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd was released from jail Wednesday after posting bail. ABC reports that 37-year-old Thomas Lane—one of three former police officers accused of aiding and abetting ex-officer Derek Chauvin, who caused Floyd’s death by holding him down while Chauvin pressed his knee into…
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From the Ashes of Mike Brown Protests, Ella Jones Becomes Ferguson’s 1st Black and 1st Woman Mayor
On August 9, it will have been six years since Mike Brown’s death. Some six years ago, Ferguson, Mo. became front-page news when white officer Darren Wilson shot and killed an 18-year-old unarmed teen. The stories would be conflicting, the narrative would be familiar and the nation was forced to pick a side. Black folks…