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Cryptic Messages Counting Down Suicide Are Posted to Boxer Adrien Broner’s Instagram
Unless eccentric boxer Adrien Broner’s Instagram page has been hacked, cryptic messages have been coming through on his social media page that have Broner’s friends and fans deeply concerned. Early Wednesday morning, a post appeared on Broner’s account apologizing to his family and friends. Shortly after, a post of a photo of a gun appeared…
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Cleveland Running Back Makes Good on Promise to Donate Game Check to Police Foundation
Cleveland Browns running back Isaiah Crowell made good on his word to donate his first game paycheck to the Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation after he posted a drawing of a hooded man slashing a kneeling police officer’s throat. “I said I was going to do it, and I wanted to follow through,” Crowell told Cleveland.com.…
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Carolina Panthers Running Back Mike Tolbert Might Be Super Petty
Carolina Panthers running back Mike Tolbert might be the most passively aggressive petty person ever if you believe the owner of Motion Lab Tuning, an automotive company in Charlotte, N.C. According to automotive site Jalopnik, Tolbert took a vintage ride to Motion Lab to get a new engine. The owner says that because of Tolbert’s…
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Denver Broncos' Brandon Marshall to Donate $300 Per Tackle to Address 'Critical Social Issues'
Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall has said from the outset of his decision to take a knee during the national anthem to protest racial injustice that doing so was only part of his plan. In an Instagram message posted Wednesday morning, Marshall announced that he would be donating $300 for every tackle he makes to…
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Dear People Who Created The Prisma App, You're The Real MVP.
You may not know this about me, but in my soul, I’m an artist. At my core, I’m a musician, a photographer, a painter, a writer, a poet, etc. I’m all of the arts. Ain’t no art that I ain’t attempted to art. A thug even tried to scrapbook once until I realized that thugs don’t…
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Everything We Know About Korryn Gaines
Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. Korryn Gaines is the name of the 23-year-old woman who was shot and killed by Baltimore County police officers Monday. Authorities say that after an hourslong standoff with police, the young mother pointed a long gun at an officer and said that…
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What to Do if You Find Out That Pop-Pop Is a THOT
Much like the instantaneous, fame-adjacent status he procured by being shown wearing trendy clothes that showed off his ankles on the internet, the older black gentleman known as “Mr. Steal Your Grandma” has hastily fallen from many folks’ good graces. Much of it has to do with a since-deleted Facebook status in which Irvin Randle…
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Jackee Harry and Anita Baker Are Great on Twitter, but Tina Knowles Lawson Is Killing the ’Gram
Older black women are, by and large, my happy place. They often prove themselves to be incredibly honest, wonderfully hilarious and the very best of blackness. I have had an affinity for the group I describe as “black aunties” since I was a child who obsessed over his literal black aunties. However, it is often…
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Blake Lively's Gentrified Booty, Explained
Who is Blake Lively? For a while I thought she was Sienna Miller. Like, I’d see her and say “That’s Sienna Miller in that movie, apparently.” But she’s not Sienna Miller. And she’s definitely not Scarlett Johansson. Are you sure? Yes. So she’s just Blake Lively? Yes. She is just Blake Lively, a person who…
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