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Omarosa to Join Celebrity Big Brother Because What Else Was She Going to Do?
Omarosa Manigault Newman, the onetime reality star-turned-politico, is going back to her roots. The former Diet Coke getter for President Waco von Jonestown is the latest to join a cast of D-list actors and has-beens on Celebrity Big Brother. It’s been a wild ride for Omarosa, whom we first met in 2004 as the evil…
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Black Student Enrollment Lagging in Many of the South’s Premier College Campuses: Report
A new report reveals major disparities between the rate of black high school graduates and the rate of black students enrolled at flagship state institutions. Among the findings: Nine of the 10 states with the biggest gaps were found in the South. The Hechinger Report released an interactive look Monday at how many black and…
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New Jersey Teacher Arrested on Charges He Offered Good Grades in Exchange for Penis Pics
A New Jersey high school teacher was arrested Friday on charges that he promised at least two students better grades if they sent him lewd pictures of themselves, prompting the necessary question: Were teachers always this nasty? NorthJersey.com reports that Jose Maria of Passaic High School was taken into custody and charged with endangering the…
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Deontay Wilder Thinks He Could’ve Beaten Peak Mike Tyson; Lennox Lewis Says, ‘Nah, Bruh’
Boxers talk trash; it’s what they do. But WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder may want to slow down on his claims of multigenerational greatness, especially when he’s talking about a man who once threatened to eat another boxer’s kid. One-belt Wilder had the audacity to claim that he could’ve beaten 1986 Mike Tyson, which, for…
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7-Year-Old Florida Boy Escorted Away in Handcuffs After Allegedly Punching Teacher
A 7-year-old Florida elementary school student was taken out of school in handcuffs after he allegedly hit his teacher during an altercation at the school. According to ABC News, the first-grader was escorted out of a Miami-Dade police cruiser’s back seat while wearing handcuffs as his mother videotaped the incident and tried to comfort him…
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Exclusive: Auntie Maxine Will Have Some Choice Words for Trump During Angela Rye’s State of the Union on BET
Well, even if Tuesday’s State of the Union by President Donald Trump makes you roll your eyes into the very back of your head, there will be a reprieve, children. Political pundit Angela Rye, who has risen to become a prominent voice for a black community under siege, will break it all down during the…
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California Woman Sues Walmart for Locking Black Beauty Products Behind Glass
Black people continue to be criminalized for just being in the U.S. of A. A California woman says she is suing Walmart for discrimination after saying that the mega retailer locked its African-American hair and skin products behind glass at a California store. Moreover, the woman said, she was walked to a register by an…
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Jay-Z Called Your President a ‘Superbug,’ and Trump Responded With Black Unemployment Figures
President Donald Trump didn’t have much to say to rapper Eminem, who has been excoriating him on wax (wait—do people even say “wax” anymore?) who has been ethering him in the cloud for a minute, but, again, Trump hasn’t responded. But perhaps because it is rumored that the current POTUS only watches television, he did…
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Set It Off! FBI Hunts for the ‘Freedom Fighter Bandit’ Who Says She Robs Banks for a Cause
This story is just too juicy: Authorities say that a young black woman has robbed at least nine banks à la Set It Off-style, and now the federales are in hot pursuit. WSB-TV 2 reports that authorities suspect that 25-year-old Nilsa Marie Urena is the woman police have dubbed the “Freedom Fighter Bandit” since, according…
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13-Year-Old Maryland Boy Miraculously Survives Fall Where 6-Inch Nail Pierces His Brain
There must’ve been an angel by this kid’s side … because somehow he survived a fall in which a nail attached to a board went through his skull and pierced his brain. In fact, Darius Foreman not only survived but was able to go home on Thursday—his 13th birthday—after a dangerous and delicate neurosurgery at…