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Energetic and Nostalgic Performances by Bell Biv DeVoe, Tony! Toni! Toné and More Helped the Apollo Spring Gala Raise Over $2 Million
This week the legendary Apollo Theater celebrated the 13 years of its star-studded annual Spring Gala. Every year the iconic Harlem landmark gathers every ounce of black excellence it can find to raise funds for its year-round artistic- and community-programming initiatives. Guess how much they raised this year? No … guess. Over $2 million! Yeah,…
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Food Truck Worker Who Attacked Black Woman Says ‘I’m African, Too’
Islam El Masry, the Portland, Ore., food truck driver caught on video throwing a Gatorade bottle at a black customer and verbally abusing her, wants you to know that he’s not a racist. “My father is black. I’m African, too,” the owner of the Small Pharoah food cart told KGW-TV Thursday. He said he was…
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Tennessee Woman Says She Was Racially Profiled, Accused of Shoplifting and Handcuffed at Victoria’s Secret Store
A Victoria’s Secret store in the Carriage Crossing mall in Collierville, Tenn., has issued an apology and offered a $100 gift card to a customer who was handcuffed and accused of shoplifting Monday after attempting to return an item to have a security tag removed. Instead of simply having the tag removed from her item,…
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From IDGAF to ‘Y’all Hiring?’ CrossFit Exec Fired for Homophobic Tweets [Updated]
Updated: Thursday, June 7, 2018, 8:30 p.m. EDT: In addition to Russell Berger’s firing, the CrossFit location that he praised for canceling an event coinciding with Indy Pride has been shut down. The Indianapolis Star reports that the downtown Indianapolis CrossFit Infiltrate, located on West Ninth Street, has a sign posted on its door that…
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Terrell Owens Could Be on MTV’s The Challenge, but He Can’t Go to His Own Hall of Fame Induction
No one tells Terrell Owens what to do. Part of that is what made him one of the most polarizing wide receivers in the NFL, and the other part of that is why he isn’t going to his own Hall of Fame induction ceremony, even though he participated in arguably MTV’s worst show, The Challenge.…
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White Woman Pleads Guilty to Falsely Accusing 2 Black Men of Rape
First she said that two black men violently raped her. Then she said they didn’t. Then she said she’d only accused the men of rape because she was trying to gain the interest of a potential boyfriend. Then she said she never told police that she was raped at all. Now she admits that she…
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Ben Carson Backs Off Newest HUD Plan, Which Would Raise Rent for Poor Households by 20 Percent
During a press conference in Detroit on Thursday, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson appeared to back off from a controversial plan that would have raised rent among the poorest Americans. Talking about the new initiative, Carson said that other funding had come through, so there was no need to increase rent payments,…
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Bryan Colangelo Steps Down as Philadelphia 76ers President of Basketball Operations After Twitter Scandal
In what might be the most bizarre case to ever shame a NBA organization, Bryan Colangelo resigned Thursday as president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers after a private investigation firm found that Colangelo’s wife created several Twitter accounts to leak damaging and private information about 76ers players. And, get this, Colangelo is pissed…
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Is Trump’s Biggest Frustration That He Can’t Watch Porn in the White House? MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski Thinks So
President Donald Trump is a thot. Porn actress Stormy Daniels told us this when she revealed that the president of the Piggly Wiggly likes being spanked on his untanned buttocks with a Forbes magazine. And that isn’t even considering the “water sports” that allegedly took place with Russian hookers. Well, it turns out that you…
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White Football Coach Accused of Using a Noose as a ‘Joke’ to Intimidate a Black Student Gets Paid Leave
A San Jose, Calif., high school teacher and assistant football coach has been placed on leave—but will still be collecting a paycheck—after an incident during which he allegedly simulated a noose to intimidate the lone black student among a group of football players. The Mercury News, citing police, reports that the Santa Teresa High School…