sexual abuse
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Slavery, But Make It a Bodice-Ripper: Ancestry.com to Pull Offensive, Ahistorical Ad
The DNA testing company Ancestry.com says it’s pulling an ad depicting a mixed-race couple during antebellum slavery after a furious—and well-deserved—backlash accusing the company of romanticizing and whitewashing the reality of interracial sexual relationships during that period. The ad, called “Inseparable” (Funny how hard it is to be separated when the circumstances are, uhmm, literal…
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Dallas Mavericks Star Kristaps Porzingis Accused of Beating, Raping Black Woman
After missing his entire season NBA season due to injury and requesting a mid-season trade to the Dallas Mavericks, forward Kristaps Porzingis had hopes of getting his career back on track in his new surroundings. But with serious rape allegations now surfacing from his playing days in New York, the former Knick must resolve his…
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'If I Die Tomorrow, I Know I Told the Truth': Another R. Kelly Accuser Goes Public With Her Story
“I’m not ashamed of my past anymore. I’m not ashamed of what naysayers say,” said Lanita Carter, previously identified only as “L.C.” in the current open indictment against R. Kelly. In an emotional interview that aired Thursday on CBS This Morning, she broke her silence and a previous non-disclosure agreement to add her voice to…
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R. Kelly Had Dubai Plans, but Dubai Government Officials Never Got the Memo
Robert “R.” Kelly wanted to go to Dubai to meet the royal family and perform a concert, so that he could make funds to pay his outstanding child support fees. He wished, he wished, he wished. However, his itinerary hasn’t been corroborated with Dubai government officials at all. “Authorities in Dubai have not received any…
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After Leaving Neverland, Louis Vuitton and Virgil Abloh Pull Michael Jackson-Related Designs from Fall Collection
It is a tribute turned troubling reference for the team at Louis Vuitton menswear—and arguably one that was always bound to be problematic. When Virgil Abloh sent guests single white spangled gloves as invites to his Fall-Winter menswear presentation (his second for the French house), it was clear the spirit of the man widely known…
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From 'Suicide Pacts' to R. Kelly Tats, Disturbing New Stories from His Girlfriends Arise
To be labeled Robert “R.” Kelly’s “girlfriend” is to be tangled in a highly disturbing web, it seems. Following Kelly’s first interview since his arrest on multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault, Gayle King also interviewed two of the self-proclaimed “Pied Piper’s” girlfriends, Azriel Clary, 21, and Joycelyn Savage, 23, in an explosive discussion that…
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Oprah Knows She's 'Gonna Get' Backlash for After Neverland Special, Says 'It's Bigger Than Any One Person'
Immediately following the second half of HBO’s Leaving Neverland documentary was a much-anticipated interview between Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jackson’s accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, as well as the film’s director, Dan Reed. The special aired on Monday evening, with an intimate group of sexual abuse survivors in the studio audience—including #MeToo movement founder…
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Leaving Neverland: Reconciling With the ‘Man in the Mirror’
Trigger Warning: Please be advised, the documentary described in this article contains extremely graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse. I had never seen anyone dance the way he did. My two younger cousins and I spent a multitude of hours watching—no, analyzing—Michael Jackson’s HIStory, the VHS anthology of his greatest hits. We created a makeshift…
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Playwright Loy A. Webb Brings The Light to Where #MeToo, #MuteRKelly and #BlackLivesMatter Converge
Three years ago when Loy A. Webb crafted The Light, the burgeoning playwright had no idea where the world would be when her play had its New York premiere last month. The Logan Vaughn-directed drama is set in today’s Chicago and turns the idyllic concept of millennial black love on its head as a couple,…