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Say What Now? Barack Obama Discovered To Be Following Porn Star Sara Jay On Social Media

To some, he may be the next best thing since sliced bread but he’s still very much a real human being. And apparently, like many, he enjoys porn. Forever President Barack Hussein Obama may not be as buttoned up as some may have thought. And that’s just fine. Overnight, an award-winning adult entertainment star going…

By

Brooklyn Baldwin

Published

March 14, 2020
News

'He Still Makes a Joke About It': Woman Slapped by DaBaby Doesn't Believe His Apology Was Sincere

DaBaby has officially apologized, but the woman he slapped ain’t buying it. In a video posted on TMZ, Tyronesha Laws says she doesn’t believe the 28-year-old rapper is truly sorry for his actions. TMZ adds: She says she’s embarrassed by everything that’s happened since that fateful moment, telling us it’s really “hateful.” She’s referring to…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

March 11, 2020
Entertainment, Social Media

Let's Step Into the Girls Room and Unpack What Happened Between Nina Lee, Lena Waithe and Dove

If you identify as a woman and have ever entered a public ladies’ room, chances are, at some point you have bonded with a stranger and made a fast friend. Perhaps the bond was due to an overly enthusiastic outfit compliment—or a borrowed tampon. This fast friend may be temporary and you may never see…

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Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

February 27, 2020
Entertainment, Social Media

Twizzlers vs. Red Vines: Civil War Erupts on Twitter After LeBron Celebrates Lakers Win With a Snack

Between thumping their chest, high-fiving their teammates or screaming into the heavens, there’s no shortage of ways for NBA players to celebrate a much-deserved win. But after busting the Pelicans’ ass with a 40-point assault in the Lakers 118-109 victory, LeBron James opted for something a bit more subdued: He tore up a pack of…

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Jay Connor

Published

February 26, 2020
News

Sick of Her Son Ruining Her Good Name, Snoop's Mom Makes Him Apologize to Gayle King: 'Two Wrongs Don't Make No Right'

Teenagers are often insufferable, and in my formative years I vividly recall my mother bestowing some invaluable advice that remains with me to this day. After our umpteenth dispute over my lackluster grades, or talking back after breaking curfew, or whatever the hell it was, she looked me dead in my face and said, “You…

By

Jay Connor

Published

February 13, 2020
Politics

Donald Trump, Jr. Gets Clowned For Channeling Johnnie Cochran's Famous O.J. Simpson Defense Regarding His Pappy's Impeachment Acquittal

Is this another messy AF case of cultural appropriation? Or is it a dead-on comparison? (Pun intended.) Whatever it is, can someone please get these people a copy of Social Media for Dummies? In an asinine attempt to compare his father’s fugazi impeachment acquittal, Donald Trump Jr. brought up O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century.”…

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Brooklyn Baldwin

Published

February 9, 2020
Beauty + Style

Where Misplaced Loyalty and Misogynoir Collide: On Snoop, Cosby, and Why Protecting Black Women Always Seems the Last Priority

It was another ritualistic dragging on social media this week, as Black Twitter read Gayle King for filth for daring to ask WNBA veteran Lisa Leslie about the darker side of Kobe Bryant’s legacy (his 2003 sexual assault charge, which was subsequently dismissed and settled out of court) during an interview on CBS This Morning.…

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Maiysha Kai

Published

February 7, 2020
Beauty + Style

So Fresh and So Clean: An Empowered Ayanna Pressley Claps Back at Alopecia-Shaming Trolls

It was only last month that Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) revealed her alopecia diagnosis here at The Glow Up, and just last week when she proudly stood on the floor of the House of Representatives with her bald head on display for the first time. For a rising political figure who was already a force…

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Maiysha Kai

Published

February 7, 2020
Beauty + Style

PSA of the Day: Black Women—and Megan Thee Stallion, Specifically—Are Not Avatars for Your Sexual Fantasies and Insecurities

Yesterday, Black Twitter lost its entire and collective mind after hearing that a beautiful, accomplished, and S-I-N-G-L-E 24-year-old black woman spent a weekend partying in Miami, in which she casually tolerated being worshipped by a visibly enamored white guy. If you don’t spend as much time on Twitter as I and other masochists do (and…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

February 4, 2020
News

A Star Washington Post Reporter Called Out a Racial Blindspot in an Article. Leadership Threatened to Fire Him

Following last week’s debacle at the Washington Post over a staffer’s Kobe Bryant tweets, a new article published Monday morning from the Daily Beast establishes that the Post has had ongoing issues over its stringent social media policy. Last year, that policy was used to threaten Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery’s job. According to the…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

February 3, 2020