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Future’s Comments About His Sex Life With Ciara Are Distasteful and Ungentlemanly
Although Future didn’t just come out and start blabbering about his sex life with Ciara, he didn’t exactly bite his tongue, either. The rapper was prompted by a question posed to him during an interview with HuffPost Live, about whether he and Ciara waited for some time to have sex. And that question was prompted…
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Former NYC Inmate Receives $750,000 Settlement After Inadequate Medical Treatment for His 6-Day Erection
Rodney Cotton, a former inmate at New York City’s Manhattan Detention Center, was awarded $750,000 after suing the city for failing to provide him with adequate medical care when he complained that his penis was erect for six days after he took medication, the New York Daily News reports. In his lawsuit, Cotton says that his…
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Jack and Jill Moms Featured on New TV Reality Show
Editor’s note: After this article was published, The Root received this statement from Bravo: “Bravo wants to clarify that the focus of this show is not the Jack and Jill organization.” The television network that made a household name out of NeNe Leakes and turned “housewives” into a synonym for backstabbing and hair-pulling has now…
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Blogger Necole Bitchie Says ‘It’s Time to Move On’
In a letter to her followers that she admitted was sure to make her cry, entertainment blogger Necole Bitchie announced, “It’s time for me to move on.” She will no longer run the website NecoleBitchie.com, which was founded in 2008 by Necole Kane and calls itself “the premiere urban celebrity gossip and entertainment news site on…
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Fire at Historic SC Black Church Ruled ‘Natural’
There was reportedly no criminal intent behind the fire overnight Tuesday at a historic black church in Greeleyville, S.C. According to local investigators, along with the the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the blaze at Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church must have been sparked by “natural causes,” according to reporting by NBC News.…
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Dustin Brown Stuns Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon
He was trained in his father’s home country of Jamaica but now plays for his mother’s native Germany, according to The Independent. Today Dustin Brown, ranked 102nd in the world, is celebrating a stunner in the tennis world, knocking out two-time Wimbledon champ Rafael Nadal in four sets: 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. It’s the first time…
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$3,000,000 Donated to Scholarship Fund for Emanuel AME Church Community
A $3 million scholarship fund set up in the name of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney was announced Thursday in Charleston, S.C., scene of the horrific mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, including Pinckney, who was also a state senator. Here is an excerpt from the press release…
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Finding Your Roots Season Delayed by PBS Over Ben Affleck Story
The third season of the ancestry-research program Finding Your Roots, hosted by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., has been postponed by PBS after a determination that an episode of the program featuring actor Ben Affleck violated the network’s standards. In a strongly worded statement, PBS announced that the network is “postponing the scheduling of…
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‘Take Dat’: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Allegedly Attacks Son’s Football Coach
Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly been arrested for allegedly attacking a UCLA football coach who made the mistake of ignoring him, TMZ reports. Strength-and-conditioning coach Sal Alosi allegedly “screamed intensely” at Combs’ son Justin Combs, who plays defensive back for the Bruins. According to law enforcement, Combs swung a kettlebell weight at Alosi after the…
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