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OK, I'm Happy for Ciara
If you have spent the slightest amount of time on Black Twitter or Black Instagram since 2015, you have probably come across a tweet or IG post about Ciara. And if you’ve seen a post about the singer/dancer/Russell Wilson muse—who dropped a new single and music video on Wednesday —you probably fall into one of…
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That Time in High School That I Didn't Get Hired at McDonald's
I don’t know about you, but where I lived in the mid-90s, there weren’t many places for a high schooler to get a job, or so I thought, anyway. Close to me was the world’s most perseverant Hardee’s of all time, McDonald’s, a Bruno’s and a Winn-Dixie, the last two both grocery stores. Well, it…
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Watch: NFL Cornerback Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones Gets Into a Full-On Fist Fight With an Atlanta Airport Employee
Free-agent cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones has a checkered past, but if the footage from a recent video is to be believed, then the fistfight he had with an employee at an Atlanta airport was not his fault. According to TMZ Sports, which obtained video of the incident, Jones was reportedly walking through the airport with…
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Lakeith Stanfield Apologizes for Homophobic ‘Freestyle’ [Updated]
Updated: Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 6:35 EDT: A very contrite and possibly quite high Lakeith Stanfield took to Instagram on Tuesday after news broke that he had taken part in a “freestyle rap” (he was reading, so … ) that included the word “fag” and other anti-gay lyrics. Stanfield began his mea culpa by saying,…
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Atlanta Mayor Sends Message to Trump That She Won’t Allow ICE Detainees to Be Housed in City’s Jails
On Wednesday, newly elected Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that she is no longer allowing city jails to accept detainees from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On the same day that the president signed an executive order that would stop the separation of children from their loved ones at the U.S. border, Bottoms signed…
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Gucci Mane Pleaded Guilty in 2011 to Pushing Woman From Moving Car [Corrected]
Correction: Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 11:23 a.m. EDT: This story was originally written based on a story from April 2011. We apologize for the error. The “Ice Cream” rapper was arrested in April of 2011 on a battery charge stemming from an incident that took place at the top of the same year. The rapper…
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Now Switch! Insecure Will Cover Masculinity, Atlanta Will Focus on Women, in Upcoming Seasons
Regardless of our dating or even sexual preferences, black men and black women are inextricably tied—by history, by culture, by blood, even by disdain and death at the hands of law enforcement. And so, in what is an interesting twist of fate, it looks like the upcoming seasons of two remarkable shows, one created by…
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Bodak Rainbow? Cardi B Proves She’s a Unicorn, Rocking a Rainbow Mane With Her Baby Bump
Cardi B continues to prove that pregnancy won’t dampen her style. The Invasion of Privacy rapper-singer stepped out in Atlanta Wednesday night with fiance Offset wearing waist-length locks in a full spectrum of colors, courtesy of hairstylist Cliff Vmir. Makeup artist Erika La’Pearl complemented the look with a flawless face and starry eyes, which she…
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The Unofficial Gag Order of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown): 16 Years in Prison, Still Not Allowed to Speak
At the modern intersection of Islamophobia and the Black Lives Matter movement resides Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown), the now forgotten civil rights activist and revolutionary leader who, 16 years ago this year, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Fulton County, Ga., Sheriff’s Deputy Ricky Leon Kinchen and the wounding of…
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Georgia Medical Examiner Rules CDC Employee Timothy Cunningham’s Death Suicide by Drowning
The death of Timothy Cunningham, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee who went missing in early February, only for his body to be found in the Chattahoochee River in early April, has been determined to be a suicide by drowning, the Fulton County, Ga., medical examiner revealed. As CBS 46 reports, the medical…