kanye west
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Bad Publicity Only Works for the Kardashians
In case you haven’t heard, no one showed up to Kanye West’s Yeezy X 2XU event in Sydney. First of all, I didn’t even know this was happening or a thing; nor do I know who or what a 2XU is. If I know anything about Kanye, I figure that this is a fashion collaboration…
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Univision Bosses Incompetent, Staffers Write
Critical Report Appears on Own Websites USA Today Has Its First Publisher of Color Sun-Times Wants R. Kelly to ‘Pay the Price’ From Coates: ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’ Latest Falsehood: Black Support for Trump Doubled Cox Names Sharon Wilmore Editor in Ohio Elias Lopez Gets International Opinions Post Fatal Police Shootings of Unarmed Citizens…
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Kanye West Invades the Nevada Congressional Race, and Now I’m Forced to Write About Him
I almost made it. I had declared a personal moratorium on think pieces, social commentary or public statements about Kanye West. He’s a jackass, to quote Barack Obama, and unless you want to talk about 808s & Heartbreak or The Life of Pablo, I have basically refused to discuss his two-week cosplay as Stephen from…
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The All-American Question: Can You Truly Love Black People if You Date Outside the Race?
Whether it is about a same-sex, interracial or nonconforming relationship, as a rule, I tend not to involve myself in the question of whom other people choose to love, and it’s not because I have a self-righteous sense of egalitarian, progressive thinking. It’s mostly because I have one universal rule for other people’s masturbation, relationships…
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We Knew When Trump Said His Numbers Doubled Among the Blacks That He Was Lying. Here’s Why
Why anyone would believe anything Donald Trump says is beyond me. I mean, it has been proved that the president has lied at least 3,000 times since he took office. But the spin—and the media’s consistent repeating of it—doesn’t stop. Recently, Trump bragged about his support “doubling” among African Americans, but many of us, including…
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Hate the Player, Not the Game: On Loving the Art of R. Kelly, Kanye and Cosby
This weekend, while driving with my windows down in 86-degree, sunny springtime weather, my car’s playlist (mostly comedy, hip-hop and old-school R&B) shuffled randomly to a 26-minute story from a 1968 comedy album. As a lover of storytelling, I couldn’t bring myself to hit the skip button as the winding, 26-minute story from the album,…
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Making Donald Glover the ‘Anti-Kanye’ Is Gross and Wrong and Will Backfire, so Please Don’t
I spent Saturday evening in a room full of black people, celebrating the birthday of a friend and the genius possessed by two people who were not in that room: LeBron James and Donald Glover. The first part of our night was devoted to the second half of the Cleveland Cavaliers game, and as we…
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Donald Glover’s SNL Migos Parody Was Skrrt-Skrrt Perfect
It is only fitting that Donald Glover, in his first host-ship of Saturday Night Live, did a hilarious send-up of the Migos, the group he brought to a lot of folks’ attention when he won a 2017 Golden Globe for Atlanta. In the four-minute skit, the other two black guys on SNL, Kenan Thompson and…
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Nigerian Lawmaker Offers Kanye a Trip to Africa to Help Him Gather His Senses on Slavery
Kanye West’s antics have made it all the way to the Motherland and back, and suffice it to say, no one—in either hemisphere—is pleased. An outspoken Nigerian senator recently offered West a trip to several/any/all the slave ports on the continent for an education on slavery and the slave trade. He also said that the…
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3 Times American Slaves Did Rebel
There’s been a lot of talk about slavery lately, and sadly, some of it is wildly misinformed. For the record, enslaved black folks didn’t choose to be shackled, torn from their families, then bought and sold in the U.S., only to be tortured by slave owners. And some of them fought back.At minimum, there were…