Tabitha Brown attends the Mercy For Animals 20th Anniversary Gala at The Shrine Auditorium on September 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) Actress Tabitha Brown used her love for vegan food as a vehicle to gain fame via the exponentially …
Read More »What Kenya Barris Doesn’t Understand About <em>#BlackAF</em>
#BlackAF aims to reframe and expound on Barris’s personal narrative in a more self-aware, satirical context, but it ends up just repeating all the same notes from Black-ish. Without fresh source material, Barris fails to bring new complexity and depth to the ecosystem he has created. He steps into the …
Read More »DMX reached 14,000 while reading Bible verses on Instagram Live to get through pandemic
DMX took to Instagram Live to read Bible verses to his followers With COVID-19 forcing many to stay home, artists and DJ’s have used social media as a method to reach fans during the pandemic. Rapper and actor DMX joined in on Friday, but instead of offering music, he offered …
Read More »Scarface Shares A Sad Coronavirus Update
Last month, a visibly shaken Scarface revealed he tested positive with the coronavirus during an interview with Willie D, and now, sadly, it seems that his condition has worsened. During another recent interview with his fellow Geto Boy member, the Houston native revealed that the same day he let his …
Read More »Black Woman Dies From Coronavirus After Being Turned Away 4 Times From Hospital She Worked at for Decades
Screenshot: Fox 2 Detroit The disproportionate number of black people who are dying from the coronavirus disease continues to grow. Deborah Gatewood, a 63-year-old healthcare worker who lived and worked in Michigan, died earlier this month from COVID-19 complications. Her daughter is now speaking out about what she describes as …
Read More »Billionaires get $282 billion richer, 26 million Americans file jobless claims during pandemic
A person rides a bike down Wall Street on April 02, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Coronavirus has hit Americans hard. More than 50,000 have died of complications, more than 939,000 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and tens of millions are out of work. …
Read More »Melania Trump’s Birthday Gift
Here’s a screenshot of the form included on the web page where email recipients were urged to “sign” the “card”: In my experience, people earnestly collecting signatures for a birthday card don’t typically solicit the zip codes, email addresses, and mobile numbers of signatories, whereas political operatives find great value …
Read More »Erykah Badu Speaks To Fans Hoping She'll Battle Lauryn Hill
Last week’s battle between Babyface and Teddy Riley, organized by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland for their VERZUZ series, drew record numbers that damn near broke Instagram. Now, fans are looking to Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill for the next face-off. When one of Badu’s followers proposed the idea to her …
Read More »Calls to Poison Centers Across the Country Have Gone Up Since Trump Talked About Injecting Disinfectant
Photo: Shutterstock Correlation doesn’t necessarily equal causation, but it’s hard to say we didn’t see this coming after the president ruminated out loud a few days ago on the usefulness of injecting disinfectant into the body as a kind of “cleaning” to get rid of the coronavirus. Poison Centers across …
Read More »A Republican Rising Star’s Plan to Reopen America
[Read: The social-distancing culture war has begun] Green: I think your record shows that you’re a classic Republican in one sense: You believe in promoting small business and creating opportunities through the private sector. But in your book, you also criticize people who would rather wage a culture war that …
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