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Kanye West attends the WSJ Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards on November 6, 2019.Photo: Angela Weiss / AFP (Getty Images) Twenty-one years, twenty-one years… In his 2005 single “Gold Digger,” Kanye West lamented about the 18-year financial hold that child support has on a nigga to emphasize the length of time …
Read More »‘I Never Thought China Could Ever Be This Dark’
This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and the Fuller Project. On a summer afternoon nearly four years ago, Maryam Muhammet thought her family’s long journey to freedom was almost complete. The Uyghur woman had arrived in Istanbul from Egypt weeks prior with her two sons, a toddler and …
Read More »DMX’s Manager Combats ‘Inaccurate' Info About His Health
DMX currently remains in a coma while staying at a White Plains, New York hospital on Wednesday (April 7). The legendary rapper (born Earl Simmons) suffered a heart attack after a reported overdose last week, according to his attorney, and is in a “vegitative state.” According to X’s manager, Steve …
Read More »KKK Flyers Found On Huntington Beach One Week Before Planned White Lives Matter Rally
A number of flyers promoting the Ku Klux Klan were found in Los Angeles’s Huntington Beach one week before a planned “White Lives Matter” rally is set to take place. The KKK flyers were found on Easter Sunday, KTLA reports. Huntington Beach Police were tipped off about the racist propaganda …
Read More »Black Women on Covers for Springtime? Groundbreaking. No Seriously, Look at the Material
L-R: Viola Davis for Entertainment Weekly, Janet Mock for L’Officiel Turkey, and Regina King for Entertainment Weekly.Screenshot: AB+DM for Entertainment Weekly; Vanessa Feng for L’Officiel Turkey, AB+DM for Entertainment Weekly First things first: I’d like to thank Miranda Priestly—aka Meryl Streep—for flawlessly delivering that iconic line in The Devil Wears …
Read More »Tyler Perry Ends Quarantine Bubble At His Atlanta Studio
After being one of the first producers to safely restart TV production in April 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Tyler Perry will end his quarantine bubble at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta on Saturday (April 10). Deadline reports that the media mogul decided after a successful mass vaccination event at …
Read More »Akon To Build Second ‘Futuristic’ City In Uganda
R&B artist Akon wants to build an expansive “futuristic” city in Senegal, but before he has even broken ground, the “Smack That” singer has already made plans to build a second Akon City in Uganda. According to the Washington Post, both cities will be powered by the singer’s cryptocurrency called …
Read More »NYC Doormen Who Watched Anti-Asian Attack Fired For Not Intervening
The two doormen seen on surveillance video standing by and watching an anti-Asian attack against an elderly woman have been fired from their jobs. On Tuesday, it was announced that two New York City doormen were fired for failing to help an Asian American woman who was brutally attacked by …
Read More »Debates Around George Floyd’s Drug Use Continued as Multiple Forensic Scientists Took the Stand in Day 8 of the Chauvin Trial
Senior Special Agent James Reyerson of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Image: Court TV-Pool (AP) After over a week of testimonies, it’s become increasingly clear that the defense is leaning on the idea that George Floyd’s drug use was what caused …
Read More »The Crime Drama That Will Enthrall and Repel You
Read: 20 undersung crime shows to binge-watch The show is set in a version of modern-day London where a consortium of gangs, uneasily brought together by the Irish mobster Finn Wallace (played by Colm Meaney), is responsible for virtually all crime. When Finn is murdered in the first episode, his …
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