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Dave Chappelle speaks onstage during the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City.Photo: Kevin Winter for NARAS (Getty Images) In the opening of Dave Chappelle’s newest comedy special on Netflix, The Closer, he tells his Detroit audience: “Comedians have a responsibility …
Read More »The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants
Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin Consider the dressing room. The concept began its mass-market life as an amenity in Gilded Age department stores, a commercial sanctuary of pedestals and upholstered furniture on which to swoon over the splendid future of your wardrobe. Now, unless you’re rich enough to sip gratis …
Read More »Taraji P. Henson Pranked Gabrielle Union With Nudes
Taraji P. Henson is revealing how good she is at pranking people. The actress and friend Gabrielle Union joined James Corden for Tuesday’s (October 5) episode of The Late Late Show and detailed a raunchy prank she pulled on Union. The Empire actress says she got the idea from herself …
Read More »Become Your Own Apple Genius With This Tech-Repair Subscription
Apple’s continual release of products has benefitted millions in various ways. Instead of just having access to a phone, the tech behemoth also offers iPads that rival certain laptops along with music devices and an Apple TV subscription platform that negates the need for traditional cable services. While these options …
Read More »Black Worker Claiming Discrimination Wins $100,000 Settlement With City of San Diego
Photo: Ken Levine (Getty Images) San Diego is paying a former city laborer nearly $100,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming he was discriminated against because of his race and complaints he made about unsafe working conditions. According to The Hill, Demetris Wimberley, a Black man who worked in the city’s …
Read More »Writing Should Be a Visual Art
The first books I read in my childhood contained images: five kids talking to a large policeman (Enid Blyton); a child looking in horror at a man who has escaped from prison, in the light of a fire (an abridged Charles Dickens); a tiger and a snake (Rudyard Kipling). Those …
Read More »Latto Sizzles In A Bodysuit At The 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards
Latto looked like a fantasy for her performance at the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards! The “Big Energy” rapper served major looks in a red fringe bodysuit and matching boots which was complimented by 6-inch embellished stiletto nails and extra long black hair. Keep scrolling to see how she brought big …
Read More »Alfonso Ribeiro Shows His Soulful Side By Belting Out Michael Jackson and Bruno Mars Songs
We can basically be guaranteed to laugh (or at least chuckle) anytime Alfonso “Carlton Banks” Ribeiro shows up to an event! Although the multi-talented actor, singer and America’s Funniest Videos host, recently said he’s not accepted by Black people, he recently took to a stage and belted out some soulful …
Read More »Black People Disproportionately Died of COVID-19 Last Year, Study Says
In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, photo a person receives their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at Howard University, in Washington.Photo: Jacquelyn Martin (AP) In the past year, we have heard that Black people were disproportionately affected by the pandemic when it comes to job loss, …
Read More »In One Place, for One Fish, Climate Change May Be a Boon
This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit investigative-news organization. On a mid-July afternoon, when the tide was starting to come in on the Naknek River, the Bandle family’s commercial fishing nets lay stretched across the beach, waiting for the water to rise. …
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