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Saturday Night Live is facing outrage by some Black folks on Twitter for its skit about a Black doctor trying to convince his family members to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Some are saying the bit promotes inaccurate and harmful stereotypes about Black people, while ignoring systemic racism in vaccine distribution. …

Danielle Leslie has produced million-dollar course creators by showing others how to turn their superpower into sales. But her own path to millions didn’t manifest overnight. It was prompted by an unexpected layoff that propelled her to new levels. In 2015, Leslie was given the infamous pink slip while working …

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Donald Trump is a con artist—and he wouldn’t even be a good one if his marks were smarter than a box of dull hammers and rusty nails. Most Americans realize that the Trump presidency was a four-year-long con and that the biggest suckers involved were …

A man accused of killing Hip Hop pioneer Jam Master Jay has reportedly pleaded not guilty to additional drug charges he was hit with in early March. According to the New York Post, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged Karl Jordan with one count of “conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent …

A former reality star had social media abuzz when she disclosed that infidelity in her relationship was not a dealbreaker. Mehgan James, of Bad Girls Club and Basketball Wives, appeared on Notorious Queens and chopped it up while drinking wine with other women. Someone posed a question about infidelity in …

Photo: Grigvovan (Shutterstock) Apparently, there is no place in America a Black person can go without experiencing racism—not even to the border of Canada. Three Black Customs and Border Protection officers have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging that CBP officers commonly target Black travelers for racial profiling …

Bhad Bhabie is reportedly a millionaire, thanks to the OnlyFans platform. In a new Instagram post, the rapper claims she made over $1 million on the exclusive content app, just six hours after launching her account on the NSFW content subscription service, according to Billboard. “Not bad for 6 hours,” …

Houston rapper Boosie Badazz was not a happy camper after a fan mistook the 38-year-old man for Public Enemy’s iconic hypeman Flavor Flav at an airport. On Saturday, he took to his new Instagram account with a curse-filled rant about the hilarious case of mistaken identity.  The post caption read, …

Photo: Bennian (Shutterstock) It appears that a lot of police officers think that being led in a car chase justifies them beating the shit out of Black people once they’ve caught up with them. From Antonio Harris to Ronald Greene to Javier Ambler, their cases remind us that there are …

Carl Phillips, the former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, has often described poetry as a way to wrestle with ambiguity—to attempt to contain it. “Poetry is a form of control,” he once said. So Phillips chooses subjects—love, power, freedom, grief—that are particularly hard to grasp. In “As From …