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Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer (Getty Images) A rediscovered Saturday Night Live sketch from 2000 featuring Jimmy Fallon impersonating Chris Rock by wearing blackface made the rounds over the weekend, and many internet folk were calling out The Tonight Show’s host for the bit. After receiving backlash for the skit, Fallon tweeted …
Read More »America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
The Florida Keys are a place where deer stand next to children at school-bus stops. They lounge on lawns. They eat snacks right out of people’s hands. So when the deer began acting strangely in the summer of 2016, the people of the Keys noticed. Bucks started swinging their heads …
Read More »Gayle King Visibly Shaken After Racially Charged Incidents
Journalists pride themselves on composure and objectivity, but sometimes a story just hits too close to him. That went double for Gayle King on Tuesday, who appeared shaken while reporting on two big stories of Black lives being threatened by white people. The first involved Amy Cooper, the woman in …
Read More »A Disproportionate Number of Black Business Owners Are Out of Work Amid the Pandemic
Photo: Shutterstock At this point in the game, we know that COVID-19 has had a disproportionate effect on black people in terms of infection rates and death. Now, news of the economic impact of the virus on black businesses is raising concerns that the damage will be felt long after …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: One Hundred Thousand
3. In the U.K., Boris Johnson’s top adviser is implicated in a social-distancing scandal. Dominic Cummings, an architect of the Brexit campaign, appears to have broken lockdown laws. “For Johnson and his team, a touch more Churchillian circumspection—rather than just bulldog bravado—might have saved them a lot of the moral …
Read More »I Was a Soul Train Dancer: Affion Crockett
This comedian didn’t expect to get his break as a dancer. Source link
Read More »Megan Thee Stallion Just Raised Her Price With Her 1st Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 for 'Savage' Remix
Megan Thee Stallion performs on stage, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in Atlanta.Photo: Paul R. Giunta (Invision/AP) Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé can add “No. 1 on the Hot 100” to the list of self-proclaimed attributes—classy, bougie, ratchet, sassy, moody and nasty!—in their “Savage Remix.” It’s official—after debuting at No. 2, …
Read More »‘This Is What We Train For’
During our five years of travel around the country, my husband Jim and I often found that artists who revealed the perspectives on their hometowns were the people who stopped us in our tracks. It might be the mural painters in Ajo, Arizona, or Charleston, West Virginia; or the public-art …
Read More »NeNe Leakes’ Nemesis Yovanna Momplaisir Drops Diss Track
Yovanna Momplaisir made her Real Housewives of Atlanta debut as NeNe Leakes’ friend. Now, the two are heated rivals and things don’t look like they’ll be getting any friendlier between the two any time soon. Amid news that she’s coming back to RHOA as a peach-holding cast member (not just …
Read More »A Handmaid’s Tale About the Coronavirus: Why (Some) White People Want to Be Oppressed So Badly
A protester dressed as a character from the novel-turned-TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” walks into the Senate Hart building on October 4, 2018.Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS (Getty Images) I will never understand why some white people (notice I didn’t say “all white people,” so please don’t email me explaining how you …
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