Sy’rai Smith, Brandy Norwood’s daughter, is getting into the family business. The 17-year-old has released a new single on Saturday (April 18). The track, produced by Brandy’s nephew Aaron Smith, is called “At Your Best” and is a tribute to Aaliyah’s 1994 single “At Your Best (You Are Love).” Brandy …
Read More »The Teddy Riley vs. Babyface Instagram Battle Managed to Be Too Much and Too Little All at Once
Photo: Bennett Raglin (Getty Images) Over 400,000 people tuned in Saturday night for what was supposed to be the much anticipated Instagram battle between two music giants but ended up being an awkward, clumsy, cringe-worthy non-spectacle that ended in the whole thing being called on account of clusterfuck and postponed….again. …
Read More »Vanessa Bryant Wishes Kobe A Happy 19th Anniversary
Today marks Vanessa Bryant’s first wedding anniversary since the death of her husband Kobe Bryant, and she paid tribute to her late partner with a touching Instagram post and a throwback photo that reminds us just how long the two have been in love. “My king, my heart, my best …
Read More »Racist Carrollton High School Students Expelled After N-Word Cooking Video Goes Viral
Screenshot: Daily Mail (YouTube) Some students at Carrollton High School in Carrollton City, Georgia managed to get themselves expelled—despite class not being in session due to the ongoing national health emergency—because they hadn’t yet figured out that viral racism has consequences. Newsweek reports that one white male and one white …
Read More »The Coronavirus Prayer
Gabriel Zimmer Dear Lord, In this our hour of doorknobs and droplets, when masks have canceled our personalities; in this our hour of prickling perimeters, sinister surfaces, defeated bodies, and victorious abstractions, when some of us are stepping into rooms humid with contagion, and some of us are standing in …
Read More »Meghan Markle To Give Her First Interview Since 'Megxit'
The last time we saw Meghan Markle speak, she seemed deeply unhappy with her life in the United Kingdom. Now, the actress and former royal is giving her first interview since leaving England and the Royal Family behind and moving to Los Angeles with her husband Prince Harry. On Monday …
Read More »To Protect Black People in Face Masks, Democratic Senators Request Racial Bias Training for Police
Photo: Shutterstock Listen—Black people didn’t need a global pandemic to make us hyper-aware of our appearance and how we have to work a little harder than everyone else does to avoid being “suspicious-looking.” Hoodies, baggy pants and dark clothing are just a few things that have proven to increase the …
Read More »Don’t Spit! Pandemic Posters Through the Years
During these anxious times, we constantly check our hand computers for the latest updates, which make us still more anxious. Before technology allowed us to alarm ourselves with up-to-the-minute information, public-health messages were communicated using a fundamental graphic medium: the poster. Produced and displayed on a massive scale, these posters …
Read More »Trump Advisor Likens Reopen America Protestors To Rosa Parks
One of Donald Trump’s appointees to be a part of the White House council to reopen the country believes conservatives who are protesting Democratic governors to “reopen America” despite the obvious Covid-19 risks are like Rosa Parks. GOP strategist Stephen Moore made the comment this weekend in a Washington Post …
Read More »How to Negotiate Fearlessly—Even In Tough Times
In her first book, negotiation guru Mori Taheripour offers readers more than a decade of expertise honed as both a faculty member at the Wharton School of Business and adviser to organizations such as the NFL and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. Even in the midst of economic crisis, …
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