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Model, Restaurateur and Author, B. Smith Dead at Age 70 of Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
Image: File Barbara Elaine Smith, professionally known as B. Smith, died Saturday, February 22, 2020 of Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, according to her family. The 2010 Black Enterprise’s Women of Power Legacy Award Recipient, was known for hosting her own television show, owning high-end restaurants and being an esteemed published author. …
Read More »Sunday's Best Deals: A TaoTronics Humidifier, Urban Outfitters 20% Off Sale, RAVPower Chargers, and More
Best Deals of the DayBest Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily. A TaoTronics humidifier, a Kindle books Gold Box, a RAVPower Charger, and an Urban Outfitter’s 20% off sale lead Sunday’s most amazing deals of the day. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on …
Read More »<em>Whistleblower</em> Has a Hidden Power
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber by Susan Fowler Viking Just over three years ago, on February 19, 2017, Susan Fowler published a blog post. “I’ve gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my …
Read More »The 2020 NAACP Image Awards Winners
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Read More »Bustin’ The Beat: Go-Go Officially Designated As the Music of Washington D.C.
Late Grammy nominee Chuck Brown, photographed here in 2011, was observed as the Godfather of the Go-Go sound, which dates back to the mid-1960s in D.C. Photo: Chris Pizzello (Associated Press) Chuck Brown would be proud. Chocolate City finally – officially – has its own sound, on the books. This …
Read More »Bernie Sanders’s Biggest Win Yet
Read: Bloomberg’s beating Second, while former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg again split the moderate vote, Sanders has—at least for now—consolidated the left wing of the Democratic Party behind him. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s forceful performance in Wednesday’s Las Vegas debate came too late …
Read More »School Assigned Students A Project About ‘African Animals’
Parents are speaking out after their children were assigned a project about “African animals” for Black History Month. Three white kindergarten teachers at Sutherland Elementary, a neighborhood Chicago Public School rooted in Beverly, Illinois, thought of a bizarre Black History Month assignment and sent children home with a note that …
Read More »As Erykah Badu's Vagina-Scented Incense Sells Out, She Sings on Morning TV with Daughter Puma In Celebration of Her Forthcoming 49th Birthday
Erykah Badu and her daughter Puma sings on “Good Morning Texas.”Photo: screengrab (WFAA) Tis’ The Season. Erykah Badu (a.k.a. Lo Down Loretta Brown a.k.a. Badulla Oblongata a.k.a. Sara Bellum a.k.a. Analogue Girl in a Digital World and a.k.a. Manuela Maria Mexico) is getting closer to the Big 5-0. On Feb. …
Read More »The Problem With Amazon’s Nazi-Hunters Show
The star of this Baudrillardian spectacle is indubitably Al Pacino playing Meyer Offerman, the serene overseer of a band of vigilante Nazi hunters in 1977 New York. But the show, created by the relative newcomer David Weil and produced by Jordan Peele, is loyal to comic-book origin stories, and so …
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