Earlier this month, French Montana pissed off social media when he took to his Instagram and posted a video spoiler of the midseason premiere of Power on January 5. The move was the culmination of a battle French was having with 50 Cent, who is the Starz series’ executive producer. …
Read More »If the National Archives Blurs Anti-Trump Speech From its Exhibits, is it Really an Archive?
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) There’s a large 49-by-69-inch photograph in the National Archives Museum in Washington D.C. which celebrates the centennial of women’s suffrage by depicting the massive crowd that filled Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the Women’s March on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. …
Read More »Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix Show Is Painful to Watch
But to watch The Goop Lab as a series, with its arcing assumptions about the limitations of medical science, is also to wonder where to locate the line between open-mindedness and gullibility. It is to wonder why Gwyneth Paltrow, celebrity and salesperson, should be trusted as an arbiter of health. …
Read More »Mom Of 9-Year-Old Who Committed Suicide Sues School
McKenzie Adams, a 9-year-old girl who had dreams of becoming a scientist, committed suicide at her grandmother’s home in Linden, Alabama in in December 2018. Now, her mother is suing her elementary school for failing to protect the young girl. Jasmine Adams is reportedly suing US Jones Elementary School not …
Read More »Tom Steyer Picks Up 3 Black Surrogates From the Carolinas
Tom Steyer with former president of the North Carolina Democratic Party’s African American Caucus Linda Wilkins-Daniels and Johnnie Cordero, president of the Black Caucus of the South Carolina Democratic Party, at the co-moderating the “Conversation with Tom Steyer” event at Clinton College, in Rock Hill, S.C. Photo: Courtesy of the …
Read More »Eminem Slips Into the Mind of the Las Vegas Shooter
Eminem has followed Madonna’s example with the music video for “Darkness,” the first single off the album, Music to Be Murdered By, that he surprise-released today. It re-creates the Las Vegas slaying of 58 people, with an actor playing Stephen Paddock, the perpetrator. Eminem raps from the perspective of Paddock …
Read More »Kodak Black Claims He's Strategically Being Killed In Prison
Kodak Black has been going through a lot since being locked up in May of last year. Previously, the Florida rapper claimed he was drugged before getting into a jailhouse fight, and now, he’s claiming the prison he’s being incarcerated at is trying to kill him slowly. On Thursday (January …
Read More »Oprah Cancels Production On #MeToo Doc About Russell Simmons
Oprah Winfrey, center, stands with Russell Simmons, right, and other mourners as the casket enters for the funeral of Eunice Kennedy Shriver at Saint Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church in the Hyannis section of Barnstable, Mass., Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Oprah Winfrey has pulled the plug on her involvement in …
Read More »Diamond and Silk Are Still a Thing and They're Still Ruining Madam C.J. Walker's Good Work
Photo: Paul Morigi (Getty Images) God doesn’t make mistakes, but people do. And sometimes those mistakes look like black aunties, who, in 2020 the year of our Lord Megan Thee Stallion, have the sensibilities of house negroes on dope. Anyway, because, much like cold sores and dentist appointments, they just …
Read More »Stephen King’s Comments About the Oscars Explain the Oscars
For those who have followed the industry’s responses to widespread calls for greater diversity, especially since the #OscarsSoWhite campaign began five years ago, cycles like this are a familiar part of the awards season. After a Golden Globes that featured many presenters of color but a primarily white set of …
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