About a week after Steven Mikac began taking antibiotics for the strange spot on his leg, the flesh around his ankle started to tighten and swell. The moist orifice of a wound opened up and took the form of a small bullet hole. A plug of tissue had gone missing—dissolved …
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Summer 2020 may not be the summer you expected, but that doesn’t mean that the fun ends. Take it inside with weekly family movie nights or create an intimate date night. BET+ has over 1,500 hours of programming between exclusives, original content, and classic movies. Check out the newest releases …
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Closeup of an African American female entrepreneur working online with a laptop while sitting at her table at home Growing up as a teen in the 90s, when we said someone “hustled,” we usually meant they sold drugs or some other parallel business. Now 24 years past Jay-Z’s seminal album, …
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Share0 Image via @ceotreybrown/Instagram Fashion isn’t the easiest industry to break into. One boy was not only able to beat the odds and launch his own clothing brand but he also was able to catch the eye of music and fashion mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. Philadelphia native Trey Brown is …
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Hip-Hop legend and Public Enemy frontman Chuck D says that young people should take the lead in the political spectrum because the current leadership is running out of time. Speaking with TMZ Live, the legendary social protest rapper shared his thoughts on the 2020 election and the social unrest of …
Read More »Screenshot: @makaysmith10 (Twitter In this moment in time when white people are losing their minds and pointing weapons at Black people willy-nilly (as well as verbally assaulting them, calling the cops on them, and otherwise threatening their lives and well-being) here is an example of exactly what needs to happen …
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A 2018 clip has resurfaced of Viola Davis shutting down comparisons between her and Meryl Streep, especially when she isn’t being paid fairly. Viola Davis co-starred with Meryl Streep in the 2008 film Doubt, which earned her an Oscar nomination. By 2017, Davis would win an Oscar for Best Supporting …
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Emily Dickinson wrote a letter to a stranger in 1870 in which she asked the recipient, the writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to read a few of her poems. The letter sparked an enduring correspondence between the two, who became friends before eventually meeting eight years later. The friendship was said …
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After partnering with BET Networks on a new BET Her initiative, producer Tressa Azarel Smallwood will assist four notable Black Hollywood celebrities in directing for women-centered original short films. Kim Fields (Living Single), Sheryl Lee Ralph (Sister Act 2), Vanessa Bell Calloway (Coming to America), and Victoria Rowell (Dumb and …
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In an unsurprising move, an Atlanta detective involved in the investigation of the killing of Rayshard Brooks by officer Garrett Rolfe is siding with Rolfe, saying that the cop, who was fired and is facing felony murder charges, was justified in firing his gun at Brooks. RELATED: Ex-Atlanta Police Officer …
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