Three years ago, gospel star Kim Burrell received backlash after going on a homophobic rant at the Love & Liberty Fellowship Church in Houston, Texas, during which she referred to LGBTQ people as “the perverted homosexual spirit.” The comments caused Burrell to be dropped from a scheduled performance with Pharrell on The …
Read More »Photo: Protesters rally at the state capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Wednesday. Photo by Paul Sancya (AP Images) Remember when Black Lives Matter protests were the scourge of the nation? How about when Colin Kaepernick started the trend of kneeling during the national anthem and conservative white America considered it …
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Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker are going strong as a couple, but may have hit a rough patch when it comes to parenting. The Real Housewives of Atlanta couple decided to sit down with a marriage counselor during the April 12 episode of the show to discuss how much time …
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✍️ Letters from T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale The haunting last letters of Sylvia Plath “It’s the letters home, the letters to her mother, that ring most pitifully with the strained note of heartiness that all melancholiacs will recognize: the daily effort of a depressed person to get over …
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Quarantine got you talking to yourself? You’re probably not alone. In fact, BET is giving celebrities the opportunity to express their feelings toward the things they miss most while social distancing. In our original video series LOVE LETTER, celebrities are given the chance to read a funny “love letter” aloud …
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Unemployed by COVID-19. That is the consequence being faced today by more Americans than ever in the nation’s history, with unemployment claims filed to date reaching more than 22 million and counting. If you are in that number, you need to act now to jump-start your career and quickly gain …
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(Image: Wikimedia) In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which is disproportionately affecting the African American community, Sean “Diddy” Combs announced that he is launching a new platform called “Black News” that promises to report news and issues impacting the black people. He added that the series will also focus …
Read More »Photo: Dave Kotinsky (Getty Images) Rapsody’s EVE is considered by some people to be the best hip-hop album of 2019 bar none (it’s me…I’m “some people”) and now, it has inspired courses at two universities. Doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tyler Bunzey announced via …
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Today R&B singer, songwriter and producer The-Dream is here to bring us all together for a 106&Park couchside concert! With a long list of songwriting and producing credits to his name, including hits from Rihanna, Beyonce’, Mariah Carey, Usher, Yung Joc, and many others, The-Dream has just what it takes …
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Just before the 2016 election, and then again after its results became clear, I did a series of Atlantic items on a challenge I thought the press was not prepared for. The challenge was dealing with a major political figure—Donald Trump—who fit no previous pattern of how presidents or other …
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