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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 …
Read More »Dwyane Wade Was Hesitant To Talk About Zaya’s Journey In Doc
Former NBA star Dwyane Wade sparked a national conversation about parenting when he announced that his 12-year-old child identifies as female and goes by the name Zaya. On February 11, he told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, “Me and my wife, Gabrielle Union, we are proud parents of a child …
Read More »#ReclaimYourVote: Black Male Voting Power
BET and CBS News recently conducted a mini-poll with African-Americans to better understand their concerns heading into election season. What was discovered is that in 2016, the Black voter turnout rate declined sharply, dropping below that of whites. It had been trending up since 1996. According to the poll, typical …
Read More »Ray J Says His Kids Are His Motivation To Work Hard
Ray J is pulling on heartstrings when he talks about his kids. The rapper, TV personality and successful entrepreneur says his motivation to work hard is his one-year-old daughter, Melody, and newborn son, Epik. “When I’m working hard, it’s all for them,” Ray J told People. “I want to make …
Read More »This 16-Year-Old Entrepreneur Makes $8K a Month Selling Her Own Hot Sauce
Tyla-Simone Crayton is a 16-year-old home-schooled teen entrepreneur from Houston. She is the CEO of Sienna Sauce, which started in April 2017. Crayton created the recipe for her special secret sauce when she was just 8 years old. Now, she is selling the award-winning sauce in over 60 retail stores, …
Read More »RuPaul Will Teach How To Be Fabulous In MasterClass
RuPaul has helped launch the career of hundreds of drag queens on the Emmy-winning show RuPaul’s Drag Race. And now he wants to teach you how to be your best self in a new online course. According to Entertainment Weekly, RuPaul, costume collaborator Zaldy and Drag Race season 2 runner-up …
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