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Watch: Lunchables Platypus Raps Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Hypnotize’
In what is becoming a hilarious cottage industry (see Bert & Ernie’s rendition of “Regulate”), the Lunchables’ platypus is the latest make-believe character to jump into the rap game through some clever computer manipulation. Released on April Fools’ Day, YouTuber Joe Capo took the platypus and jackalope from Lunchables- commercial fame and mashed them up…
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Rihanna, Shonda Rhimes, Gladys Knight, Others Honored at Black Girls Rock!
As has been the case for the last few years, Black Girls Rock!—the annual celebration of all things black and female—didn’t disappoint. The venue was packed to the rafters with black celebrity women and others of note, with black women and their daughters, nieces and sister-friends coming together in celebration. Singer Rihanna, TV mogul Shonda…
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Black Boston Firefighter Sues Red Sox for Discrimination
An African-American Boston firefighter is suing the Red Sox after he says he was denied entry to Fenway Park to make a safety inspection in 2013, reports the Boston Globe. Robert C. Cox, 50, filed the civil complaint this week and seeks unspecified damages. According to the complaint, Cox, who is black, and two other…
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HBCU Professor Fired for Having on-Camera Sex With Students
A professor at Alabama A&M University was arrested and then terminated after a computer recovered at his home showed him engaging in oral sex with two students on campus, Al.com reports. Edward Jones, 51, was a tenured professor who spent more than 20 years at the HBCU, founded in 1870s, and most recently worked as…
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Pittsburgh TV Anchor Fired After Racist Facebook Post
A Pittsburgh-area news anchor was fired Wednesday after engaging in racial profiling of the worst kind on her official Facebook page, saying that the killers in a brutal area murder were “young black men,” reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. After a horrific mass shooting in early March in Wilkinsburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh, WTAE-TV news anchor Wendy…
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Coca-Cola Divests Significant Support From Republican National Convention
Coca-Cola, a longtime sponsor of the Republican National Convention, has declined to match the $660,000 it provided for the 2012 Republican National Convention, dropping its donation to $75,000 for this year’s gathering. At this point, most bets are on businessman Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee, and the New York Times reports that many companies…
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Microsoft Donates $1,000,000 to National Museum of African American History and Culture
Microsoft Corp. has just announced a donation of $1 million to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens this fall, WTOP reports. The museum, set to open its doors Sept. 24, will launch with 11 inaugural exhibitions covering major periods of African-American history and culture, from the Harlem Renaissance to…
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Watch: NYC Police Officers Bind Man’s Hands and Feet, Throw Him in Body Bag
In a disturbing video made public this week, New York City police officers are shown physically restraining a man by placing him in a head-to-toe enclosed body bag. The video, uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, shows an African-American man with his hands, feet and legs bound, lying facedown on the ground near a subway station…
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Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy of A Different World Reunite On-Screen
These days, the throwback is de rigueur on television, and it’s no different with the Disney Channel’s K.C. Undercover, which will soon reunite A Different World’s Dwayne Wayne with his paramour Whitley Gilbert, according to TVLine.com. K.C. Undercover, now in its second season, stars the darling Zendaya as K.C. Cooper, a high school student training to follow…
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Watch: Don Lemon Goes Off on Omarosa for Skirting Donald Trump Question
CNN anchor Don Lemon, never one to back down from controversy or a good confrontation, was in top form Friday as he mixed it up with former The Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault over Donald Trump—or, more precisely, the fact that Omarosa chose not to directly answer a question about Trump’s tweet about Republican presidential candidate…
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