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Here’s What Outrages Alicia Keys the Most About the AIDS Epidemic
There isn’t a cure for AIDS or HIV, but there is medicine that slows down the virus and allows people who have the disease to lead fairly healthy (and long) lives. When Alicia Keys found out that many women in South Africa didn’t have enough money to access HIV medicine, she told People magazine that…
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Solange Likely Woosahed Before Responding to an Instagram User Who Called Her Son Ugly
Exposing your loved ones to hate and ridicule is something that often comes with the territory when you’re a celebrity, but that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. Just ask Solange Knowles, who demonstrated how far she’s come in responding to criticism. And this time it was about her son, Daniel Julez Smith.…
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Tiger Woods’ Former Caddy: ‘It Was Like I Was His Slave’
Tiger Woods’ former golfing buddy and caddy Steve Williams is spilling the beans in a new memoir about his relationship with the golf icon, and a lot of it isn’t pretty. In Williams’ Out of the Rough, he said that he was kept in the dark when Woods’ extramarital affair blew up. In excerpts posted on…
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#TLCIsGoingToJailParty Tweets Are Clowning TLC for Their Phantom Kickstarter Album
The plan was that TLC were going to use the money raised from a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new album that they promised to release in October of this year. Well, October has come and gone. No new TLC album. Meanwhile, their Kickstarter campaign has raised over $400,000, greatly surpassing their initial goal of…
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Jamie Foxx to Quentin Tarantino: Keep Speaking the Truth About Police Brutality
Quentin Tarantino got himself into a lot of trouble recently when he referred to some deaths at the hands of police officers as “murder” at a rally denouncing police brutality. So much so that police unions across the nation have vowed to boycott his films. Well, he’s got a supporter in one of his former…
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Jerry Heller Is Suing Everyone Associated With Straight Outta Compton for $110,000,000
Jerry Heller—the lawyer who worked with Eazy-E to get Ruthless Records and N.W.A off the ground—warned people that he would watch Straight Outta Compton with his lawyers. He was insinuating that he would sue if the biopic portrayed him inaccurately. Well, he’s keeping his word. According to TMZ, Heller is suing nearly every person and…
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Serena Williams Has a Lot to Say About Technology and Black People’s Role in It
Serena Williams is all about breaking down barriers, particularly seeing black people inhabit and work in industries that have not traditionally coveted African Americans. In an as-told-to interview with Wired magazine, the tennis icon opened up about her interests in technology and the work she’s doing to get more black people to consider careers in…
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Black Twitter Is Going In on Billboard Magazine, Says It Crossed the Line With This Sexualized Tweet of North West
People beat up on Kim Kardashian West a lot, mainly for the way she was introduced to the mainstream (her sex tape with Ray J) and the idea that she’s “famous for being famous”—meaning that she has no real talent or skill to warrant all of her success. I think that characterization is a bit…
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#TBT: Remember When Joe Biden Schooled Our New Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, in That VP Debate?
A lot of political movement in the past few weeks: Vice President Joe Biden announced that he would not be throwing his hat into the presidential ring, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was elected speaker of the House Thursday. It has me reminiscing. These two guys, hands down, were responsible for some of the best political theater…
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Jill Scott on Spring Valley High Assault: It Should Be a Lot Harder for Police Officers to Become Police Officers
Jill Scott told the Huffington Post in a piece posted Wednesday that she used to be a teacher, so she knows how contentious it can sometimes get between students and teachers. Even so, Scott says she saw something different take place in the video that captured the assault at Columbia, S.C.’s Spring Valley High School,…
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