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8-Year-Old Protects Siblings While Mother Is Killed During Carjacking
An 8-year-old Missouri boy saved himself and his siblings as he watched his mother get shot to death. Porsha Owens, a mother of three, was killed Monday morning as she was leading her kids to her car to take them to day care. Fannie King told CBS News that her great-grandson told her about the…
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New Yeezy Campaign Features Nude ModelsÂ
Editorâs note: This post contains images of nude models. Yeezy taught meâwell, he tried. Now that Kanye West has released his new albums, Ye and Kids See Ghosts, heâs got time to devote to his Yeezy fashion line. With no warning, of course, we were ambushed on social media with pictures from his latest Yeezy campaign…
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Muslim Inmates Finally Granted Meals During Ramadan After Days With No Food
Inmates in Washington state have been losing more than 20 pounds each during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan because of prison policies, according to a lawsuit brought by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR contends that during Ramadan, prison officials are refusing to provide prisoners with food between sundown and sunrise, the only time…
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Cori âCocoâ Gauff Becomes Youngest Girlsâ Tennis Champion in 24 Years
Another black girl making history. Yes! It looks like black women will always be setting the standard for what tennis champions should embody. Cori âCocoâ Gauff, 14, became the youngest girl to win the junior title at the French Open since 1994. Gauff defeated Caty McNally 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1) in an all-American final to…
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Fashion No-No: Fashion Nova Let Men Down With the Launch of Its Menâs Collection
Your man may have thought he was about to be a high-fashion ho, but instead heâs going to be a hot mess. Fashion Nova debuted its menâs collection today, but most men arenât feeling the pieces. A quick poll of several gents revealed that they expected trendy outfits with patterns similar to the ones sold…
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Ilhan Omar, a Somali American, Seeks Seat in Congress
Ilhan Omar is a Somali-American politician who escaped from Somalia as a child, grew up in a Kenyan refugee camp and later immigrated to Minnesota. Years after immigrating, she became the nationâs first and only Somali-American lawmaker when she won a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Now she is ready to become the…
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Bye-Bye, Heat Damage; Hello, Protective Styles!
The relationship a black woman has with her hair is ever changing. One day our hair looks flawless; the next day weâre tying our hair down with a scarf to hold down our edges and whatever might be going on in the âkitchen.â Summer is always a trying time for us because of the humidity,…
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Wakanda Mess Is This? Teacher Believes Wakanda Is a Real Country After Studentâs Presentation
I canât believe wypipo really think Wakanda is real. A Marvel fanatic and college student, known as AlexeyShved1 on Reddit, gave a presentation on Wakanda, its economy and power struggle. The studentâs professor surely believed the presentation because sheâd never even heard of the Black Panther movie! The whole thing came about after the student…
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Spell It Out: Rico Nasty Debuts a New Mixtape With âNastyâ Edges
Rico Nasty announced that sheâs releasing her new project, Nasty, on the âgram. The mixtape is set to release June 15, and when fans saw the cover, they were shook. Rico, whose style is ever changing, was rocking nasty edgesâliterally. Her edges spelled out âNastyâ; check it: Aside from saying it with her edgesâwhich was…
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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz on Cover of Cultured Magazine as a Black Panther Power Couple
Alicia Keys-Dean and her producer hubby Kasseem âSwizz Beatzâ Dean look like a true power couple on the cover of Cultured Magazine. Black Power, that is. The cover is a re-creation of a 1970 photograph of Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and then-wife Kathleen Neal Cleaver taken by photographer Gordon Parks. The accompanying spread is…
