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The 2018 BET Awards Nominees Are …
Does it look like I was left off “Bad and Boujee”? Seems like it was forever ago, but it was just last year at the BET Awards red carpet that hip-hop trio Migos sat or, uhm, stood with Complex’s Everyday Struggle hosts DJ Akademiks, Nadeska Alexis and (*cough* former host) Joe Budden, thus creating a…
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Solo: A Star Wars Story: A Promising Prequel With an Even More Promising Lando
The trouble with prequels is that it’s hard to raise the stakes when you already know certain characters are going to live. And in the same vein, you can predict who’s going to die, but Solo: A Star Wars Story was able to capture the exploration of a pre-New Hope universe with fun dialogue and…
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Bad Publicity Only Works for the Kardashians
In case you haven’t heard, no one showed up to Kanye West’s Yeezy X 2XU event in Sydney. First of all, I didn’t even know this was happening or a thing; nor do I know who or what a 2XU is. If I know anything about Kanye, I figure that this is a fashion collaboration…
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Spike Lee Rips Donald Trump: ‘That Motherfucker Did Not Denounce the Motherfucking Klan’
Spike Lee is not a man to mince words, and during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival to promote his upcoming film BlacKkKlansman, the prolific director ripped President Donald Trump a new one because of his refusal to denounce the Ku Klux Klan after the Unite the Right white supremacy rally in August…
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Michaela Coel, Clearly Not Looking Like a Flight Attendant, Gets Mistaken for … a Flight Attendant
Virgin Atlantic flight attendants are pretty hard to miss. There are the ketchup-red blazers and pencil skirts, for one, with or without a jaunty, colorful neckerchief to match. There are the sensible shoes that are both professional and polished but can also withstand hours of wear while one’s feet swell up. There are the, I…
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Willow Smith Shocks Mom With Self-Harm Admission
Willow Smith, daughter of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, opened up about a painful secret she hid from her family for years. Willow, who is now 17 years old, appeared on the second episode of Jada’s Red Table Talk series and spoke of losing her sanity and about cutting herself after she skyrocketed to…
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Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols Given Conservators Because of Dementia: Report
Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura, will have four new people handling her financial affairs as her son, Kyle Johnson, says she’s suffering from dementia. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson granted the temporary conservatorship to professional fiduciaries, though she did not have doctor’s proof that Nichols is suffering from the disease.…
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Woman Who Called the Cops on Oakland, Calif., Family Becomes Viral Meme
“Hello, Officer, it’s me, Susan. I’ve entered what I think to be a racist black site called The Root? They keep calling me Becky and pushing the gay agenda. Officer, I even think they’re trying to ruin the black family by taking out straight black men!! I don’t feel safe.” It seems that black people…
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Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman Gets Standing Ovation at Cannes
Filmmaker Spike Lee’s latest offering, BlacKkKlansman, is set to be released on Aug. 10, the one-year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville, Va., white nationalist rally. At its world premiere in Cannes, the film received 10 minutes of applause and standing ovation. As the Hollywood Reporter notes, Lee was previously overlooked for the Palme d’Or in…
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Black Oakland Electric Slides on Racism by Throwing Big-Ass Cookout in Park Where White Lady Called Cops [Updated]
Updated: Monday, May 14, 2018, 6:40 p.m. EDT: The massive cookout that saw a gang (ooh, should I use that word? Hells yea!) of black Oaklanders descend on the park at Lake Merritt days after a white woman called the police on a black family for grilling there had been planned weeks before. It just…