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‘Have You Gone to See Your Granddaughter Yet?’: Fans Urge Mo’Nique to Focus on Healing Relationship with Estranged Son Shalon Instead of Fueling Longtime Beef with Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey

May 3, 2024
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Comedian Mo’Nique has revamped her routine on Katt Williams’ The Dark Matter Tour. Video footage circulating online features a segment where she encourages the audience to curse her longtime enemies Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry. While the crowd seemed to crack up at her jokes, some folks aren’t finding her updated act amusing and are…

Gentrification In Philadelphia: How W.E.B. Du Bois Predicted Neighborhood Changes 125 Years Ago Still Matters

May 3, 2024
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A gentrified urban industrial area is seen from an Amtrak train bridge on October 18, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | Source: Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Society Hill, where Sixers star Joel Embiid recently put his penthouse condo on the market for $5.5 million, has long been one of Philadelphia’s most exclusive neighborhoods. It’s a distant…

‘Stupid N****r’: White Missouri Teen Was Suspended for One Day for Repeatedly Using Racial Slur In the School Bathroom Sparking Calls for Harsher Disciplinary Measures

May 3, 2024
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Videos posted to social media showing a young, white Christian school student repeatedly saying the N-word has triggered calls for more severe punishments for students who use racial slurs and hate speech. The Kansas City Defender reported on two videos, originally posted on Snapchat last October, showing the student in a school bathroom saying, “You…

‘Brothers to the End’: Bobby Brown and Ralph Tresvant’s Onstage Reunion Has New Edition Fans Feeling Nostalgic, Years After Settling Their Beef

May 3, 2024
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It’s been six years since “My Prerogative” singer Bobby Brown cropped fellow vocalist Ralph Tresvant out of a group New Editon photo online, but the two appear to have buried their past beef and fans are excited about it. Tresvant joined Brown on stage as he performed for The Tom Joyner Foundation’s Fantastic Voyage 2024…

North Carolina’s Anti-DEI Bill Is Detrimental To Black Maternal Health, Advocates Say

May 3, 2024
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Source: FatCamera / Getty Heath advocates in North Carolina are sounding the alarm on the state’s proposed anti-DEI bill targeting federally-funded medical schools. Some believe if the legislation passes that it could have a detrimental effect on the work the medical schools are doing to combat the Black maternal health crisis. In March, North Carolina…

Imagine This… Monkey’: Michigan Deputy Who Was Caught on Camera Buying Drugs and Spewing Racial Slurs Hired As Cop in the Same County After Termination

May 3, 2024
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A Michigan news outlet’s investigation revealed how a former deputy slipped through the cracks of a background check and went on to be hired by a police department after he was fired from a sheriff’s office for going on a racist rant as he was on the way to buy drugs using a squad car….

2024 HBCU Commencement Speakers: Full List Of People Giving Keynote Addresses To Black College Graduates

May 3, 2024
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Claflin University held its Spring Commencement Convocation with former South Carolina Representative Bakari Sellers to serve as keynote speaker on May 6, 2023, at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. | Source: Claflin University / Getty College graduation season is upon us as students across the country prepare to embark on the next stages of…

Fans Attacked Jada Pinkett Smith for Giving 12-Year-Old Willow ‘Too Much Freedom,’ Which Led to Willow Shaving Her Head In Rebellion Amid ‘Whip My Hair’ Breakdown

May 3, 2024
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Willow Smith, the daughter of actors Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, recently revealed why her mother allowed her to shave her head as a 12-year-old. The 23-year-old musician encountered fame when she was just 9 following the success of her single, “Whip My Hair.” In an interview published in Allure, Smith explained that it…

Online Backlash Over Foundation Shade Resembling Blackface Forces Makeup Brand to Disable Comments on Social Media In Wake of Influencer’s Video

May 3, 2024
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A makeup brand is being forced to take extreme measures to quiet online backlash after being called out when its attempt to expand its foundation’s shade range teetered the line of racism. Youthforia, which describes itself as a “universal” clean and sustainable makeup company that believes makeup should be an extension of skin care, was founded…

Attorney Convicted After Paying an Undercover FBI Agent Posing as a Hitman to Murder His Ex-Wife Because It ‘Was Cheaper’ to ‘Get Rid of Her’

May 3, 2024
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A federal judge sentenced a Massachusetts attorney to 10 years in prison for paying a hitman to murder his ex-wife. Allen Gessen, 49, was convicted of murder for hire after evidence revealed he tried to hire an undercover FBI agent he believed was a contract killer to murder his former partner and the mother of…