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During and after the brilliant 2013 Black Girls Rock event on Sunday, Nov. 3, some White girls and Black men on Twitter formed a grotesque alliance to silence and shame Black women for celebrating ourselves. For the fourth year in a row, BLACK GIRLS ROCK! founder and community activist Beverly Bond, joined with Black Entertainment Network (BET) to […]
Disgraced former Rep. Jesse Jackson could be released from federal prison on Dec. 31, 2015 if he acts like Dr. Conrad Murray and behaves himself while behind those bars. In case you don’t remember, most of us stopped respecting the offspring to one of the biggest Civil Rights leaders of our time, when we found […]
Kevin Hart is more than just a comedian turned hilarious actor. The Philadelphia born and bred funnyman decided to help out the struggling Philadelphia school system by donating a quarter of a million dollars! “I felt like the city was in a time of need. I feel like it’s good to step up and show […]
Now that George Zimmerman is a free man, one of the jurors (recognized as “Maddy”) from the controversial trial is now having second thoughts about the jury’s verdict. During an interview on Inside Edition’s with Les Trent this week, Maddy said, “We all know who’s guilty. George Zimmerman thinks he didn’t do anything wrong.” Maddy […]
Cue meteoric rise to stardom for Cory Booker–the first Black senator from New Jersey to be elected since President Obama won his seat in Illinois in 2004. The 44-year-old Senator was sworn in during a ceremony administered by Vice President Joe Biden. Booker was elected to fill out the term of the late Sen. Frank […]
The estranged wife of George Zimmerman, Shellie Zimmerman says he nailed a bullet-filled target to the wall of her home as a “subliminal message.” Radar Online obtained the photo Shellie is alleging George nailed on the wall. Shellie reportedly sent the photo to her lawyer, stating, “Look at the subliminal message George sent me.” As […]
Avonte Oquendo, a 14-year-old autistic New York City teen who has been missing for almost a month may have been spotted on an E or F train near West 4th earlier this week by a fellow train rider. The photo was taken by a 13-year-old boy who allegedly didn’t want to be identified because he […]
A prestigious global law firm, Clifford Chance, is coming under fire for the five-page memo that was sent to all the female employees in its two U.S. offices in New York and Washington, D.C. The memo’s intentions were to give their employees “a range of different viewpoints and approaches” with golden tips like, “don’t giggle,” […]
The exact same weekend we try to uplift our young Black women with the star-studded event Black Girls Rock, the Internet erupts in a racist firestorm with the offensive hashtag: “#StopBlackGirls2013.” This judgment-drenched hashtag littered Twitter timelines on Sunday with photos of various Black women — many of them being compared to zoo animals — […]
Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman costumes have began surfacing across social media and I’ll be honest with you; it never crossed my mind that people would think to tackle this sensitive topic for the ghoulish holiday. Two Florida men, Greg Cimeno (22) and William Filene (25) showed up to Caitlin Cimeno’s Halloween party dressed as […]
Looks like leaders for the District of Columbia think it’s high time to stop jailing small-time users of marijuana. According to The Washington Post: Ten…
Dr. Conrad Murray, the man most of the world has come to hate and know as the killer of Michael Jackson, has been released from prison early for good behavior. Good behavior? How does that happen? Dr. Murray served only two of his four-year sentence for giving the King Of Pop a lethal dose of […]
