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June 28, 2017
A Boise restaurant owner recently found himself in hot water over a Facebook video promoting his menu. Brad Breakell is…
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June 28, 2017
On Tuesday, a California father accused of murdering his son to get back at his ex laughed and joked with…
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June 28, 2017
A woman was found dead in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart three days after she entered the store. The Associated Press reported…
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June 28, 2017
The Knicks have fired team president Phil Jackson, and Knicks fans everywhere have been celebrating. The fans took to the Internet…
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June 28, 2017
Williams' lived experience intersected with her tennis career, further marginalized by her womanhood and Blackness, is what makes her superior…
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June 28, 2017
“America’s Got Talent” contestant Johnny Manuel achieved the impossible: he got Simon Cowell to grin over a Whitney Houston cover.
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June 28, 2017
Ezekiel Elliot's cover made quite the splash, as male Twitter was upset at seeing him posing naked, while holding a…
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June 28, 2017
La La Anthony and Kofi Siriboe were reportedly swapping phone numbers at the BET Awards.
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June 28, 2017
2016 was a record-breaking year for viewership for the BET Awards, but 2017's awards couldn't match up this time around.
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June 28, 2017
A video posted to Facebook appears to show an off-duty police officer choking a Black teen and threatening him for…
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June 28, 2017
DeMario Jackson is telling his side of what happened on Bachelor in Paradise during the infamous pool sex romp that…
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June 28, 2017
Bishop Eddie Long has been dead for six months, but that didn't stop the IRS from hitting him with a…
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June 28, 2017
On Tuesday, Alton Sterling's family filed a wrongful death suit against the city and police of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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June 27, 2017
The trailer for True to the Game, the film based on the bestselling book by Teri Woods of the same name,…
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June 27, 2017
Bill Conner of Madison, Wisconsin, biked 2,600 miles across the country to hear his dead daughter’s heartbeat in a donor…
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June 27, 2017
A Jacksonville, Florida, police officer ticketed a black man for walking without identification. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officer J.S. Bolen accused Devonte Shipman…
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June 27, 2017
A Florida man was arrested and sat in jail for 90 days after police mistook powdered drywall for cocaine. When Karlos…
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June 27, 2017
William Todd Coontz, the former Charlotte preacher who wrote the financial freedom book “Please Don’t Repo My Car,” was indicted for…
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June 27, 2017
Tiffany Haddish has just landed her first stand-up comedy special: “From the ‘Hood to Hollywood.” Haddish filmed the show at…
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June 27, 2017
Don Lemon brought in two people who would be badly affected by the Senate Republicans’ health care bill on his…