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January 18, 2016
Kids can eat anything they want to eat. That's what young folks can expect if Chris Christie is elected president...
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January 18, 2016
CINCINNATI (AP) — The family of a man shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer who pulled…
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January 18, 2016
Because apparently Meek Mill doesn't have enough problems with Drake, he can now add 50 Cent to his beef list...
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January 18, 2016
Apollo Nida speaks out from prison praising Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker for picking up his calls and giving him…
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January 18, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — Scholastic is pulling a new picture book about George Washington and his slaves amid objections it…
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January 18, 2016
K. Michelle has some harsh words for football players that were dissing dark-skinned women..
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January 18, 2016
Director Spike Lee announced on Monday that he would not be attending the 2016 Oscars amid the #OscarsSoWhite controversy...
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January 18, 2016
With the #OscarsSoWhite again, Hollywood is trying to figure out how to solve the lack of diversity in award nominations,…
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January 18, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the hit Broadway show “Hamilton,” got a group of his fellow Hunter College Elementary School alumni together…
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January 18, 2016
Shera Grant and Shanta Owens, identical twin sisters, have led incredibly similar lives over the years. According to AL.com, both…
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January 18, 2016
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In their final debate before the Iowa caucuses, the gloves came off between Hillary Clinton and…
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January 18, 2016
Martin Luther King, Jr. marched for equal rights, fair housing and decent wages for all. He also won a Grammy…
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January 18, 2016
On Tuesday, Wale made history as the first rapper to open a State of the Union address.
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January 18, 2016
For white Christians, the police killings of black Americans as well as the prevalent issues of police brutality are just…
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January 17, 2016
MTV's list of hot slang for this year is strangely familiar, almost like they dipped into the annals of Black…
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January 17, 2016
A state of emergency has been declared in Flint, Michigan, where residents have been drinking poisoned water that may have…
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January 17, 2016
A Texas woman tracked down her husband's dead body, which had been dumped on the side of the road, by…
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January 17, 2016
In a sad indictment of the times we live in, a viral video is now going around showing a man…
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January 17, 2016
In a special two-episode event of "The Steve Harvey Show," Steve Harvey is sitting down with both Miss Universe Pia…
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January 17, 2016
Congressman Mo Brooks, a Republican from Alabama, called President Barack Obama "the most racially-divisive president" since the Civil War on…