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Dressing Up The Backyard
Filed under: Beautiful Home With summer finally here, spend your quality time out in the sun as opposed to cramped up indoors. Our sister site DIY Life embraces the trend of creating an outdoor living...
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Don Lemon on Being Gay, Black & Twitter Feed Crush Fodder
Filed under: Interviews In the two-plus weeks since Don Lemon announced he is gay in tandem with the release of his new memoir, 'Transparent,' the CNN anchor has received both kudos and criticism.Share...
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Simple Ways to Revamp Your Scarf Into A Hair Accessory
Filed under: Hairstyles, How-To Liberate your head scarf from night duty! Instead of just sleeping in your scarf, try to play around with different ways to turn it into a cool hair accessory suitable...
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First Time's a Charm: Newcomer Manie Malone
From PAPERMAG.com: Actress Manie Malone is experiencing quite a few firsts right now.Share Tweet Born in Africa and raised in France, she studied Spanish at the Sorbonne, and only dabbled in modeling...
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Jersey City Teen Wins National Award for Art Portfolio
Filed under: News From NJ.Com/The Star-Ledger: JERSEY CITY - Muscular brushstrokes bring to life the painting of a young black man who is set against a textured white background. Shades of red, yellow,...
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Hank Aaron Awarded Honorary Degree from Princeton University
Filed under: News Baseball great Hank Aaron was awarded an honorary degree from Princeton University on Tuesday. The university applauded the former home run king for confronting racism during his...
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MC Lyte
Filed under: Black Music Month There may have been other popular MCs to hold it down earlier for the ladies, but MC Lyte (born Lana Michelle Moorer) made an undeniably huge splash when she dropped her...
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Run-DMC
Filed under: Black Music Month The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was proof that hip-hop could churn out a commercially viable hit. However, not until Run-DMC emerged in the mid-1980s, did hip-hop...
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Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
Filed under: Black Music Month Just as influential as Herc and Bambaataa, the Barbadian-born Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler) refined breakbeat deejaying by adding record scratching, cutting and...
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Kool Herc & Afrika Bambaataa
Filed under: Black Music Month You're obviously a pretty big deal if you're the guy largely credited for inventing a musical genre but have no records or music videos to show for it. But that's the...
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Old School Hip-Hop
Filed under: Black Music Month As we celebrate Black Music Month this June, we figured the best way to honor hip-hop music is to recognize the pioneers who made it all possible. In this series, we're...
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'N***a' Will Never Be Funny... Especially in 'The Hangover Part II'
Filed under: Movies From the Huffington Post: This is not a movie review, a history lesson or a call to action. It is simply a statement of truth. I could go to painstaking lengths, detailing how...
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Web Hackings Rattle Media Companies
Filed under: News From the New York Times: It might just be the most worrisome letter to the editor any news organization can receive. PBS fought on Monday and Tuesday to restore the Web sites for two...
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Dwyane Wade & LeBron James Lead Heat Past Mavericks In Game 1
Filed under: Basketball From the Washington Post: Dwyane Wade secured a rebound, dribbled around in a circle along the sideline, splitting between two Dallas Mavericks defenders. Once Jason Kidd closed...
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MLK's Daughter Steps Away From Troubled Bishop's Church
Filed under: News The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has made her first public comments since announcing her departure from Bishop Eddie Long's New Birth...
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Twitter Gets Even More Popular With Black Users. Why?
Filed under: News From Forbes: Twitter has long enjoyed a disproportionately strong following among African-Americans, and it's getting stronger still. A full 25 percent of black internet users are on...
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Lupe Fiasco Pays Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron With "The Television Will Not Be...
From Clutch Magazine Online: Considered by many to be the godfather of hip-hop, Gil Scott-Heron was indeed a visionary. Since his passing last Friday in New York City, fans and fellow musicians from...
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Marc Lamont Hill Interviews Angela Davis
From Our Voices with Black Enterprise: Never better, always clear - the indomitable Angela Davis. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Shaq is Out of the House, Off the Scene: Announces Retirement
Filed under: Basketball, News/ Sports From ESPN.com: After a mentally exhausting season in which he was unable to overcome the effects of a right Achilles injury as a member of the Boston Celtics,...
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Trend Alert: Double Finger Rings
Filed under: Fashion Files, Trends Next time you go shopping for accessories you may notice double rings are pretty much everywhere these days. The cool thing is that they come in a variety of styles...
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