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Travis Porter brought out Roscoe Dash and Waka Flocka to perform “No Hands” in Atlanta.
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Culture Writer & Critic. Bylines everywhere. English/Français. East African Francophone by way of Montreal & Harlem. UPTOWN NYC
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Not Timmy Tim making his return
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Timothee Chalamet is a true swag era millennial
These headlines are so malicious because Trainor is actually talking about getting diagnosed with vaginismus and working through her sexual hangups, something that affects a lot of women - and pubs are cherry picking quotes to humiliate her even further knowing ppl won't read
This was a joke for Black ppl and I love that they didn’t explain it
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She grew up picking cotton and doing domestic work and was abandoned and unloved by her parents, and that was all *before* the brutality of Ike and the community’s refusal to let her dissociate from that man in her public image. Running away to Europe saved her life & career.
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Sorry but Tina Turner not liking black people is not enough for me to write her off 
Traumazine dropped less than a year ago, it’s kind of crazy to be asking her about new music in the first place. Run the album back, it’s quite good.
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.@TheeStallion tells InStyle Magazine fans can “expect new music when I’m in a better place.”
Established facts after today:
1)Meg was shot
2) it was by either Kelsey or Tory, per forensic evidence
3)both Kelsey & Tory have said that it wasn't Kelsey at different junctures
Why are people pretending there's confusion. Just say he shot her and you still don't care.
A ton of failed Hollywood marriages are just work crushes that got carried away and forgot that compatibility off set is a totally different thing twitter.com/soursvampire/s
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The funniest part of her claims in this video is that her accent doesn’t sound like the Black/Latinx NYC accent in any borough, which is how you know she didn’t get it from growing up around ppl 😭😭😭 yet ppl keep defending her
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5 of the 9 justices involved were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote. Pivoting to blaming voters is so ridiculous.
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1. Roe v Wade is done
2. Voting Rights Act is done
3. Affirmative Action in higher education is done (and employment is probably next)
Elections have consequences.
No it’s not. It’s because of neoconservative strategist Edward Blum. He sued for gerrymandering in Texas, funded the case that gutted the voting rights act, and was responsible for changing the image of affirmative action “victims” from white ppl to Asian ppl.
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This is all bc some Chinese kids didn’t get into Harvard. This is why I do not ascribe to POC title. We are truly in this ALONE. twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/st…
Not the LITERAL plot from The Other Two omg
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT I got to play Pixar's first nonbinary character! Meet Lake!
I voice Lake in the new movie #Elemental! I'm seeing it in theaters tonight with my friends, so you can catch it in theaters too if you wanna see them. 
One of my favorite niches of TikTok are white diaspora wars.
Baby the way that Italians and Irish folks refuse to give their American descendants any peace in this lifetime or the next SENDS me 😭😭😭😭😭
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Like ppl think AAVE + bass + aggression = NYC accent and it’s just untrue 😭😭😭😭 there’s a specific inflection to words and how we emphasize them, particularly the vowel sounds. She does not do that, at all.
I’m sorry but how are you not going too include how they initially planned to punish a Black cast member with a LYNCHING death in your thread (content warning)
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The ‘LOST work environment was filled with racist commentary, including:
• When Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s picture was on the table, someone was told to remove their wallet “before he steals it.”
• The only Asian American writer called Korean, as in, “Korean, take the board”
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There were a few “you either know or you don’t” Black ppl references across the diaspora and they really worked
The way Kendall is sitting in Battery Park you’d think he’s destitute and didn’t just get several hundred million 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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she cracks me up with that tone shift, its very Wendy
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Like she is legit explaining how that's what she THOUGHT until she realized a mental block was automatically contracting her vagina... she's talking about sexual health, and even explained how it started with her irrational fears in her first pregnancy.
Please just...read?
The true winner is Willa. America might have lost but SHE got her bachelorette pad okay
Watching you all reconcile the Shiv you made up in your heads with the character she really is is in fact quite illuminating as to why discourse is constantly nonsensical on here.
A commitment to incoherence.
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Y'all this is really him at LaGuardia lmfao. Earlier in the vid he raps about being French and the rest of the vid includes him throwing on a pink wig and rapping Romans Revenge 💀 i thought everyone knew this!!!!!
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That doesn’t make her antiBlackness okay, but it does contextualize it in unresolved trauma. And there were things she apologized for. Particularly performing in SA during apartheid, which she publicly stated her regrets about in 1985 and declared she would honor the boycott.
Meg getting tangled with a Congolese athlete…the last time this happened to an American entertainer they ended up tweeting 5G conspiracies. Gonna pray for our sis
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Fannita needs to stop with these corporate talking points because they don't make sense and they mostly expose that Tarte was willing to let her do their dirty work. She contradicts herself in the video and omits things a lot of us saw in real time.
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Omg this Tarte stuff is getting crazy
and now that I go look at Bria recent video, she’s apologizing and admitting it was a mistake on her behalf
and now that I go look at Bria recent video, she’s apologizing and admitting it was a mistake on her behalf
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This stuff doesn’t keep me up at night but I just find it funny because I went to HS with kids just like her. It’s tired. It’s corny, and no one cares about the 5 Black ppl you hang around who give you a pass.
Y'all say you miss begging R&B, but Usher working the crowd a little bit has had us in a week-long press frenzy. Take a stand and let the man do his job in peace!!!!
Cornell West has been an unserious and unprincipled person for quite some time now. Every so often he dupes us into acting like he is mobilizing behind a purpose but it is all self-preserving ego.
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NYC linguistics are very particular so it’s just easy to know who’s putting on — there’s regional and ethnic specificity to them.
70 percent of Asian Americans support affirmative action, and only 16 percent actively oppose it. Even when broken down by National origin the least “eager” is somewhere around 60 percent.
“Generally content” is an overstatement of the circumstances here.
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two things can be true—non black poc are generally content to be used as pawns by conservatives to dismantle the small hard earned protections/progress we have because of their self perceived proximity to whiteness and non commitment to solidarity. twitter.com/_ShamGod/statu…
Been hollering over this screenshot all morning. All this over a tarte brand trip 😭
Someone should do a long read chronicling the shift in Essence Fest. It wasnt long ago that this was a gathering where Kem was a crowd favorite and the demo is *clearly* changing 😭
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Sabrina Brier and Druski exist in the same universe. Premier cultural anthropologists of our time
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The quote that circulates about Tina and Shug Avery in the Color Purple are extracted from Oprah’s biography. But the full context shows she was explicit about not wanting to be triggered by abuse when her own community wouldn’t free her. She’s reiterated as much over time.
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Anyway — Tina’s internalized antiBlackness came from a real place. She felt abandoned by Black ppl and embraced by Europeans and rarely reconciled the roots behind that. That doesn’t exonerate her from saying « Africans are lazy » & a million other things, but let’s be complete.
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Tina’s story means a lot to me, so I know a lot of her context backwards and forwards. Do you know how rare it is for a Black woman in entertainment to persevere what she went through and come out triumphant? What she survived is both a tragedy and a miracle.
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It’s this man. He started with Abigail Fisher in 2013, failed, and regrouped by exploiting real anxieties.
“Blum set his sights on recruiting Asian American applicants in particular after his cases with white students alleging discrimination did not yield his
desired results.”
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Ppl will read the bluest eye and reference the tragedy of Pecola Breedlove and not recognize when those themes interact with reality.
I desperately hope Tina finally found her peace. She has said repeatedly that the good didn’t outweigh the bad in this lifetime. Fin.
All the OGs are really showing off their breath control. Damn near 50 and over still able to rock the mic.
I desperately need a six month break from everything so I can get my life together. How do I make this happen??? I am so serious
A hall of famer
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what earringdealer tweet are you ? 
If you’ve ever told yourself «fuck it, maybe I just need to date women, » you need to be watching The Ultimatum: Queer Love. The ladies and theydies are a mess 😭
Kendrick was on Bad Blood lol
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Taylor Swift been in the music industry for like 15 years… and the first time she crosses into the hip hop market, she uses Ice Spice???
Clearly something is off with this choice.. twitter.com/WILLHASAPROBLE…
Usher earning his halftime show if he gets the baby daddies shook like this
I’m sorry but this is actually WILD by Majors’ attorney. Sending over prewritten character statements to journalists that she was never authorized to release????
And people are supposed to take her PR blitz with Insider as evidence of facts?????
This is the extension of editors expecting Black and POC writers to sound like their tweets in published work with minimal consideration or appreciation for craft or skill
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Busta 51 years old rocking a FULL SET with no backing track. The true greats man
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Like you stop filming and finish the follow up projects you have lined up and realize that you have completely different value sets 😭😭😭😭
I think there’s something hilariously sad about the straw breaking the camels back not being her litany of transgressions, which fans openly admit to blindly defending for 5+ years, but just Amala making plain how a lot of celebrities truly feel. They just don’t care lmao
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Why ppl won’t just acknowledge our system is a disaster and act like we could have unilaterally prevented this via voting when the issues with the government and court are deeper than that!
🎶A single mom who works two jobs, who loves her kids and never stops 🎶
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I ACTAULLY REECORDED HER BREAKING YESTERDAY
“LEAVE THE DOG ALONE”
“STOP!”
“STOP! (X2)”
“STOP AND GET GRACIE” (I think that’s what she said
Then something something
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Hillsong said “when we told y’all come as you are, we meant wear jeans, not be gay” 🫠
Nah I dug into it. Anita is right to be big mad. Babyface ran to IG and acted like Anita wouldn’t let him perform. 1) there were technical issues out of her control 2) he is, indeed the supporting act 3) the tech issue was a video screen. His own quotes - but she got dragged
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Not Anita @‘ing Babyface. What is going on?!!
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She built that accent from YouTube. Maybe she doesn’t know how to turn it off at this point but that is not a homegrown NYC accent, and she needs to stop playing in our faces 😭😭😭
I'm not mad at Meg logging in once every few days to remind us how fine she is, I'm truly not
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And btw — at the time she was pilloried for this, because she booked mad max right after. Quincy and Whoopi made it that she didn’t want to support a community that had effectively left her for dead.
Again, doesn’t make her language okay. But her context is clear.
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It’s the same way that conservatives astroturfed the StopAsianHate movement to sensationalize crime reporting and roll back bail reforms.
So you did what they said you did? Saw the striking, laughed and walked back when they attempted to engage you? twitter.com/diggy_simmons/
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How do y’all get conned on simple stuff??
You can Google mediocre yourself and see that every dictionary definition says it has a negative connotation.
“Bigotry of low expectations” is a CONSERVATIVE talking pt invented by GWBs speechwriter to minimize structural racism.
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This was one hell of a conversation. Great job to everyone involved. #TheBreakfastClub
Joanna Garcia Swisher had ZERO capacity to properly clock and address the Mildred/Tiff situation during The Ultimatum reunion and everything wrong happened. Whew that was not okay.
Ted Lasso's decline is what happens when your star is too busy using a show for reputation management that they forget that they actually need to make good television
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It's such a specific "nyc white theater boy who was cool with Black girls in the mid 2010s" performance it makes me scream everytime i listen to it
This is a very confusing statement considering what us going on in America rn
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the tour is for the kids… why would my auntie bring her tour anywhere near countries with laws killing us… twitter.com/saethedj/statu…
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Imo, Moriah is not broken-hearted — at least not in the way y’all think.
She’s trying to tweet her way into a lump sum payout that will silence her, hence escalating the public details every day.
Unfortunately, she grossly miscalculated how much ppl care about a woman ranting.
King Combs be laying on that "NY influence" heavy for someone who grew up Cali
Are these girls rich??? Why are they throwing expensive bras at this man!!!
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Anyway, you get the point. Do your Googles on THAT man. He’s not even a lawyer and he has been playing the long game on the conservative movement for decades
A what now????? Lmao alright
This is one of many f*scist propoganda accounts on here. The point of tweets like these is to rile up their base.
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American black culture is insane.
This guy went to Italy, the place with the best food in the WORLD, and found it inedible because it isn’t drenched in fucking Lawry’s twitter.com/rassie_dot_dev…
She supported him amid his assault charges…
“Meagan and Jonathan have maintained a friendship for some time,” the source says, adding that following the allegations made against Majors, "Meagan has shown considerable support towards him."
Why are ppl so upset for Kate when they're still close, she read the book and is appearing with Elliot at a book event...please READ
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Meg was crying on stage while performing those songs. Yeah she deserves her break.
When I went to the ER twice last year and was taken by ambulance, my neighbors checked on me because they knew I lived alone. Building a community with your neighbors matters.
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I’m a firm believer in NOT getting to know your neighbors. What, are we supposed to have some kind of a connection because we live closer to each other? Nah I don’t eff with people like that homie. GTFO with your nasty ass apple pie, Gertrude.
Mary is ALWAYS giving us a matching boot and I love her dearly for it 😭
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Whose child was watching Meg perform at 1 AM EST
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I didn't really want to get in the mix when ppl were arguing about cookouts in apts and parks or whatever for MDW but ppl aren't adding in the violence of gentrification. The cookouts on the street we used to have aren't the same. Cops come QUICK. Noise ordinances for NOTHING.
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Biden is responsible for helping usher Clarence Thomas into his Supreme Court Seat as he read that abomination of a concurring opinion today that he’s been waiting for DECADES. It is not exclusively Bush or Trump appointees or the appointees Obama didn’t make. It is all of it!
Enough!
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.@Coi_Leray announces new track “Make My Day” sampling “Pump Up The Jam” by Technotronic releasing June 23rd.
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Prior to the series finale, I mused a bit on how Succession uses hip-hop as a storytelling device for
Tina deserves her rest and transition but I’m really grieving like I knew her personally. What a triumph of a life.
When Cardi met Offset he was the bigger star. Now he's a happy guest star in a music video. Wild.
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I get why this is a common talking point but it’s misguided. Not all protests are the same, and rioting from France’s minority groups protesting state violence and extrajudicial execution don’t get the same reception as the “celebrated” strikes over retirement age.
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people in the quotes and comments like “why don’t america do this?” but when people rioted for George Floyd yall called them all types of thieves, thugs, hooligans, and somebody MawMaw on an electric wheelchair tried to stab people twitter.com/davenewworld_2…
twitter.com/davenewworld_2…Janelle shows a titty for 8 seconds of a 45 minute show and ppl have not stopped losing their minds. Please get a grip.
It’s the right thing to do. Everything Michael publicly stood for indicates that he would not have wanted the legal system to move forward in this manner and would not have viewed this as justice.
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David Simon, creator of The Wire, asks for mercy and leniency for the man who charged with selling Michael K. Williams the drugs that killed him. nytimes.com/2023/07/07/nyr
Neglect is a shortsighted and unempathetic way to discuss immigration trauma
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Don’t fight me, but I think it’s a form of neglect. You don’t get to interact with your other family members because you simply cannot communicate. Even if you try to you’ll get ridiculed for trying. You got isolated and abandoned. twitter.com/aliyahInterlud…
The context for this jab is defending Donald Glover’s unexceptional attempt at social criticism via “This is America,” which I thought we had all come to realize was absurdly sophomoric, despite the pains fanboys and critics made to praise all the visual symbolism at the time
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WATCH: Ebro Darden calls out Drake for never saying anything about Black issues
"Drake has never shown up to have anything to say about anything going on in society with Black folks"
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The faculty in the back desperately trying not to crack up , chefs kiss
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Zaslav loudly booed at BU commencement. Although I’m incapable of being happy, this comes close.
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White ppl don’t even bring their whole authentic selves to work. It’s half the reason behind the AITA subreddit
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I was in a presentation that asked if Black people could ever bring their true, whole authentic self to work. Do you feel you can bring your whole authentic self to work? Is your office diverse? Be honest, is your authentic self objectively “digestible” to non-Black ppl?
She didn't accuse him of assault. His lawyers explicitly admitted that early. In fact she has been uncooperative and unreachable...yet now publications are running her name. This is so nasty.
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BREAKING: Actor Jonathan Majors files domestic violence lawsuit against his ex girlfriend who is accusing him of assault.
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When he slaps on a pink wig and starts rapping Romans revenge i start spinning
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As a bird of fighting experience, I am exiting stage left of any relationship where a man thinks we are squaring up on his opps TOGETHER.
This ain’t Mr and Mrs Smith!!!!