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Clear Your Calendar: Kenya Barris Spills Some Scalding Tea on His Split With ABC
Clear Your Calendar: Kenya Barris Spills Some Scalding Tea on His Split With ABC

Kenya Barris made Hollywood headlines this summer when he decided to part ways with ABC …Speculation swirled as to whether or not a shelved episode of his hit show black-ish had anything to do with his departure.

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Greg FordeSeptember 14, 2018Comment
18, Activist, Harvard-Bound: How Yara Shahidi Became the Face and Brain of Young Hollywood
18, Activist, Harvard-Bound: How Yara Shahidi Became the Face and Brain of Young Hollywood

The star found fame on 'Black-ish' and its spinoff, and she's finding her voice as the unofficial spokesperson for the Gen Z and woke.

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Greg FordeSeptember 5, 2018Comment
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and 'Greatest Singer of All Time,' Dies at 76
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and 'Greatest Singer of All Time,' Dies at 76
Greg FordeAugust 30, 2018Comment
Black Americans Aren't Buying Omarosa's Turn Against Trump
Black Americans Aren't Buying Omarosa's Turn Against Trump
Greg FordeAugust 30, 2018Comment
Facebook Wanted Us to Kill This Investigative Tool
Facebook Wanted Us to Kill This Investigative Tool

Last year, we launched an investigation into how Facebook’s People You May Know tool makes its creepily accurate recommendations. By November, we had it mostly figured out …

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Greg FordeAugust 8, 2018Comment
Tom Cruise’s Most Insane ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Stunts, Broken Down by Director Christopher McQuarrie
Tom Cruise’s Most Insane ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Stunts, Broken Down by Director Christopher McQuarrie
Greg FordeAugust 2, 2018Comment
Will Smith Just Won the #InMyFeelingsChallenge
Will Smith Just Won the #InMyFeelingsChallenge

The rapper, actor, superstar dad and overall renaissance man is not one to let a viral meme or the opportunity to entertain his fans with videos of himself being a regular degular-ass black dude pass him by, and this is no exception.

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Greg FordeJuly 16, 2018Comment
Meet the Activist Who Called Piers Morgan an “Idiot” for Criticizing Anti-Trump Protests in Britain
Meet the Activist Who Called Piers Morgan an “Idiot” for Criticizing Anti-Trump Protests in Britain

Ash Sarkar, the anti-Trump coalition organizer who confronted Piers Morgan during a “Good Morning Britain” interview Thursday that went viral, speaks to Democracy Now.

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Greg FordeJuly 16, 2018Comment
Black Thought Sets Out On His Own
Black Thought Sets Out On His Own

Black Thought reflects on his 30-year career with his debut solo project

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Greg FordeJune 4, 2018Comment
Oh? Michelle Wolf's Jokes Offend You?
Oh? Michelle Wolf's Jokes Offend You?
Greg FordeJune 1, 2018Comment
Between The World And Black Thought
Between The World And Black Thought

Basking in long-overdue accolades, the voice of The Roots is ready to share his story

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Greg FordeMay 31, 2018Comment
Ambien Manufacturer Responds to Roseanne Barr for Blaming Her Racism on Its Drug
Ambien Manufacturer Responds to Roseanne Barr for Blaming Her Racism on Its Drug

Basically, Sanofi is like, “Keep Ambien out of your racism.”

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Greg FordeMay 30, 2018Comment
Wanda Sykes Says She’s Left ‘Roseanne.’ Others React To Barr’s Racist Remarks
Wanda Sykes Says She’s Left ‘Roseanne.’ Others React To Barr’s Racist Remarks

Sykes was a consulting producer on the “Roseanne” reboot.

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Greg FordeMay 30, 2018Comment
Every Sacred, Sacrilegious, and Fully Heathen Look at the Met Gala 2018
Every Sacred, Sacrilegious, and Fully Heathen Look at the Met Gala 2018
Greg FordeMay 9, 2018Comment
Celebrities Hate the Met Gala, Each Other
Celebrities Hate the Met Gala, Each Other
Greg FordeMay 9, 2018Comment
How Bill Cosby Divided Black America
How Bill Cosby Divided Black America
Greg FordeMay 9, 2018Comment
This Is Painful: Floyd Mayweather Struggles To Read A Brief Radio Drop
This Is Painful: Floyd Mayweather Struggles To Read A Brief Radio Drop
Greg FordeMay 9, 2018Comment
Black Life, White Wife and the Art Caught in the Middle
Black Life, White Wife and the Art Caught in the Middle
Greg FordeMay 9, 2018Comment
How the West Was Lost
How the West Was Lost

Kanye didn’t sneak up on us any more than Trump did. He hasn’t changed. He was hiding in plain sight all along.

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Greg FordeApril 30, 2018Comment
5 Takeaways On Michelle Wolf's Hugely Controversial Speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
5 Takeaways On Michelle Wolf's Hugely Controversial Speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

On a related note, her Netflix series, "The Break With Michelle Wolf" -- comes on May 27. She couldn't buy better publicity for that show than she got with her speech on Saturday night.

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Greg FordeApril 30, 2018Comment
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