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Lena Waithe is the first black woman nominated for a comedy writing Emmy for her work in "Master of None," and this is huge

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Barack Obama had the best reaction when he saw Michelle's official portrait for the first time

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A petition is calling for Marvel to invest a portion of "Black Panther" profits in Black communities

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Someone put a pink pussy hat on a Harriet Tubman statue, and people are not happy

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ICYMI: Sen. Kamala Harris was not having it when the Homeland Security secretary tried to justify Trump's shithole comments

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H&M is doing major damage control by hiring a diversity leader amid their hoodie controversy

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Trump honors Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy at the White House a day after calling Black nations "shithole countries"

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Rachel Dolezal says she's making a hoodie to protest H&M, but people aren't here for it

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Roseanne Barr says she'd make a better president than Oprah

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Will Smith celebrated 20 years of marriage to Jada in the sweetest way, and we have all the feels

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Why is the White House stalling on eliminating the term "negro" from all federal forms?

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Terry Crews believes his family is being tracked and bugged after filing a sexual assault lawsuit

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Tiffany Haddish is too booked, busy, and blessed to worry about her Golden Globe snub

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Maxine Waters proves she's the queen of shade in this tweet about the Alabama Senate election

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Barack Obama is urging Alabama voters to vote against Roy Moore: "This one is serious, you can't sit it out"

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The FBI monitored Black Lives Matter proponents as "black supremacist extremists," according to newly released documents

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Former cop Michael Slager has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the deadly shooting of Walter Scott

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Trump's lawyer said the president can't be guilty of obstructing justice, but people aren't buying it

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Who is Cyntoia Brown? Social media rallies around the child sex slave sent to prison for killing her abuser

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Trump is ending protection status for Haitians displaced by the 2010 earthquake

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Lena Dunham's response to rape allegations against a "Girls" writer is a perfect example of white feminism

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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is under house arrest after an apparent military coup

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This journalist perfectly explained why white people shouldn't ever use the N-word

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Chance the Rapper isn't happy that Chicago is building a $95 million police academy instead of focusing on schools

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In peak Drake fashion, Drake has been collecting Birkin bags to eventually give his future wife

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