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Dec 18

50 And Floyd: When Two Petty Personalities Split

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50 and Floyd during happier times By Brenda Alexander Former BFF’s Floyd Mayweather and 50 Cent’s beef doesn’t seem to be dying down any time soon. They’ve been exposing each other’s skeletons on Instagram for weeks. So far, they’ve thrown shots at Floyd’s illiteracy, 50 as an absentee father, Floyd as a woman beater, 50’s a rat, neither of them…

Dec 18

From Hip Hop Artist to Activist: The Changing Face of Meek Mill

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Meek Mill today & from a 2007 mug shot By Brenda Alexander When the #FreeMeekMill campaign began, I was unbothered and uninterested. Considering the protests took place near my job, I was irritated at the inconvenience it would cause with traveling to and from work. Furthermore, I was perplexed as to why the entire city of Philly was in an…

Dec 18

No Black Men, I’m Not Boycotting Issa Rae

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Issa Rae By Brenda Alexander When my brother told me that Issa Rae was a trending topic on Twitter recently, I was too pumped thinking the trailer for Season 3 of Insecure was released. Instead, I wasted precious seconds of my life searching the hashtag only to discover pure foolery. Continue #sorrynotsorry An excerpt from Issa Rae’s 2015 book, The…

Jul 25

Double Standards: Can We Stop Nailing Black Women to the Cross While Letting Black Men Run Free?

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Fabolous & Emily B. By Brenda Alexander I’ve already expressed why I don’t stand with Mo’Nique in a previous piece. I even questioned why Tisha Campbell-Martin would ever re-consider a reboot of Martin after she alleged to be sexually harassed for years on the show by her co-star. Those sentiments remain true for me. However, the same way I can…

Jul 25

Chadwick Boseman Covers Rolling Stone & Reveals the Donor Who Paid for Him To Study Theater at Oxford

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Norman Jean Roy for Rolling Stone By Josh EellsTwo years ago, Chadwick Boseman was in a movie called Gods of Egypt. It was not a very good movie. But in addition to its not-goodness, it also became infamous for whitewashing – casting, as ancient African deities, a white guy from Scotland, a white guy from Denmark and at least seven…