By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer Standup comic Hannibal Buress, whose 2014 remark about sexual-assault accusations against Bill Cosby went viral, is getting another serious surge of attention. The path to Cosby’s conviction April 26 on charges he drugged and molested a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home arguably started 3 ½ years earlier in a […]
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MSNBC Host Joy Reid Entangled in Hacker, Homophobic Slurs Scandal
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. editor, mgreen@afro.com Time traveling hacks may have made perfect sense for retroactive mayhem in the movie “Back to the Future,” yet few people believed MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid’s statement that an “external party accessed and manipulated material” from her now obsolete blog, The Reid Report. The homophobic posts were uncovered by Wayback […]
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The Fortnite Phenomenon
By David R. Lee Jr., Special to the AFRO Every year, there appears to be a gaming phenomenon that sweeps the globe. Last year, Pokémon Go dominated the markets. This year, Fortnite is the game that has taken a hold of the public’s attention. Fortnite is a battle royale game with hints of Minecraft; no other […]
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Meek Mill: People Going Through Same Ordeal Depending on Him
By The Associated Press Rapper Meek Mill said Wednesday that now that he’s out of prison, a lot of people facing similar battles with the criminal justice system are depending on him. “I got a lot of responsibility,” he said in an interview with Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News. He said the men counting […]
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RAMBLING ROSE
By Rosa Pryor, Special to the AFRO Hello everyone, hoping you all are in great spirits, enjoying life, keeping a positive mind and treating others as you wish to be treated. Rolling out a taste of history and culture at the Avenue Bakery located at 2229 Pennsylvania Ave., with Baltimore African-American sports icons mural unveiling, […]
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Sides Agree to Drop Rape Lawsuit Against Russell Simmons
By The Associated Press A lawsuit from a Los Angeles woman who alleged music mogul Russell Simmons raped her is being dropped. A federal court filing Wednesday says the two sides have agreed that the suit, filed in January, should be dismissed. It says both will bear their own attorneys’ fees, but gives no other […]
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Tekashi 6ix9ine Makes Money Rapping the N-Word. He’s Not Black.
By Lisa Snowden, Special to the AFRO A few weeks ago my son, who recently turned 10, sat down next to me on the bed where I’d been working. “Mommy, I want to be a Soundcloud rapper,” he said. My husband and I closely monitor his internet usage (or at least we thought we did), but […]
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Founding Member of Celebrated Go-Go Band Rare Essence Remembered
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com About 2 a.m. on April 20, Rory Felton, better known as “DC”, founding member of the famed go-go band Rare Essence, was found dead of stab wounds in an apartment in Southwest, Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reported Felton, 57, was discovered in the Bellevue neighborhood with at […]
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Turning the Memphis Sanitation Strike into Art
By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO Angela Wilson, playwright and founder and president of the AngelWing Project, wrote and directed a play about the 1968 Memphis sanitation worker’s strike that will debut this weekend in Anne Arundel County. “Tears of the Soul” tells the story of a Black family in 1968’s Memphis, during the […]
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Jury to Deliberate after Cosby Painted as Predator, Victim
By The Associated Press Jurors at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial are poised to start deliberating after a marathon day of closing arguments that portrayed the comedian both as a calculating predator who’s finally being brought to justice and the victim of a multimillion-dollar frame-up by a “pathological liar.” The seven men and five women […]
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Is Kanye OK?
By Micha Green, Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Since last week, Kanye West has been a trending topic on Twitter. It all started on April 17 when he began a few-days-long Twitter rant which peaked on April 19 with an announcement that he would be releasing a solo album in addition to another with rapper, Kid Cudi. “My […]
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In Closing, Defense Calls Cosby Accuser ‘Pathological Liar’
By The Associated Press Bill Cosby’s lawyers urged a jury Tuesday to acquit the 80-year-old comedian of sexual assault charges they said were based on “flimsy, silly, ridiculous evidence,” arguing he was falsely accused by a “pathological liar” scheming for a big payday. The first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era was nearly in […]