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Buried underneath reports of midterm election tensions and the White House’s racist ads, news broke late last week that an unknown number of Facebook users had their private messages hacked and put up for sale. Anonymous hackers claimed they had successfully stolen the private messages of some 120 million Facebook …

SplashNews.com Janet Jackson Devotes Global Icon Acceptance Speech To Women’s Rights Janet Jackson won a Global Icon Award at the EMA’s in Bilbao on Sunday. She used her acceptance speech to address gender inequality and other women’s rights issues. Watch her moving delivery below: What did you think? Hit the …

Elections on this level have a different feel than multimillion-dollar national races. Candidates are less polished. Many of the issues are more immediate. With margins of victory sometimes as close as a couple hundred votes, it’s easier to imagine that every ballot could determine the outcome of races. But for …

It looks like Netflix will do nearly anything to make you watch their movies, including advertising Black actors who have a minor role in the film. Is it marketing or racist tactics? The Guardian explains  that the streaming serviced rolled out a new algorithm “to begin serving up personalised images to …

Wayne Sutton: How do you feel about being a role model for a lot of people who are underrepresented? You are a successful venture capitalist, and a black woman, black lesbian woman. How do you feel about that? Arlan Hamilton: Well, it’s amazing. It is a wonderful feeling. I am …

President Donald Trump — perhaps feeling some heat in the lead-up to the midterm elections, in which his party is expecting heavy losses — told a pretty desperate lie Sunday. New Fox Poll shows a “40% Approval Rating by African Americans for President Trump, a record for Republicans.” Thank you, …

Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Juvenile became the first artist signed to Cash Money Records in 1997 with his second studio album Solja Rags, but it was the following year that cemented him as a certified star. On this date 20 years ago, Juve’s third studio LP, 400 Degreez, hit …

Her adult life, what is known of it, was as peripatetic as her childhood. She had three husbands and four children before the age of 30, and roamed between New Mexico, New York, and Mexico, picking up for months at a time to live on the beach in Jalisco in …

Rapper Remy Ma knows firsthand what it is to have the right to vote, lose it due to incarceration, and regain the privilege after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo restored voting rights to felons on parole. In August 2014, Remy Ma was released from prison after serving six years. Now …

Aubrey Lane, 32, is suing American Airlines for what she describes as a travel horror story. Lane says that in June of 2017 she boarded a flight from Phoenix to New York and was seat next to a man who the airline continued to serve drinks, even after he was …