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A new Miss Delaware was crowned on Thursday in Dover after the existing Miss Delaware, Amanda Longacre, got her crown snatched for being too old. The Miss America website specifies that contestants must be between the ages of 17 and 24. Twenty-four-year-old Longacre won her title on June 14, but was disqualified because she will be […]

Last week, a man in Pittsburgh was bit by a scorpion while shopping for bananas at Walmart. Yes, you read that right. The unsuspecting guy reached into the box to grab some bananas and an actual scorpion bit him. So let’s add that to the list of odd things that go on in Walmart. The man […]

On Wednesday, a 12-year-old Detroit boy who had been missing since June 14 was found alive in his father’s basement. Detroit Police Chief James Craig said police weren’t ruling out the possibility of a homicide in the disappearance of Charlie Bothuell V. But on Tuesday, Craig announced that police had found Charlie alive in the […]

The calm demeanor. The old lady rocking sunglasses. This old guy’s belted pants. For the record, the couple who rolled their little blue Honda over are A-OK, but isn’t this the best car wreck picture ever? On Wednesday, the elderly couple flipped their Honda while cruising along the Los Angeles streets. It’s unclear how the driver, who’s been married […]

Earlier this month, Facebook changed its policy on nudity and obscenity to ensure that photos of breastfeeding won’t be flagged and removed from the site – even if a nipple is pictured. Activists have been pushing Facebook to address what they say is a double standard in the way they regulate explicit content. Although Facebook’s Community Guidelines […]

Like every other woman on the planet, we black girls obsess over our hair, nails, makeup, and other beauty woes that just come with being a girl. But then there are times when specific needs have to be met…and meeting them is a frustration all our own. From hunting down the perfect foundation, to explaining the […]

Remember Victoria Wilcher, the 3-year-old girl who, left marred by her family’s three pit bulls, was asked to leave a KFC in Jackson, Mississippi in May? Victoria and her family were allegedly asked to leave the restaurant because her facial scars were too disturbing. But after the internet caught wind of the story of a disfigured little girl bullied […]

Dallas County, Texas unanimously voted in favor of “monetary and substantial reparations” for African-Americans’ suffering, after the County Commission approved a resolution proposed by John Wiley Price, their only Black commissioner. But it seems they had no clue what they were actually doing. Price’s Juneteenth Resolution also included a long list of injustices endured by […]

KTVU Journalist Heather Holmes became part of the robbery story she was reporting on when she was mugged on air in Oakland, Calif. Monday night. Holmes was doing a live report on a woman who had been robbed and beaten when the theft occurred. Holmes’ purse was inside an unlocked news van just a few feet away […]

Shelly Sterling, the estranged wife of Donald Sterling, will ask a probate court judge to issue an order to protect witnesses from possible intimidation from her husband. Shelly and her attorneys will also present evidence that Sterling and his lawyers have intimidated, threatened, and harassed witnesses who will be called in the court hearing July […]

A month ago, Doris Lewis of Atlanta entered the hospital after experiencing shortness of breath. Today she is stable condition after a 27-pound tumor was removed from her abdomen in an 8.5 hour surgery performed at Emory Hospital. At first, Lewis did not know she had a growing tumor — she thought she was just gaining weight. […]

Police officers of the Parisian suburb Kremlin-Bicetre are under investigation after blackening their faces with shoe polish and eating bananas – all in the name of a turn-up. The images of them smiling while wearing black face and afro wigs at a recent party surfaced on social media this week and quickly spread. As if their black […]