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Bill Maher became one of the hottest trending topics on social media this past weekend after he casually dropped a racial slur during a live taping.
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Another day, another viral video challenge sets the ‘net on fire! Many are still planning their entry into the ‘Mannequin Challenge,’ but there’s a new online contest popping up every day.
[Flashback: Destiny’s Child Slays the #MannequinChallenge… (VIDEO)]
2016 has had it’s share of viral challenges but this latest one is bringing to year to a close with quite a few side eyes! In the ‘SwitchItUpChallenge’ couples are tasked with swapping outfits and posting side-by-side pictures of the results.
Apparently the latest trend has quite a few seemingly ‘straight’ men rocking their women’s clothing as they ‘switch it up’ with their female partners and now quite a few are protesting what they feel is the latest online ‘gay agenda’.
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Singer Faith Evans became a trending topic over the weekend and it didn’t even have anything to do with her new boo, Stevie J.
[READ: Boo’d Up: Faith Evans & Stevie J. Confirm Relationship Status… ]
The songstress hit the stage during the Boston stop of the Bad Boy Family Reunion tour to sing a slew of her old school hits, including ‘You Used to Love Me’ and she apparently gave the audience a peep show as she accidentally flashed her cat to the crowd!
Know your ‘ROOTS’… that’s the overall theme of the original 1977 miniseries, as well as the 2016 remake of the classic slave story.
British actor Malachi Kirby made his debut as Kunte Kinte reloaded with the help of Lavar Burton, who appeared in the first production. There are also several high profiles names associated with the 2016 version including Will Packer, Clifford ‘T.I.’ Harris, Forrest Whittaker, Laurence Fishburn & more.
[FLASHBACK: Tip “T.I.” Harris, Will Packer, Phaedra Parks & More Attend #ROOTS Advance Screening… (PHOTOS + VIDEO)]
The original “Roots” miniseries drew more than 130 million viewers (over half the U.S. population) when it aired back in 1977 and won nine Emmy awards. Last night’s premiere episode was just the first of what’s to come.
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While social media trends change by the minute, it’s always fun to take part in in the trending topic game.
That being said, today’s top tweets have been focused on Atlanta and what lessons have been learned from exposure to our great city and there are quite a few thoughtful and hilarious responses.
Atlanta has earned quite a reputation as being a city filled with fakers and fronters (thanks to the reality show boom) but there’s way more to our great city than partying and bullsh*t (I think).
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The hashtag #RapedByMorehouse and #RapedAtSpelman began trending yesterday on social media after several students from Spelman College banded together to launch a silent protest on campus.
After a self-identified Spelman student anonymously took to Twitter with a detailed account of her encounter with a Morehouse student, several of her fellow students donned caution tape on their mouths to symbolize how rape victims at the college are often silenced.
They also carried signs bearing the words from her tweets in an effort to force Morehouse to acknowledge the alleged rape culture and make changes.
Many Morehouse men found the hashtag extremely disrespectful to the college as a whole and are calling for social media users to name the people accountable instead of the college as a whole.
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