We’ve all watched the humiliating videos of parents “teaching their kids” a lesson by giving them “old man” haircuts. And while they’ve garnered tons of attention online, the haircuts are a pretty embarrassing and extreme way to discipline children. Now, a Florida father is gaining attention for taking shaming videos to another level. His discipline trick? Don’t […]

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Monday marked a historic day for the transgender community when Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, made her debut on the cover of Vanity Fair’s June issue. And as soon as photographs of Caitlyn, dressed in draping designer gowns and jewels, hit the internet, Twitter users started sounding off. While reactions to Jenner’s identity […]

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 We never thought we’d see the day where legends would have Twitter beef. But we guess it’s a brand new day. Iconic vocalists, Anita Baker and Cheryl Lynn (“Got To Be Real” and “Encore”) have beef that they spread out all over the internet. It all started when Cheryl posted a screenshot showing that she was blocked from […]

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Want to learn how to “break the internet?” Just ask President Obama. Earlier this week, he broke the Guinness World Record for the “fastest time to reach 1 million followers on Twitter.” His account, @POTUS, had 1 million followers within the first 5 hours after the page was created. After President Obama’s time is up […]

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Six years after his historic election, President Barack Obama finally scored his own Twitter account Monday and he’s posted two tweets @POTUS. Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account. — President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015 In Camden today, seeing first-hand how smart policing is making the […]

Janet Jackson still stands as one of the most formidable music acts from the 1990s and early 2000s, but little has been heard from the singer and entertainer since 2010’s “Nothing” single. However, fans of Jackson were given a treat on the eve of her 49th birthday via a tweet, where she announced a return […]

An incoming Boston University professor has apologized for her controversial remarks regarding White males on Twitter, Fox News reports. Saida Grundy, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Boston University who identifies as a “feminist sociologist of race & ethnicity,” was hit with criticism after calling White college males a “problem population” on her social […]

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In an effort to tamp down anger and explore the undercurrent of the rage driving protesters, an executive with the Baltimore Orioles took to Twitter over the weekend to defend demonstrators, reports the Huffington Post. John P. Angelos, Orioles’ chief operating officer and son of team owner Peter Angelos, defended protesters Saturday in response to […]

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Hip Hop mogul JAY Z is notoriously quiet on Twitter, so when he took it to the tweets this afternoon to defend Tidal, a music-streaming service that he launched last month with a bevy of music’s A-Listers, including Madonna, Jack White, Beyonce, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Coldplay and Kanye West, his “stream of consciousness” quickly went viral. […]

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There’s been a lot going on in blackness this year, particularly in the constantly evolving universe known as Black Twitter. We’ve still got a Black president in the States, and they’ve got a new one in Nigeria. On the other side of Africa, things have gotten beyond dangerous, as terrorists attack a college in Kenya. […]

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We’re rooting for NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders to get his own show. Topic? How to be an epic, cool, and equally embarrassing dad. Those aren’t usually adjectives that go together, but that’s the only way we can describe this Twitter conversation between Sanders and his son, Deion Sanders Jr., about doughnuts. “Hood doughnuts,” whatever those […]

On Monday, a handful of questionable tweets from comedian Trevor Noah were unearthed just hours after he was named the new Daily Show host. Noah, who hails from South Africa, was bestowed the title by Comedy Central after appearing on the show a handful of times. But even a strong co-sign from Jon Stewart didn’t stop a handful of people, including BuzzFeed’s business […]