NewsOne Featured Video A Black woman on TikTok has gone viral for a controversial video. Over the Memorial Day Weekend, a user named @BlkGirlTragic took to the platform to share her thoughts about the polarizing Citi Bike debacle involving a white Bellevue worker named Sarah Comrie and a young Black rider. The user claimed that […]
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Roman Breaks Down in Tears During Eulogy – Succession S4E9It’s a harrowing and frankly humanizing scene for someone who, just an episode earlier, sold the United States to a fascist for control over a company. It also feels distinctly alien to anyone who’s ever been to a funeral in the Black community, where displays of […]
Read MoreScreenshot of TikTok. Credit: Amazon Ring Here’s what Amazon drivers should do if they encounter a bear while trying to deliver a package: deliver the package anyway. At least, that’s according to a video posted by Amazon’s Ring, the company’s home surveillance system service. The video, posted to Ring’s TikTok page on Thursday, shares surveillance […]
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Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. TikTok is the origin of many online trends, but gaming companies are still figuring out to how maximize results on the platform. In the fragmented content landscape, TikTok’s niche is driving discoverability. This presents a unique opportunity to […]
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At 57-years-young, actress Viola Davis is aging like fine wine. But to play the role of a fierce female warrior in The Woman King, she had to get into fighting shape. To get ready for her role, the actress trained five hours a day for three months before production started. Her workouts included an hour […]
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The “About Damn Time” singer went on to explain how the expectations of her live performances is what leads her to stay in shape, both mentally and physically. Advertisement “I have a very high performance job. For 90 minutes a night, I have to do choreography, I have to sing, dance, I have to rap […]
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Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Brian “FaZe Rug” Awadis has launched 1UP Candy to craft experience-driven confections for his Gen Z audience. Rug is a co-owner of FaZe Clan and its largest YouTube creator with over 23 million subscribers. Social media and shareability […]
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Mikal Bridges had to move to Brooklyn a little earlier this year. Bridges was part of the monster package of picks and players that the Nets received upon sending Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns, which they did just before the trade deadline. While Brooklyn struggled a bit after the deadline, Bridges was a revelation, […]
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Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More The federal government is considering pushing an outright ban on the video-sharing app TikTok across the U.S., just weeks after banning the app from all U.S. government devices. Citing data privacy concerns […]
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It almost sounds like a joke: A family walks into a restaurant, but then the story gets dark. A family walks into a restaurant wearing head to toe Confederate-flag garb. If you’re Black nothing is funny about the Confederate flag, which to us symbolizes racism and violence. Georgia Nurses Thought It Was Smart To Mock […]
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It almost sounds like the start of a corny joke: A family walks into a restaurant …fill in the blank, but the fill in the blank gets dark in this story. Here it goes: A family walks into a restaurant wearing head to toe in Confederate-flag garb. If you’re Black, the Confederate flag is no […]
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It seems that even Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), the parent company that owns Coachella, is doing all it can to forget and destroy all evidence of Frank Ocean’s disappointing show in the desert from a few weeks ago. Superhoe and Mood’s Nicôle Lecky Plays That’s So Random Off English For those that are unaware, attendees […]
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TikTok ban poll uncovers age, party divisions | The Hill Skip to content FILE – The TikTok logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen which displays the TikTok home screen, on March 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) Nearly half of Americans support a potential ban on TikTok, but […]
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If you don’t know who Eric Mays is, you are about to find out. Mays is a Flint City Councilman who has gone viral on the internet for the past couple of weeks for his filterless responses, witty rebuttals and angry outbursts during council meetings. He’s the embodiment of “You got me messed up.” Though […]
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Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. TikTok is one of the world’s most influential social platforms, but the gaming industry is only beginning to grapple with its influence. As Harish Sarma — global head of sports and gaming content — says, the platform pioneered […]
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Last week, we told you about Hulu’s plan to release its forthcoming documentary centered around the highly popular (and widely criticized, but more on that later) 80s-90s festival, Freaknik. Still Black, Still Proud: Unpacking the Untold Story of Harlem’s ‘Summer of Soul’ Off English While an official trailer for Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told […]
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When Durand Bernarr appears onstage at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles for the second-to-last stop on his Wanderlust tour, the energy in the room is palpable. Black Musicians Are Not A Monolith: Bartees Strange Discusses Anti-Blackness In The Industry Off English Whether it’s due to his entertaining and interactive opening performance of “Ingredients,” the […]
Read MoreScreengrabs: TikTok/@jessicapearsoneastwind You may have seen a recent viral video of a guitar-wielding woman serenading passengers on a delayed flight. Or maybe you saw a woman breaking out into song after getting stuck in an elevator full of people, and then again after getting stuck on a train. As it turns out, all of these viral […]
Read MoreThe ban comes amid fears the Chinese government could use TikTok to harvest user data. Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Australia has banned the use of TikTok on all government devices, citing security fears and advice from national intelligence agencies. The ban, which was announced by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus on Tuesday, makes Australia the final […]
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Warhol.SS, Jerett Wasserman and Adam22 attend Rolling Loud Fueled by West Coast Cure Los Angeles.Photo: Jerod Harris (Getty Images) A new investigation by Media Matters for America has revealed that the podcast “No Jumper” has been using its cultural currency to platform white supremacists. That currency is due to hip hop, and when the show […]
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Screenshot: Tiktok The pace at which social media videos go viral and then are forgotten about makes 24-hour news cycles seem downright glacial. So you’ll wonder why we’re bringing up this TikTok clip from two years ago, where comedian and actor Kevin Hart helped blow up a creator by acknowledging how much the guy actually […]
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Screenshot: Tiktok and Muyana Nataha The pace at which social media videos go viral and then are forgotten about makes 24-hour news cycles seem downright glacial. So you’ll wonder why we’re bringing up this TikTok clip from two years ago, where comedian and actor Kevin Hart helped blow up a creator by acknowledging how much […]
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Judge Carl Nichols ruled in favor of TikTok in December 2020, concluding that the ban would run afoul of the Berman Amendment’s restrictions. “Those intended objects include stopping the exportation of data (which the government itself defines as ‘text, images, video, and audio’) to China and stopping the importation of propaganda into the United States,” […]
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Members of Congress accused TikTok of collecting user data, failing to moderate content, putting minors at risk, and providing the Chinese government with access to private user information. All social media platforms, from Meta to Google and Twitter, collect user data. Alben explained to The New Republic that certain categories of data are protected, such […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23, 2023, amid a chorus of calls from members of Congress for the federal government to ban the Chinese-owned video social media app and reports that the Biden administration is pushing for the […]
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Meanwhile, Republican Representative Matt Rosendale has been lobbying the FWS to delist the grizzly bear from the endangered species list, too—something the FWS is now doing. Similar to the gray wolf, the grizzly bear has only recently begun to spring back, and certainly not to the same extent as before human-caused over-hunting and habitat loss. […]
Read MoreA big part of my childhood breakfast was waking up to an Eggo Waffle with way too much maple syrup. I’m grateful I didn’t have an almond mom, because a kid not partaking in frozen breakfast staples sounds like a joyless childhood. Plus, how on Earth would I ever graduate to the world of adult […]
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before Congress on Thursday in a four hour hearing about the social media site’s impact. The hearing, which is somehow still going on as I write this, has been equal parts embarrassing and ludicrous. During the hearing, various members of Congress invoked the sanctity and security of America’s children as […]
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Back in 2018, precocious toddler Jayla Cummings went viral for giving her daycare teacher in Savannah, Georgia a piece of her mind. Though the video was originally filmed in 2015, it resurfaced three years later. The clip has now been discovered on TikTok, leaving many wondering where Jayla has been. CC Off English In it, […]
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A 21-year-old hairstylist poured her savings into buying land in North Carolina to place three school buses she would use to provide mobile hair services. However, according to The Guardian, her dream came to a hard stop after being racially harassed and having her property vandalized with obscenities. CC Off English Angel Pittman didn’t just […]
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