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Long-running TV game show Jeopardy! and its annual teen tournament has been going strong for years. However, nothing could have prepared host Alex Trebek for one of the cockiest tournament winners of all time in 17-year-old high school senior Leonard Cooper.

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Either Alicia Keys hasn’t quite broken up with her iPhone, or someone is out to get her. Since she’s been named the Global Creative Director of Blackberry, Keys should be taking every opportunity to promote the reboot the fledgling technology empire, but some sneaky hacker won’t allow that.

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A group of Black and Hispanic supervisors filed suit against New York’s Sanitation Department yesterday, alleging that they were subject to discrimination and denied promotions.  The class-action suit filed in Manhattan Federal claims that while more than half of street-level Sanitation workers are Black and Hispanic, a scant percentage of supervisors are people of color.

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Love stinks. You know it, we know it, the world knows it; but one day out of the year we have to bite the bullet and get “all romantical” and stuff. Word to Flavor Flav. 

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Over the weekend, Future dropped a remix to his “Karate Chop” track that features Lil Wayne. During his verse, Weezy dropped a disrespectful punchline that used the name of Emmett Till. The family of the then 14-year-old Black boy that was murdered in 1955 in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman is none too happy […]

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It can’t really be this serious, but perhaps social media is more important that we thought. An argument over Instagram ended with two women in Smyrna, Ga. getting hot grease thrown in their faces. 

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The partisan division in Congress was one of the main points of President Obama’s State of the Union, and during the address Tuesday (Feb. 12) night, he urged both sides to come together. As he did during his run for re-election, the POTUS promised to continue to work on restoring the economy, but also addressed […]

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The Weeknd’s new video for “Twenty Eight” is one of the bonus songs from his major label debut release, Trilogy. 

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Multinational banking and finance company Barclays struggled in the last three months of 2012, leading to the company to post a loss of $1.3 billion.

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DMX was arrested in South Carolina early this morning for driving without a license. X was pulled over with his 5-month-old daughter in the backseat of the car.

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Beyoncé celebrated the premiere of her HBO special, Life Is But A Dream last night in New York City. 

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The god of the trap, Gucci Mane, is back for a second round for his new mixtape Trap God 2.