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Sony Brasil Pays $1.2 Million for Racist Track

Sony Brasil Pays $1.2 Million for Racist Track

January 5, 2012 | Shannon Washington

Ladies, when you hear complaints about hip-hop’s misogynist and disrespectful lyrics towards women of color, remember that at least the media and music indsurty in the US bows to popular … Read the rest

above: Kreayshawn 

It’s the Friday before Christmas, but it’s full of fuckery for Brown/Black female hip-hop fans and sneakerheads … like me. First, the new Air Jordan 11 Concords were … Read the rest

Rihanna, Jackie And Our Responsibility

Rihanna, Jackie And Our Responsibility

December 21, 2011 | Shannon Washington

Video model cast of E!’s “Candy Girls”

Since Monday morning, the Parlour crew on both sides of the Atlantic have been mutually shocked, angry and busy breaking and translating the … Read the rest

Jackie Mag Editor Eva Hoeke Quits Following Rihanna ‘Niggabitch’ Debacle

Sometimes a joke … is not a joke. Sadly, Eva Hoeke (at left), Editor-In-Chief of Dutch magazine Jackie learned this the hard way in the past 36 hours when she … Read the rest

Rihanna Responds To Jackie Mag Editor

Rihanna Responds To Jackie Mag Editor

December 20, 2011 | Shannon Washington

Yesterday, our post about one very stupid magazine editor calling Rihanna one very stupid term blazed around the Internets and eventually made it’s way to Rih-Rih herself. If you thought … Read the rest

Dutch Mag Jackie Calls Rihanna ‘Ultimate Niggabitch’



In an article published in the latest issue of Dutch fashion magazine Jackie, the magazine offers a little advice on how to dress like Rihanna without looking like the … Read the rest

?uestlove Gets Censored By NBC, But Why?

?uestlove Gets Censored By NBC, But Why?

December 8, 2011 | Shannon Washington

Other than waking up to a fever and runny nose, hearing the new that NBC executives have censored Roots drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson over his Michele Bachmann prank was enough … Read the rest

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