Random Midday Hotness: Part Of A Complete Breakfast.

Your Random-Ass Roundup: And You Say Chi City.

The Windy City tries to resuscitate the poor, black neighborhoods left vacant by the housing crisis — but at what cost? Before they rose to prominence in Canada’s largest city, the Ford family —  which includes embattled Mayor Rob Ford — was deeply immersed in the illegal drug scene, according to an investigation by the Globe [...]

Ya Mama’s Secret Past.

Ahead of Mother’s Day, wwe asked folks on the Twitters about the sordid details of their mothers’ pasts that they only discovered as they got older. [...]

PB on the Radio.

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Why is the PB fam all over up in your iTunes and your Stitcher, though? [...]

Random Midday Hotness: Six-Year-Old B-Girl Ethers the Whole Universe.

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This can’t be real. Like, this is a grown-up and they’ve done some forced perspective green screen stuff, right? [...]

A Quvenzhané by Any Other Name…

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In the wake of the hullaballoo over folks refusing to say Quvenzhané Wallis’ name got me to thinking: what’s the most hilarious/horrifying experience people have had regarding their “unconventional” or “ethnic” names?

Here’s how Twitter responded.

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Got any stories/gripes of your own? [...]

Random Midday Hotness: Michael Jackson, Lego Man.

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Some person or persons with too much time on their hands put this together, and we are grateful to them for it. [...]

LEONARD OVER EVERYTHING.

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Leonard Cooper of Little Rock, Arkansas is living black history every day. [...]