Getty Image Aerosmith unveiled their rescheduled North American dates for the return of their farewell Peace Out tour. Those who had previously purchased tickets will still be able to use them. For those who didn’t buy tickets yet for the tour, they will go back on sale on Friday, April 12 at 10 a.m. local …
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Scientists Find 140 Trillion Times The Water In All Our Oceans Swirling Around A Gigantic Black Hole That’s A Billion Times Bigger Than The Sun
Scientists have made an incredible discovery: they found a ginormous amount of water in a black hole 12 billion light-years away. An ocean in the heart of a black hole! How much water are we talking about? Well, it’s so much that if you took all the water from Earth’s oceans and multiplied it by …
29 Black Twitter Tweets That I'm 99% Sure Will Have You Gasping For Breath Between Laughs
“Heard there was an earthquake, reached out to know you’re safe. This is the second time I felt the ground beneath me shake since you left.” View Entire Post › Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/hilarious-black-tweets-april-8th
Pharrell Williams Dropped A New Album, ‘Virginia: Black Yacht Rock Vol. 1,’ While You Were Arguing About Kendrick Lamar And J. Cole
Getty Image One of music’s biggest artists just pulled a Beyoncé, quietly dropping a new album without warning in the middle of the night. No, it wasn’t J. Cole, whose mixtape Might Delete Later has been dominating social media discussion today as a result of his “7 Minute Drill” call-out of Kendrick Lamar. While y’all …
Extremely online sheriff used Reddit to defend hiring cop who killed Black man—the cop resigned the next day
A Washington state police officer who was acquitted in the 2020 death of a Black man in December 2023 was hired at a different police department in the state earlier this week. After receiving backlash online and explaining his reasoning for the hiring on Reddit, Sheriff Derek Sanders announced the police officer resigned. Manuel Ellis …
The Universe’s Biggest Black Hole Could Consume A Sun Every Day And Is 500 Trillion Brighter Than Our Sun
We hear about black holes all of the time, but it can be hard for our puny human brains to grasp how huge “super massive” really is. And that definitely applies to the biggest one in our universe. Quasar J0529-4351 is the fastest growing black hole ever recorded, eating the equivalent of our sun’s energy …
Deplatformed: Jack Black: Would you?
Deplatformed is a weekly column that looks into the nether reaches of the internet—outside the big few that everyone already covers—to tell you the political discourse online. It runs on Thursdays in the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter. If you want to get this column a day before we publish it, subscribe to web_crawlr, where you’ll get the daily scoop of internet culture …
Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ becomes racist rallying cry after Black woman cast in stage revival
Racist and racially-coded discourse ran amok on social media earlier this week after the cast of the forthcoming West End production of “Romeo and Juliet” was announced, with Tom Holland as Romeo and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, a Black woman, as Juliet. But some social media users are hitting back at the discourse with memes and quips …
A police officer makes a profound statement after pulling over a Black teen
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” In October 2016, that was a quote from Albert Einstein that sat atop the Facebook page of Tim McMillan, a police officer in Georgia. McMillan become a sensation after a post he wrote on his Facebook wall went …
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Jack Black Really Wants A ‘Grand Theft Auto’ And/Or ‘Red Dead Redemption’ Movie
Getty Image Jack Black is the benevolent king of the video game movie (he’s appeared in actual video games, too). The Tenacious D singer deserved an Oscar nomination for his performance in Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and he’s also set to provide the voice for Claptrap in Borderlands and Steve in Minecraft, …
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I Scroll Through Black Twitter Like I'm Not On The Clock, So Here Are The 24 Funniest Tweets I Could Find
“Jolene really messed with ONE woman’s man and is still getting whacked 51 years later. Your legacy is trash, mama.” View Entire Post › Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/funniest-black-tweets-april-1st
‘I’m really trying not to cry’: Black woman hit by NYC puncher says she was treated differently than white victims
A man who previously claimed he is the descendant of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey has recently dedicated his life to walking around Manhattan and allegedly punching women in the head. 40-year-old Skiboky Stora was charged with assault and would often throw his name in contention to become Mayor of New York City. After reports of …