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Almost a month after Megyn Kelly was fired from NBC, ratings for the third hour of NBC’s “Today” show are up nearly 10 percent. “Today” show ratings have a tendency to rise when a major event takes place at the network. For example, after Matt Lauer’s termination last year over…
Gabrielle Union, in the spirit of Halloween, dressed up as Gwen Stefani and she nailed it. Racist Twitter users, of course, cried foul. The actress transformed herself into the former lead singer of No Doubt over the weekend to celebrate her birthday, and it was right on time for Halloween….
A Halloween event for families, “Trail of Treats,” took place in Owensboro, Ky., and one father thought it would be a good idea to dress his 5-year-old as Adolf Hitler and himself as a Nazi soldier. Bryant Goldbach’s response: Anyone that knows us knows we love history. The public and…
The “Megans” are at it again. Right after Megyn Kelly’s ill-fated blackface comment, another Megan decided blackface was okay to wear to her local Halloween party. Megan Luloff faced incredible backlash after she deemed it appropriate to dress like a Black female character from the movie- “Napoleon Dynamite.” Several photos…
UPDATE: Oct. 25, 2018 at 3:03 p.m. EST NBC has confirmed that Megyn Kelly will not tape live shows for the rest of the week following controversial comments she made about blackface. According to Page Six, Kelly is out at the network. Meanwhile, an NBC executive with knowledge of the…
Megyn Kelly, host of her own daytime talk show on NBC, apologized to colleagues on Tuesday after she made comments defending racist Halloween costumes, specifically blackface, which prompted her to be immediately slammed on social media. Blackface is an extremely offensive form of makeup used predominantly by white performers to…
President Donald Trump brought his disregard for women right back to the forefront with two simple words to a female reporter on Monday: “Be quiet.” The short but powerful response speaks volumes when it comes to Trump’s view on women. Catherine Lucey, an Associated Press reporter, asked the president during…
For some, only a white Santa Claus can come to their town. By Sheryl Estrada Larry “Santa Larry” Jefferson poses with a child. For the first time, the Santa Claus greeting children at Santa Experience in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., was a Black man. But, a nonwhite…
A prominent Donald Trump surrogate and former spokesman for the pro-Trump Great America PAC on Wednesday suggested taking away immigrants’ constitutional rights and said there is “precedent” for enforcing a registry of all Muslim Americans: the internment camps Japanese Americans were held in during the World War II era. The…
An on-air dispute between Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and longtime Fox guest and contributor Newt Gingrich ended with a member of the Trump campaign saying, “Watch what happens to [Kelly] after this election is over.” During an interview on “The Kelly File,” Kelly said that Trump might be a…
