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Jay-Z and Beyoncé being praised as politically powerful purveyors of pro-Black Pantherism is not without irony.

On the eve of her Super Bowl 50 half time show performance, Beyonce released a politically-charged video, “Formation,” featuring scenes set in the devastated and flooded urban areas of New Orleans and the plush halls of some Louisiana mansions.

During the question and answer portion of a town hall event Wednesday in Minnesota, Chelsea Clinton referred to Hillary’s Democratic rival as “President Sanders.”

During a recent CNN interview with several “Hollywood heavyweights” about the lack of diversity among this year’s Academy Awards nominees, film director Spike Lee chided his “progressive” counterparts in the industry for not being “active” in this “movement.”

Outspoken actress Stacey Dash has written another blog post, this time urging black people to not “listen to liberals who try to limit you.”

A study from The University of Chicago revealed that 47 percent of 20 to 24-year-old black males in Chicago were out of school and out of work in 2014.

Renowned neurosurgeon-turned-Republican-candidate Dr. Ben Carson scolded the media for twisting his words in pursuit of “ratings” and “conflict.”

Fox Searchlight Pictures has landed a record-busting $17.5 million deal for the rights to distribute black filmmaker, writer, and producer Nate Parker’s “Birth of a Nation,” a biopic about Nat Turner, the former slave who led a 48-hour bloody slave rebellion over his white masters in 1831.

Writing in the Washington Post, President Obama promises to ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons and urges Americans to reconsider the method that “triggers depression” among inmates. “It has been linked to depression, alienation,

Adding his name to the growing list of celebrities who’ve decided to downplay the Academy’s lack of black nominees is singer Will.i.am, who is calling the controversy “a waste of energy.”

Actor and rapper Nick Cannon chimed in on the Oscars controversy with a two-minute rap video urging his fellow black entertainers to not be “distracted” by “fake gold and plastic.”

Joining Straight Out Compton producer Ice Cube, who called the “Oscars So White” Academy Awards controversy “ridiculous,” is actor Malik Yoba–who told his fans via Instagram that “being included” in Hollywood “is not a given.”

A black Atlanta woman supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump explained in a video that she can’t believe she ever supported the Democratic party, and threatened to divorce her husband if he didn’t vote Trump for president.

Just hours after declaring that she wishes she were “African American because people don’t bash them,” two-time Oscar Award winning actress Julie Delpy says she is “very sorry for how I expressed myself.”

Responding to the lack of black Academy Award nominees, actress Julie Delpy said she believes there’s “nothing worse than being a woman” in Hollywood and wishes she were black instead.

Actor, writer, and, Straight Out of Compton producer Ice Cube called the “Oscars So White” controversy “ridiculous,” and said not getting approval from the Academy “is not something you should dwell on.”

White rapper Macklemore released “White Privilege II,” a self-flagellating 10-minute song apologizing for the oppression of white privilege. Criticism for the song came quick, and the judgments have been harsh.

White rapper Macklemore has released an excruciatingly self-flagellating near nine-minute song explaining how white privilege is responsible for everything from his own success to why Officer Darren Wilson was “let off” after killing Michael Brown.

Fox News contributor Stacey Dash created quite the controversy this week when she suggested that black entertainers who support self-segregation–à la BET and Black History Month–are hypocrites for trashing the lack of black Oscar nominees. Now Dash is hitting back against her critics.

The lack of black Academy Award nominees has now captured the attention of Congress; Rep. Danny Davis has become the first lawmaker to throw his support behind those boycotting this year’s ceremony.

Considering the massive amount of media attention the lack of black Oscar nominations is receiving, you would think the “Oscars So White” issue is the most consequential calamity facing black Americans since slavery.

In what is sure to become one of the first in a long list of films portraying the life of the Obama’s, “Southside With You” tells the story set in the summer of 1989 of how then-first-year Harvard Law student Barack Obama asked Michelle Robinson out on their first date.

Fresh from an award-winning performance about Miracle Mop creator, Jennifer Lawrence is set to portray Marita Lorenz, the women who was tasked by the CIA to assassinate her lover Fidel Castro.

The mushrooming media frenzy over the lack of black Oscar nominations continued Wednesday with a verbal assault on actress and Fox News contributor Stacey Dash after she suggested that black entertainers be consistent in their calls to end segregation in Hollywood.

White voting members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) are responding to accusations of racism against the organization after last week’s announcement of Oscar nominations that included zero non-white entertainers.

Actress and Fox News contributor Stacey Dash says it’s “ludicrous” for black entertainers to call for a boycott of the Oscars for not nominating black performers while simultaneously supporting the BET and NAACP Awards which only recognize black artists.

The month of April at Portland Community College will be dedicated to “Whiteness History Month,” which the school says is an “educational project” focusing on how the “construct of whiteness” promotes racial inequality.

In a heated discussion about racism in America, The View co-host Joy Behar blasted what she called the “racist rhetoric” coming from the Republican presidential candidates.

Music mogul Russell Simmons sat down with HuffPost Live on Friday and said he hopes leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the primary because that would be good for Democrats like socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders.

During an interview Thursday on The Dale Jackson Show, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) called President Obama the most “racially divisive” president in America since slavery.

Comedian and host of Family Feud Steve Harvey took a break from cracking jokes Wednesday and delivered an inspirational message to his studio audience about what it really means to be successful in life.

In an effort to defy a law requiring voters to present a photo ID in North Carolina, Irving Joyner, North Carolina NAACP Legal Redress Chair, held a press conference Tuesday and said, “We are going out and we are mobilizing people and telling them wherever they are to go to the polls whether you have a picture voter ID or not and demand their right to vote.”

Super star comedian Kevin Hart poured his heart out during Tuesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show and explained how his father’s uncontrollable drug addiction taught him how to be a better dad.

Before President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address Tuesday night, Washington D.C.-based rapper Wale took the stage and performed to a crowd at the WhiteHouse.gov’s #SOTU pre-show.

“The illegal alien gangbanger who executed my son was in jail on gun charges and was given an early release, and murdered my son the next day,” said Jamiel Shaw Sr. exclusively to Breitbart News. “I’m not surprised Barbara Lee didn’t call and invite me and my family to the State of the Union. I’m not surprised President Obama didn’t call me and invite me and my family.”