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Because after all, it could be worse.

The Tri-State Fair Parade kicked off the annual event on Saturday, September 17th.

Fox Searchlight’s awards season plans for The Birth of a Nation have grown increasingly complicated in recent weeks, as reports surfaced revealing that the director and star of the historical drama has a troubled history of his own. Although details of Nate Parker’s alleged involvement and subsequent acquittal in a 1999 sexual assault was available to the public (it’s on his Wikipedia page) before the studio acquired the rights to distribute the Sundance hit, it was only recently that the case became a point of controversy. Despite all of this, according to Fox Searchlight, their plans to release the film in October have not changed.

Some Minnesota residents are unhappy about Ted Nugent's plans to play at their local county fair — and they're refusing to go quietly.

A pool safety poster has the Red Cross is some hot water.

A middle school teacher in Mobile, Ala. has made waves after handing out a a racially-charged math test to students with references to drugs, sex and guns.

A family trip to the zoo has turned into a national debate after a child wound up in the gorilla enclosure on Saturday, leading to the animal's death.

The former Skid Row singer didn't appreciate a negative review of a recent concert.

Whether you're conservative or liberal, there's one thing you can agree on: this video is filled with drama.

Snapchat is under fire after using Bob Marley's face for its latest face filter to celebrate 4/20 aka the ultimate weed smokers' holiday.

Tupac Shakur would be disappointed. A couple of high-school teenagers donned blackface at a party with one of them dressed as the late rapper.

When the 2016 Oscar nominations were announced nearly two weeks ago, the response to the overwhelmingly white line-up of talent proved instantly controversial. Film fans and industry veterans alike gathered around the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag to make their voices heard, especially decrying how films starring black actors and directed by black filmmakers — like Creed and Straight Outta Compton — somehow managed to only receive nominations for the white people involved in making them. With material this ripe, of course SNL was going to take a swipe at the Academy Awards this week.