This Week in Black Twitter: #LochteGate and white privilege, Frank Ocean releases new music

And then the trolling started.

2. Frank Ocean finally released new music with his visual album "Endless" just before midnight Thursday.

I say finally because an album was supposed to drop in July 2015 and has had several rumored release dates.

It's been a long wait for his fans who fell in love with "Channel Orange" in 2012. So for many, it was an emotional moment.

3. Actor Nate Parker's involvement in a 1999 rape case came to light recently, leaving his upcoming film "The Birth of a Nation" shrouded in controversy.

A woman accused Nate Parker and his friend Jean Celestin (who is the co-writer for "The Birth of a Nation") of raping her while they attended Penn State University. Parker was acquitted, according to The New York Times. Celestin initially was convicted, but his conviction was later overturned. Parker and Celestin said the sex was consensual.

On Wednesday, after recently learning his accuser committed suicide, Parker addressed the situation on Facebook.

"As a 36-year-old father of daughters and person of faith, I look back on that time as a teenager and can say without hesitation that I should have used more wisdom. ... I see now that I may not have shown enough empathy even as I fought to clear my name. Empathy for the young woman and empathy for the seriousness of the situation I put myself and others in."

While some plan to separate the art from the artist and still show up at theaters, others can't seem to do so.

Michael Arceneaux wrote for Complex about struggling with wanting to support Parker's film. But he decided "no story is important enough to compromise my humanity."

"Now that I've learned more about Parker's past, I can confidently say he won't get a dime from me. No powerful Black narrative should come at the expense of the violation of a woman's body."

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