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Dave Chappelle Revisits 'Give Him a Chance' Comments About Trump: 'There's Got to Be More Cultural Sensitivity'
In a recent sit-down with CNN’s Van Jones, Dave Chappelle revisited his public plea to give Donald Trump a chance, telling the host that he felt like he didn’t have much choice at the time. Chappelle also expressed disappointment in the president’s “repugnant” rhetoric. The comments were made during an SNL monologue Chappelle did shortly…
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Cornerstore Caroline Finally Apologizes for Falsely Accusing 9-Year-Old Boy of Sexually Assaulting Her, but Not Before Lying Some More
The white woman nationally known and locally heckled as “Cornerstore Caroline” now says she’s sorry for falsely accusing a 9-year-old black boy of sexually assaulting her. The delayed apology came from Theresa Klein on Friday night, after she watched surveillance footage from the Sahara Deli clearly showing the boy’s backpack brushing up against her as…
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Scream Town Resurrected: Halloween Park That Posted 'Zero Tolerance With Somalis' Will Remain Open [Updated]
It turns out isolating an entire nationality and encouraging employees to kick them out of your establishment is bad for business. Scream Town, a popular 30-acre Halloween-themed park nestled just outside of Chaska, Minn., has effectively been shut down, thanks to a Facebook post that told employees the park had a “zero tolerance policy with…
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Washington State Abolishes the Death Penalty, Finding the Punishment ‘Racially Biased’
Washington state’s Supreme Court abolished the death penalty on Thursday on the grounds that it was applied randomly and “in a racially biased manner,” thus violating the state’s constitution. With the decision, Washington is now the 20th U.S. state to ban capital punishment. The case striking down capital punishment was brought forward by a black…
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Halloween Theme Park Says It's Sorry (Kind of) for 'Zero Tolerance With Somalis' Policy
Scream Town, a Halloween-themed park outside of Chaska, Minn., is backtracking after sending their employees a scarily idiotic (and highly racist, and likely, highly illegal) missive banning Somalis from the establishment. According to the Star Tribune, the post was written by Scream Town owner Matt Dunn and shared to a private Facebook group for the…
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Barry Jenkins Discovers He and James Baldwin Had Similar Visions for 'If Beale Street Could Talk' Adaptation
During the course of filming If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins tried to stay loyal to the vision and flavor of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name. Jenkins filmed in Harlem, where Baldwin’s tragic love story takes place, and the film recently premiered at the Apollo Theater, not far from where Baldwin…
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Trump Supporter Accuses His Lyft Driver of 'Being Racist Against Gay People' Before Calling Him a Racial Slur
A gay Trump supporter has a lot of reckoning to do after a video of him confronting a black Lyft driver recently went viral. In a video recorded by driver Shawn Pepas Lettman, three young men can be seen harassing Lettman after he allegedly refused to let them play music, reports Instinct Magazine. The initial…
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Alec Baldwin Wants You to Know Black People Really, Really Love His Trump Impression
In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Alec Baldwin lets loose more than a few thoughts he could have either 1) kept to himself, or 2) worked through with a close group of wise and even-tempered friends. But Baldwin did not do those things, opting instead to let loose a bunch of cringe-worthy statements…
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Tale of a Timeline: Azealia Banks Feuds with Lana Del Ray and Everyone Loses
If you were off Twitter last night, consider yourself blessed—but also, apologies for what I’m about to share with you. If you were on Twitter and witnessed this unabashed display of messy, let’s take this time to unpack and commiserate together. Tuesday night, Azealia Banks, eager to get her unverified Twitter account popping again and…
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The People's Eyeroll: Dwayne Johnson's Casting as John Henry Prompts Deserved Backlash
Dwayne Johnson has a lane, and he’s rocked the hell out of it. Truth be told, it’s a lucrative lane: the affable action star has made good money off of, well, being an affable action star. But on Tuesday, with the announcement of his latest project, an adaptation of the African-American folk hero John Henry,…
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