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White Kansas City Security Guard Placed on Leave After Asking Black Bartender to Make a 'Trayvon Martini'
A Kansas City security guard and former police officer is on administrative leave after allegedly walking into a bar and ordering a “Trayvon Martini” from a black bartender. The story first gained traction on social media when a Buzzard Beach bartender, Alobar Bandaloop, detailed the interaction and shared it on his Facebook page on Monday…
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No, Your Pretend Boyfriend of 10 Years Will Not Be the Next James Bond
It’s with the heaviest of hearts and the deepest regrets that we inform you that Idris Elba, the man with whom you’ve established a long, committed and meaningful, if completely one-sided relationship, will not be playing James Bond. Elba had teased the possibility last week on his social media accounts last week (you know how…
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Michelle Obama Gets Personal in New 'When We All Vote' Message
Election day is a little more than two months away, and—as you’re probably well aware—this one is kind of a big deal. This year’s midterms have taken on the kind of urgency we typically see in presidential elections. And why wouldn’t it? Americans have seen migrant children torn away from their families and thrown into…
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So Long, 'Silent Sam': Demonstrators Topple Confederate Statue at UNC Chapel Hill
For more than 100 years, “Silent Sam,” a bronze statue representing a Confederate soldier, stood vigil on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. On Monday night, his watch ended, as student protesters tore the statue off its pedestal. As the Charlotte Observer reports, a protest held on the UNC campus Monday…
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Father of Black Teen Shot in the Back by St. Louis PD Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
The father of a black teen shot in the back by St. Louis police three years ago has filed a wrongful death suit against the officer that killed his son. Filed last Friday in a St. Louis federal court, the suit alleges that two white St. Louis officers overreacted when they shot and killed 18-year-old…
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Forever and Ever You'll Stay in These Charts: Aretha Franklin Greatest Hits Album Reaches Billboard Top 10 Following Her Death
The Queen of Soul, true to form, is posthumously ruling the charts this week. Billboard reports that following Franklin’s death last week, her 30 Greatest Hits album hit the top 10 on the Billboard 200, which tracks album sales. Not only are sales for the album up an astounding 12,693 percent, this also marks the…
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ICE Claims Undocumented Immigrant Arrested While Driving Pregnant Wife to Hospital Is a Murder Suspect in Mexico [Updated]
Updated Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 9:30 AM EDT: A lawyer for an undocumented man arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as he was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital for a planned cesarean-section says the arrest is a result of mistaken identity. Following the controversial arrest, which was caught on camera thanks to…
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When Your 'Sex Diary' Becomes the Poster Child for Racial Festishizing
Before this morning, I didn’t even know The Cut’s “Sex Diaries” existed. The regular column is essentially an outsourced Sex and the City Carrie Bradshaw piece, inviting anonymous New Yorkers to chronicle their “comic, tragic, often sexy, and always revealing” sex diaries for a week. Something about it seems vaguely quaint, but whatever. Content is…
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Here's What the Last American President Who Read a Book Is Reading This Summer
By now, we’re well acquainted with the fact that Barack Obama loves a list. During his presidency (ah yes, let’s all sit with this memory for a moment) and after, the Cookout DJ-in-Chief would share playlists, including one summer 2016 playlist that was adorably separated into “daytime” and “nighttime” installments (included in the night-time playlist…
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Ready for Their Closeup: What Crazy Rich Asians Means to the People Who Made It
Director Jon M. Chu thought he was done with crying over Crazy Rich Asians. In an interview with The Root, Chu divulged that he and the movie’s cast and crew “cried almost every day on set.” The history-making film is only one of a handful of Hollywood films to boast an all-Asian cast, and is…
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