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White Ohio Cop Fired for Detaining Daughter’s Black Boyfriend for No Reason: ‘We’ll Make Shit Up as We Go’
It seems too on the nose: a cop admitting, on camera, that he’ll make up charges on a young black motorist he’s just pulled over. It’s the sort of thing a white person might see on TV and say, “Oh, I just don’t know if that’s realistic.” But that’s exactly what a Lorain, Ohio, police…
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Ava DuVernay Just Hit an Important Milestone for Black Female Directors
Trailblazing director Ava DuVernay can add another important “first” to her list. With A Wrinkle In Time, she’s become the first black female director whose movie earned more than $100 million domestically. DuVernay acknowledged the historic achievement on Twitter earlier this week, writing: “Lovely room to be in. But can’t wait for more sisters to be…
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Damn, Dzaddy: Jesse Williams Ordered to Pay Over $50,000 a Month in Child Support
Well, we know where a good chunk of Jesse Williams’ “Blebrity” money will be going. According to court documents filed in Los Angeles Tuesday and obtained by E! News, Williams has been ordered to pay $50,629 a month in child support to his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, to support their two kids, Maceo, 2, and Sadie,…
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The Hell After: New Report Uncovers Years of Negligence and Physical, Sexual Abuse in Shelters for Migrant Youths
On Wednesday the Trump administration reversed itself on a policy that, until recently, it staunchly defended: forcibly taking migrant children from their families at the southern border. But while family separation may be coming to an end, there is no plan to reunify with their families the approximately 2,000 children sitting in cages in U.S.…
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Trump Administration Drafts Executive Order Ending Separation and Detainment of Migrant Children
The Associated Press is reporting that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen has drafted an executive action that would end the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families caught crossing the border. Nielsen was at the White House today, where Donald Trump also told reporters that he would be “signing something” on immigration soon, AP…
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Time to Stack Your Akoins? Akon Gets In on Cryptocurrency, Says It Could Be ‘the Savior for Africa’
Akon is no stranger to innovation. In 2014 the Senegal-born singer launched Lighting Africa, an initiative that is bringing solar power across the continent. Now Akon has up his sleeve another innovation intended to better the lives of Africans: Akoin, a brand of cryptocurrency that he says could be “the savior for Africa.” Akon announced…
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Virginia Family Calls for Hate Crime Investigation After White Man Calls Daughter N-Word and Hits Her With His Truck
A black Virginia family are alleging that their daughter is the victim of a hate crime after a white man called her the n-word and hit her with his truck, dragging her as he sped away. As WUSA-TV reports, Shaunta Wilkins and Kevin Boston spoke to the Prince William County, Va., NAACP and reporters Tuesday…
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Heard It Through the Grapevine: Dr. Dre Working on Marvin Gaye Biopic
Following the blockbuster success of Straight Outta Compton, Dr. Dre is at the reins of another movie project, this time a much anticipated film about legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye. According to Variety (h/t Page Six), Dre has been given permission by Gaye’s family to bring the iconic musician’s life to the big screen. The…
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Wakanda Stole the Show at This Year’s MTV Movie Awards
The world of Wakanda inundated this year’s MTV Movie & TV Awards, and we’re not mad about it at all. From Tiffany Haddish’s opening sequence, in which she challenges “T’Chadwick Boseman” for the right to rule Wakanda, to Michael B. Jordan’s sharp jab at Roseanne Barr, Black Panther and its cast served us all our…
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Bus Driver Tells Passengers They Must Be US Citizens in Order to Board
As attention turns toward the government-created humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration officials are slowly encroaching into other parts of American life. Over Memorial Day weekend, under the gaze of a Border Patrol agent, a bus driver in Maine told passengers that they needed to be U.S. citizens in order to ride the Concord…
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