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Ex-Shelter Worker Says New Staffers Received Just 1 Week of Training to Work With Traumatized Migrant Children
A former staffer who called out conditions at an Arizona migrant shelter had more to say this weekend about the poor management of centers currently housing undocumented children. Antar Davidson spoke with MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian on Sunday (h/t Raw Story) about the Estrella del Norte shelter in Tucson, Ariz. The shelter has served as a…
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Bill Cosby Rep Refutes Rumors Camille Wants Out: ‘No Issues in the Marriage’
Responding to rumors published online last week, a representative for Bill Cosby spoke out Friday to assert that “there are no issues” in Bill and Camille Cosby’s marriage. A report from Radar Online, published Wednesday, claimed that the two were heading to splitsville after over 50 years of marriage (and, for Bill, accusations of sexual…
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Flipping the Narrative: Movement to Publicly Honor Black Journalists and Newspapers Grows
This weekend, two trailblazing black newspapers were honored in New Orleans’ French Quarter with a new bronze plaque that heralds their achievements and their contributions to America’s black press and, by extension, black life. L’Union and la Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orleans (the New Orleans Tribune) circulated among a vast national readership during the Civil War…
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We’ve Been Here Before: A Psychologist Calls Out the Horrifying Familiarity of America’s Treatment of Migrant Children
Amid a deluge of recent reports on the terrors that migrants are facing at the U.S. border, including stories of families being ripped apart and planned “tent cities” for unaccompanied children, public pressure is mounting against the Trump administration to change course on its draconian and cruel immigration policy. A number of professional organizations have…
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Professional Instagrammer Bow Wow Tells Jamie Foxx’s Accuser to ‘Go Get a Fucking Job’
Leave it to Bow Wow—a man whose most recent claims to fame are lying on Instagram and starting Taco Bell-grade beef with other washed-up rappers—to offer up his unsolicited thoughts on #MeToo and sexual harassment. On Thursday the rapper (?) took to Instagram to share his thoughts on a recently revealed sexual assault allegation against…
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Parkland, Fla., School Monitor Who Didn’t Confront Shooter Was Accused of Sexually Harassing Students: Report
Andrew Medina, a security monitor at Parkland, Fla.’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, saw accused shooter Nikolas Cruz step onto campus the day of the massacre. Despite suspecting that something was wrong—Medina said he radioed another monitor and told him to “keep your eyes” open—Medina himself didn’t confront the shooter. Now a new report reveals…
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Black Woman Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Casting Illegal Ballot Will Not Get New Trial
A Texas woman and ex-offender who received a harsh five-year jail sentence for voting illegally will not get a new trial, a judge decided Monday. According to the New York Times, Judge Ruben Gonzalez, the same judge who sentenced 43-year-old Crystal Mason to the lengthy jail term, turned down her bid for a retrial. In…
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It’s Official: London Breed 1st Black Woman Elected Mayor of San Francisco
On Wednesday, after a neck and neck race in which thousands of provisional ballots needed to be counted, London Breed officially became the first black woman elected mayor of San Francisco after her opponent, fellow Democrat Mark Leno, conceded the primary race. The election, held June 5, was so tight that the San Francisco Department…
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I Don’t Have Enough Ambien for This: Roseanne Claims Valerie Jarrett Tweet Was About Anti-Semitism
Roseanne, beloved, the lesson here was to delete your account. Unfortunately for us, learning lessons isn’t exactly Roseanne Barr’s forte. The washed-up comedian, who recently lost her ABC sitcom over a racist tweet about former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, hopped onto Twitter Wednesday night in an attempt to reclaim the narrative—and prove that she…
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‘Operation Broken Heart’: 2,300 Suspected Child-Sex Offenders Nabbed in Nationwide Operation
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has arrested more than 2,300 suspected online child-sex offenders during a nationwide operation that lasted three months. The sweep, called “Operation Broken Heart,” was conducted by the Internet Crimes Against Children task forces and homed in on online sex offenders specifically. According to the Justice Department, the alleged…
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