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Is This Your God? Study Says Most Americans Think God Looks Like Chad From Applebee’s
Psychologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill asked American Christians what they believed God looks like, and apparently, God looks like the lunch manager at your local Applebee’s. That is to say, a youngish, friendly looking white dude. In a study published this week in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One, researchers wanted…
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Since We’re in a Pardoning Mood … Former Detroit Mayor Shoots His Pardon Shot With Trump in New Blog Post
Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, currently serving a 28-year stint in a Philadelphia federal prison for corruption charges, says he’s praying for a pardon from President Donald Trump. In a new blog post on the “Free Kwame Project” website (h/t Click on Detroit), Kilpatrick lays out 1,300 words on why he should be exonerated,…
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The 1st Black Woman to Reach the North and South Poles Has the Best Advice for You
In 2011, Barbara Hillary, a 79-year-old retired nurse, became the first black woman to reach the South Pole. Just four years earlier, Hillary stood on top of the world as the first black woman to ski the North Pole—a mere two years after a bout with cancer. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. recently caught up with…
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Trump Administration Considers ‘Tent Cities’ to House Thousands of Unaccompanied Migrant Children
The Trump administration is reportedly looking to erect “tent cities” at military posts around Texas to house thousands of migrant children who have arrived unaccompanied or have been forcibly separated from their parents at the border. The report, from McClatchy’s Washington, D.C., bureau, indicates that the Department of Health and Human Services is scoping out…
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NYC Schools Chancellor Tells Desegregation Opponents: No One ‘Owns Admission’ to Top Schools
New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza minced no words Tuesday when he addressed Asian activists opposing a new plan to desegregate the city’s specialized public schools. Members of some Asian communities had expressed outrage over a new plan that would change the admissions process for the city’s most competitive and prestigious high schools, calling…
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An Ode to Scamming and NYC: Rapper Awkwafina on the Diversity and Strength of Ocean’s 8
If Paris is the City of Lights, then New York is the City of Hustle. Perhaps no other city in the world is so emblematic of competition and drive—the Frank Sinatra-era mantra, “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere,” indelibly imprinted into the city’s ethos no matter which borough or which…
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Food Truck Worker Who Attacked Black Woman Says ‘I’m African, Too’
Islam El Masry, the Portland, Ore., food truck driver caught on video throwing a Gatorade bottle at a black customer and verbally abusing her, wants you to know that he’s not a racist. “My father is black. I’m African, too,” the owner of the Small Pharoah food cart told KGW-TV Thursday. He said he was…
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Ben Carson Backs Off Newest HUD Plan, Which Would Raise Rent for Poor Households by 20 Percent
During a press conference in Detroit on Thursday, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson appeared to back off from a controversial plan that would have raised rent among the poorest Americans. Talking about the new initiative, Carson said that other funding had come through, so there was no need to increase rent payments,…
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White Football Coach Accused of Using a Noose as a ‘Joke’ to Intimidate a Black Student Gets Paid Leave
A San Jose, Calif., high school teacher and assistant football coach has been placed on leave—but will still be collecting a paycheck—after an incident during which he allegedly simulated a noose to intimidate the lone black student among a group of football players. The Mercury News, citing police, reports that the Santa Teresa High School…
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A Deliveryman Brought Pizza Pies to a Brooklyn, NY, Military Base. Now He’s Facing Deportation
It wasn’t the first time Pablo Villavicencio delivered pizzas to the base. But on June 1, on a run to the Fort Hamilton military base in Brooklyn, N.Y., Villavicencio was asked by security to provide an ID. As he had done in the past, he presented his New York City ID—a free, government-based ID card…
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