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  • Cue the Violins, It’s Time for Matt Lauer’s Apology

    And, now, for one of the most predictable parts of this horrid news cycle, the part in which the serial harasser makes the heartfelt apology. This time, it’s Matt Lauer’s turn. The bulk of the top story for Thursday’s Today show—the morning show Lauer anchored for two decades—was spent on his apology. It was read…

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  • Who the Hell at NBC Approved Matt Lauer’s in-Office Sex Dungeon?

    By now you’ve heard that Matt Lauer was summarily drop-kicked from the Today show Wednesday morning after NBC executives learned of his “inappropriate sexual behavior.” As it turns out, completely coincidentally, multiple outlets had been working on stories about Lauer’s long-term harassment of women at NBC. On Wednesday afternoon, Variety published a piece that spilled…

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  • After Black Transgender Woman Is Killed in Oklahoma City, Police Are Still Searching for Answers

    Around 2:30 Monday morning, Oklahoma City police responded to a disturbance at a local motel. Upon arriving, they found the body of Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson, a 31-year-old black transgender woman. She had been murdered. As Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV reports, police are still unsure what the killer or killers’ motives might have been and have made…

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  • Spelman Grad Bringing Prince George’s County, Md., Its 1st Medicinal-Cannabis Dispensary

    At 25, Hope Wiseman is set to become the country’s youngest black female owner of a cannabis dispensary. The medicinal-cannabis dispensary, Mary and Main, will open in winter 2018 in Prince George’s County, Md., and will offer a variety of products and therapy treatments. With a recommendation from a registered physician in hand, customers can…

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  • Matt Lauer Fired From Today Show for ‘Inappropriate Sexual Behavior’

    Matt Lauer, longtime host of the Today show on NBC, has been fired after a colleague came forward to NBC executives Monday night with a detailed complaint about sexual misconduct on the part of the leading morning-news anchor. NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack sent out a memo to network employees Wednesday morning announcing Lauer’s termination…

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  • Why Are You Like This? Thirsty White Makeup Artist Doubles Down on Blackface 

    If you thought, with the passing of Halloween, that we were safely out of blackface season, you thought wrong. One white makeup artist is making waves on social media this week after posting an ignorant—and chalky as fuck—makeup transformation that shows him morphing from a pasty white boy to a pasty white boy wearing blackface…

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  • How Jeff Sessions’ Lying Ass Could Help the Cop Who Killed Walter Scott Get a Lighter Sentence

    Birds of a feather flock together. Or did they? They can’t recall exactly. If they did, it wasn’t improper, and it was definitely in self-defense. Michael Slager, a former North Charleston, S.C., cop, is currently standing trial for the death of Walter Scott, an unarmed black motorist. While criminal charges against Slager ended in a…

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  • North Carolina Names Highway for Groundbreaking Black Historian and Civil Rights Advocate

    A stretch of Interstate 85 in Durham, N.C., has been named for the trailblazing black historian John H. Franklin, who directly confronted America’s racist history and helped shaped the discourse around America’s legacy of slavery. The stretch of road was dedicated to the influential scholar Monday afternoon at the Hayti Heritage Center. As the Raleigh…

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  • She’s Your Princess-to-Be: Prince Harry Puts a Ring on Meghan Markle

    American actress and gender-equality advocate Meghan Markle is now engaged to the Obamas’ favorite redhead, Prince Harry of Wales. The news was released through a statement from Blackingham Palace the Clarence House, one of the royal residences in London. Apparently, Markle and Prince Harry have been engaged since earlier this month. Their wedding is set…

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  • The New York Times Whitesplains Its Awful Neo-Nazi Profile

    The New York Times responded to its readers Sunday after a “puff piece” about a neo-Nazi that ran over the weekend garnered a swift and ferocious backlash. The piece, titled “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland” and written by the Times’ Richard Fausset, strives to paint Nazi sympathizer Tony Hovater and his wife, Maria,…

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