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Missouri Restaurant Owner Pushes State to Let Him Hire More People With Felony Convictions
Missourians across the state are pushing to change laws that bar felons from working certain jobs, and lawmakers are listening. A bill passed out of a state committee earlier this week would reverse current legislation that prohibits people convicted of a felony from participating in the sale of alcohol and lottery tickets. Among the bill’s…
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Washington State Takes Crucial Step Toward Abolishing the Death Penalty
The Washington state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would ban the death penalty, leading the state one step closer to ending the practice for good. As the Seattle Times reports, the bill passed the Democratic-led Senate with bipartisan support. The measure would strike the death penalty from being considered as a sentencing option for…
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Fox News Response to School Shooting Is to Praise the AR-15
Within hours of another deadly mass shooting at another school in the United States—the only country where this happens regularly—conservative bile spewer Laura Ingraham appeared on Fox News not just to defend, but to praise the AR-15 rifle that helped a young gunman kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.…
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Your Supervillain Boyfriend Michael Bae Jordan Shows Love to the #BlackPantherChallenge
Newark, N.J., native and finest supervillain to ever grace a film screen (don’t @ me on this) Michael B. Jordan attended a special Black Panther screening for young adults on Tuesday. According to RLS media, the event was planned by Jordan himself and drew hundreds of kids from My Brother’s Keeper, the Boys and Girls…
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Lena Horne’s Family Responds to NYC Principal Accused of Blocking Black History Month Lessons
Updated Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, at 2:40 p.m. EST: Following reports that a Bronx, N.Y., middle school principal confiscated a poster of Lena Horne from a student, Jenny Lumet, granddaughter of the legendary actress, issued a statement to The Root on behalf of the Horne family: The Horne Family sends its love, support, and deepest…
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Immigrant Faces Deportation After Calling Police for Help
A Honduran immigrant and father of three is facing deportation after calling the police for help. Wilson Rodriguez Macarreno was getting ready for work early Thursday morning when he noticed a stranger looking into his home in Tukwila, Wash. As the Washington Post reports, the 32-year-old carpenter grew concerned about the safety of his 3-year-old…
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Cop Who Arrested Meek Mill Was Suspected of Having Racial Bias, Lying Under Oath: Report
The fight to free Meek Mill may have reached a turning point. Multiple outlets are reporting that the officer who arrested Meek in 2007 was in a secret document compiled by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office that listed cops suspected of racial bias, brutality or abuse, and lying in court. The district attorney put together…
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The Wonder of Wakanda: How This Black Utopian Space Is a Game Changer for Artists and Audiences
On a rainy Friday afternoon in January, rivulets of black comic fans trickled through the halls of Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The occasion was the annual Black Comic Book Festival—an event that draws thousands of comic enthusiasts, creators, publishers and collectors. Black Panther tickets had just gone on sale days before,…
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Here’s Why It’s Called Robbin’ Season: New Trailer for Season 2 of Atlanta Drops
A little more than two weeks away from Atlanta’s highly anticipated second season, a new trailer for the FX dramedy is sure to whet the appetites of fans starving for “Robbin’ Season.” The Hollywood Reporter also provided some additional context for the new season, which is named for the bump in crime that happens between…
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There’s a Reason a TV Station Mixed Up P.F. Chang’s and Pyeongchang—and It’s Predictably Trash
Asian Americans are killing it at the Olympic Games so far, which would be a great story for one Chicago-area news station to cover—if it could just remember where the hell the Olympics were happening. Hint: It’s not gotdamn P.F. Chang’s. Now, before you hit me with Anne, no one is seriously mixing up P.F.…
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