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Parents Big Mad Over High School Math Teacher’s Drug-Referencing Homework
One high school teacher in Illinois tried an unconventional way of getting students to care about math—drugs. The Roxana, Ill., teacher sent his students home with math homework with word problems centered on cocaine and how much money they might owe a theoretical dealer. Predictably, this created a stir among parents, as ABC affiliate ABC…
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Actor Fired From Film About Police Brutality After Video of Him Making Racist Comments Resurfaces
Twentieth Century Fox has dropped Kian Lawley from upcoming film The Hate U Give after video surfaced of the former YouTube star making racist comments. The Hate U Give, based on Angie Thomas’ best-selling young-adult novel of the same name, centers on the life of Starr Carter, a young black teen, after she witnesses a…
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‘Un-American’ and ‘Treasonous’: Trump Is Really in His Feelings About Democrats Not Clapping During SOTU
Welp, the president sure is in his feelings today. During a visit to a manufacturing plant in Cincinnati on Monday afternoon, NBC News reports, Trump called Democrats’ ice-cold reaction to his State of the Union address “un-American” and “treasonous.” Of course, if Trump had ever tuned in to one of these before, he’d know that…
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Yes, the MLK Estate Did Approve That Trash Dodge Super Bowl Ad
Updated Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, at 1:40 p.m. EST: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., which owns Ram, has made it all too clear that Martin Luther King Jr.’s estate was well aware of that Super Bowl ad and was “a very important part of the creative process every step of the way.” The statement was quoted…
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Your President Is Messy, but He Sure Ain’t Original: Trump Belittles ‘Little’ Democratic Lawmaker
Surprising absolutely no one, President Donald Trump, less than a week after a plea for bipartisanship at his first State of the Union address, is taking his kindergarten-level social skills back to Twitter and bullying a prominent Democratic lawmaker. Today the lawmaker is a Democratic congressman from California, Adam Schiff, who sits on the House…
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Eagles Fans Tear Down Property and Act a Fool After Super Bowl Win, but Police Show Restraint. Amazing
Philly, this is why you don’t get nice things. The city celebrated its first Super Bowl victory (I mean, congratulations) and gifted us with the image of forlorn New England Patriot Tom Brady sitting on the football field, fresh off of fumbling the damn ball (and we are ever grateful). Both of these things—but especially…
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The Nerve: In This Will Be My Undoing, Debut Author Morgan Jerkins Isn’t Afraid to Go There
If you haven’t heard Morgan Jerkins’ name yet or seen her work, chances are you will soon. Her debut collection of personal essays, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, won over Roxane Gay, who lauds Jerkins as a “deft cartographer of black girlhood and…
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Soul Singer Alleges That Kanye West and Solange Knowles Illegally Sampled His Track
Prince Phillip Mitchell, also known as Leon Mitchell, isn’t the sort of household name that Kanye West and Solange are. Still, if you listened to Kanye’s Graduation (the 2007 album went double platinum, so it’s safe to say that most of us have), Mitchell’s work will be familiar to you; his song “If We Can’t…
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‘See How It Feels to Be a Slave?’: NYC Teacher Steps on Student’s Back to Simulate Horrors of Slavery
For the students at Middle School 118 in New York City’s Bronx borough, it was an immersive lesson gone way too far. Teacher Patricia Cummings is catching heat from students and parents after a social studies lesson she delivered about the Middle Passage—one that involved her stepping on her students’ backs. The New York Daily…
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A Clean Slate: San Francisco to Toss Out Thousands of Marijuana Convictions
In an unprecedented move, the city of San Francisco will throw out thousands of marijuana convictions going back decades. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday that city prosecutors will retroactively apply California’s marijuana-legalization laws to past criminal cases dating all the way back to 1975. With no…
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