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Survey Finds Men of Color Are More Likely to Say Sexual Assault Is a ‘Serious Problem’ Than White Women … for Real
A new Washington Post-ABC poll surveying Americans’ attitudes toward sexual harassment found that women of color were more likely than other groups to say that sexual harassment in the workplace was a “serious problem.” Among those surveyed, 86 percent of nonwhite women said that workplace sexual harassment was a serious problem. That was considerably more…
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Questlove and NBC Sued in Bizarre Racial-Discrimination Case Involving White Cameramen
Two white cameramen are suing NBC and Questlove for racial discrimination, claiming that the prominent drummer for the Roots convinced NBC to fire them because they were white. Kurt Decker and Michael Cimino, two camera operators who used to work on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court in…
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What You Need to Know About Trump’s Speech to the World’s Richest White Men
Donald Trump, a man who at various points in his presidency has resembled a toddler, a dotard and a weird combination of both, mostly colored within the lines today in Davos, Switzerland. Attending the Davos World Economic Forum, a meeting of the most illustrious and insanely rich white men in the world (the 0.05 percent,…
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Did Trump Actually Apologize for Spreading Racist, Hateful Nonsense?
The short answer is nah, fam—regardless of what other headlines might tell you. While in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday for its annual global economic forum, President Donald Trump gave a sort-of apology for retweeting a far-right British group’s videos supposedly showing Islamist violence. In conversation with Piers Morgan (in what sounds like the pastiest, molted…
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Who the Hell Snitches on Weed Snickerdoodles?
From the way they tweeted it, you would think that Washington, D.C., police had nabbed Pablo Escobar himself. On Saturday, D.C. cops raided a downtown bar, seizing more than 25 pounds of pot and marijuana edibles, which had been set up on vendor tables. Police arrested 22 people in the bust, which went down at…
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We Need to Talk About How Schools Handle Racist Harassment Against Students
Just how many times must a student tell you that your school has a race problem before you believe her? Earlier this month, a senior at Elk Grove High School came forward to the Sacramento Bee about experiencing repeated racial harassment at her high school. The school had recently garnered national attention because one of…
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Citing Trump’s Own Racist Words, NAACP LDF Files Suit Against Homeland Security for Revoking Protections of Haitian Immigrants
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a discrimination lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security for rescinding the Temporary Protected Status of nearly 60,000 Haitian immigrants. According to an LDF press release, the suit alleges that the 2017 decision to remove the TPS of tens of thousands of Haitians displaced by the…
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Russell Simmons ‘Treats Animals Better Than Women’: Hip-Hop Mogul Hit With Lawsuit Over Alleged Rape
A documentary filmmaker has come forward alleging that Russell Simmons, after agreeing to finance and co-produce her film on women’s empowerment, raped her. Jennifer Jarosik filed a lawsuit against the hip-hop mogul Wednesday. She’s seeking $5 million in damages from Simmons—a number her lawyer estimates is about 1 percent of Simmons’ net worth, according to…
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‘She Ready’ for HBO: Tiffany Haddish Signs Deal With Premium Cable Outlet to Develop New Projects
HBO just gave you another reason not to let go of your ex’s HBO Go password to keep tuning in once #DemThrones goes off the air. As Variety reports, actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish has penned a two-year, first-look deal with HBO, where she will develop new projects for the premium cable outlet. Haddish is…
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1 Twin Born to a Gay Couple Was Granted Citizenship. The Other Was Not—and the Reason Is Expectedly Trash
I wasn’t born in this country. In fact, I didn’t live in it until I was 9 years old, arriving in Northern Virginia on the cusp of the fifth grade, excited about American TV and the prospect of seeing my first snowfall. While I still spoke with a Filipino accent, my citizenship was never in…
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