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Activist Patrisse Cullors Delivers Final Rallying Cry to Black Voters: 'Add to the Power We Built in the Streets'
Election Day is finally here, after a historic early voting period that has seen record numbers of voters turning up across the country to make their voices heard at the ballot box. But although we are many decades removed from the Jim Crow laws that formally barred Black voters from voting, ghosts of the past…
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2 Poll Challengers in Detroit Escorted Out After Using Racist Language, Refusing to Wear Masks Properly
Two poll challengers—one wearing a Halloween mask, the other refusing to wear her face mask properly—were kicked out of a Detroit polling station on Monday as workers began processing absentee ballots from the city. As the Detroit Free Press reports, a man wearing an all-white horror-movie mask with poll challenger credentials began making a scene…
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Dave Chappelle Will Return to Host SNL Post-Election Day in Reprise of 2016
At least one part of this week’s election whirlwind will feel like déjà vu: Comedian Dave Chappelle is returning to the SNL stage again this weekend, taking the helm of the show post-Election Day just as he did in 2016. Chappelle’s opening monologue is expected to set the mood for the show. In 2016, after…
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T.I. Just Gave Some Wildly Stupid Advice About How to Beat COVID
Now more than ever, some dudes need to be reminded that shutting the hell up is not only free but a wonderful exercise—particularly if you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Such is the case with rapper and professional dubious advice-giver Clifford Harris Jr., also known as T.I. In an interview clip shared by…
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Don-Dada Lemon Talks Cutting Trump-Supporting Friends Out of His Life: ‘They’re Too Far Gone’
The last four years have given us disaster after disaster: unprecedented natural calamity, worsening racial tensions, the rise of right-wing militias and terrorism, a global pandemic—just to name a few. Through all this, CNN viewers have also witnessed the radicalization of anchor Don Lemon, who under the Trump administration has gotten notably spicier, particularly when…
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Louisville Police Officer Who Raided Breonna Taylor’s Apartment Sues Boyfriend Kenneth Walker for Emotional Distress, Assault
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, the Louisville Metro police officer who earlier this month claimed that the cops’ biggest mistake the night they barged into Breonna Taylor’s home was not going in sooner, is suing Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker for “severe trauma, mental anguish, and emotional distress” he experienced as a result of Walker’s actions that night.…
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The Incarcerated Are Eligible for Stimulus Checks. Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Danny Davis Want to Know Why the Bureau of Prisons Is Blocking Them
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the United States Congress has given only one stimulus check to help Americans weather the public health crisis and its ensuing economic downturn. For many households, that $1,200 check has long since been spent, as months of political discussions about a second stimulus bill dead-ended with the president and Senate Majority…
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You Gotta Wait ‘Just a Little Bit’: Jennifer Hudson’s Aretha Franklin Biopic Respect Pushed Back to August 2021
2020 is ending without any Respect. The Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson was originally slated to premiere in August this year, then got pushed back to a limited release this Christmas, with a wider release come Jan. 15, 2021. That date has now been pushed back again, with the MGM-produced Respect not hitting theaters…
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Chadwick Boseman’s Brother Kevin Celebrates 2 Years of Cancer Remission: ‘I Hope You’re Smiling and Shouting With Me’
In a year defined by grief, dancer Kevin Boseman, one of late actor Chadwick Boseman’s older brothers, took a moment to celebrate an important milestone: two years without cancer. In an Instagram story first published on Oct. 14, and later shared by The Shade Room, Kevin noted that the day marked his two-year remission anniversary.…
