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  • Black Excellence Is Not Crazy: Viral Video Shows Richard Williams Creating Black Superheroes

    At the start of the 2018 U.S. Open, Nike debuted a video of Richard Williams coaching his then 9-year-old daughter Serena Williams. The commercial juxtaposes the images of Richard crouched next to a tiny Serena as he says, “This is you in the U.S. Open.” The future icon bounces the ball and breathes before her…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 30, 2018
  • Even in Death, John McCain Is Petty AF

    Depending on how you view him, Sen. John McCain was either a maverick of the right who was willing to cross party lines to stand up for what he believed or he was the Arizona senator who voted against making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday. But no matter what you think of…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 30, 2018
  • Trump Claims China Hacked Hillary Clinton's Email, the FBI Determines That Is a Lie (Maury Voice)

    On Wednesday, some time between the president’s morning ritual of slaughtering a baby goat so he can use the blood to moisturize his scalp, and typing on his iPad that he affectionately calls the “flat one”, the president tweeted yet another mistruth from his presidential Twitter account. According to the New York Daily News, Trump…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 29, 2018
  • LeBron James Had to Learn to Like White People

    LeBron James’ frank conversation with equally successful and talented friends, is the premises for his new show, The Shop, which debuted on HBO on Tuesday night, and it was a refreshingly unfiltered look at race, the burden of celebrity, what it takes to continue to compete at a high level, and the struggles of parenting.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 29, 2018
  • Black-ish Writer and Super Bowl Champ Charged With Insider Trading

    Mychal Kendricks, the former Philadelphia Eagles linebacker currently playing for the Cleveland Browns, was involved in insider trading, using tips given to him by Damilare Sonoiki, a television writer for Black-ish, according to federal prosecutors who charged both men. They could be looking at a substantial amount of prison time if convicted. According to ESPN,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 29, 2018
  • Well That Didn't Take Long: GOP Opponent Warns Florida Not to 'Monkey This Up' by Voting for Andrew Gillum in Governor's Race

    Less than 24 hours after Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum’s historic win in becoming the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, his opponent and Trump favorite, Ron DeSantis, is already pulling out the racist bullhorn to rile up deplorable Floridians. During a segment on Trump’s personal YouTube station, Fox News, DeSantis, the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 6th…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 29, 2018
  • Biographer: Mike Pence Believes God Wants Him to Be President

    Vice President Mike Pence, leader of America’s push for a space force, believes that God is calling him to be president. That’s right, the resident space cadet in the Oval Office not named Trump believes that God is “calling him” to “function as a president-in-waiting,” according to Michael D’Antonio, a CNN contributor and biographer of…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 28, 2018
  • Trump's Favorite Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Refuses to Call John McCain a Hero

    Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio—the sheriff who was so racist that he was convicted of criminal contempt of court because he couldn’t stop being racist and later pardoned by the president because he considered the former sheriff’s racism a part of his job—refused to call Arizona Sen. John McCain a hero because he finds his…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 28, 2018
  • Auntie Maxine's GOP Opponent to Speak With FBI After Tweeting Most Racist Fake Letter Ever

    Although I have always believed there is no such thing as kinda pregnant, an intermediate Spades player or someone who a little bit racist, there are indeed levels of racism. If there was a scale on which you could measure bigotry, the racism threat meter’s colors would range from some-of-my-best-friends-are white to Make-America-Great-Again red. And…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 28, 2018
  • Trump Googled Himself This Morning and Got Sad. Now the White House Is Looking Into Regulating the Search Engine

    The president of people who walk their children on a leash is a self-absorbed, narcissistic, ego-maniac who can’t stop talking about himself and the believed war against his presidency. On Tuesday, the president was up earlier looking at combover tutorials and tiki torch reviews on YouTube when he decided to Google himself. Naturally, he didn’t…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 28, 2018
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