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  • The Bizarre Case of Meek Mill’s Incarceration, Explained

    Let me make this clear: I’m not team #FreeMeekMill, but I am team #FreeRobertRihmeekWilliams. There is a difference. Meek Mill is a highly touted street dude-turned-rapper from Philly. Robert Rihmeek Williams is a Philadelphia man who many believe has been wrongly incarcerated by an overzealous judge who is using her influence and judicial power to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 6, 2017
  • With Trump’s Endorsement, the Republican National Committee Is Sending Funds to an Accused Pedophile

    Now that the president has come out and given his full endorsement to accused pedophile, and Alabama GOP Senate candidate, Roy Moore, the Republican National Committee is sending funds to help Moore’s campaign efforts in a closely contested race that will be decided next week. “The RNC is the political arm of the president and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 5, 2017
  • LaVar Ball Is Out of His Mind: He’s Sent Sneakers to Trump and He May Have Just Ruined LiAngelo’s Career

    LaVar Ball may have really done it now. On Monday the senior-most Ball announced that he was pulling his middle son, LiAngelo, from UCLA. Big Ball was upset that the school had placed his son and two other students—Cody Riley and Jalen Hill—on indefinite suspension after the three student-athletes were caught shoplifting in China. “I’m…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 5, 2017
  • Donald Trump Would Rather Have Old-Ass Orrin Hatch Run Again Than Have Mitt Romney on the Senate: Report

    President Donald Trump would rather have Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who went to elementary school back when children wrote on papyrus using fossil bones, than have former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney take over his seat. According to Politico, Trump is reportedly courting the 83-year-old seven-term senator to run one more time to block Romney,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 4, 2017
  • While the NFL Is Losing Viewership, Colin Kaepernick Is Living His Best Life

    On Sunday, free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick was honored at the ACLU of Southern California’s annual Bill of Rights Dinner, where he accepted the Eason Monroe Courageous Advocate Award to a standing ovation. “We all have an obligation no matter the risk, and regardless of reward, to stand up for our fellow men and women who…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 4, 2017
  • President Pussy Grabber Endorses Accused Pedophile for Congress

    Well, there you have it, folks: The sexual predator in chief isn’t playing coy anymore and has full-on endorsed an accused pedophile who’s running for the Senate from Alabama. Because nothing says “Donald Trump” like ignoring a proposed history of shameful acts to benefit the greater movement of complete and utter domination by the 1…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 4, 2017
  • Billy Bush to Trump: Bitch, You Know That’s You Saying, ‘Grab ’Em by the Pussy’

    Did you really think that former Access Hollywood anchor Billy Bush was going to lose his job for being a laughing co-signer of Donald Trump’s “grab ’em by the pussy” comments and let the now-president get away with trying to act like he didn’t say it? Of course not. Ol’ Billy is out here snitching…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 4, 2017
  • New Book Reveals That Trump’s a Garbage Person Prone to Screaming Fits and His Diet Is Trash

    Donald Trump’s fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and top aide David Bossie have pulled the lid off the president’s trashy-ass life to reveal that he eats like a high school sophomore whose parents work three jobs and are unable to care for him properly. In Lewandowski and Bossie’s new book, titled Let Trump Be Trump,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 4, 2017
  • Texas Republican Used $84,000 of Taxpayer Funds to Settle Sexual Harassment Claim: Report

    A Texas republican used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment charge issued by a former staffer, and now that republican is being named. U.S. Rep Blake Farenthold took some $84,000 of taxpayer money to payoff Lauren Greene, a former Farenthold staffer, Politico reports. Farenthold, has served in the House since 2011 and according to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 1, 2017
  • Turns Out the Nearly $90,000,000 Donation to Prove the NFL Cares About Social Justice Is Bullshit

    On Thursday, The Root staff writer Michael Harriot and I argued as to whether the agreement reached between NFL owners to donate some $90 million to various social justice causes as an answer to players’ protests was good business or just hush money to silence a movement. I posited that protest had sprouted a monetary…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 1, 2017
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