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  • LeBron James’ Destruction of the Cleveland Cavaliers Is Complete: Kyrie Irving Headed to Boston Celtics

    LeBron James has single-handedly destroyed the Cleveland Cavaliers’ franchise twice now. The first go-round was shortly after the team invested tons of money to try to build a franchise around him and he bolted to the Miami Heat. But the Cavaliers recovered, thanks to some draft luck and landing perennial All-Star Kyrie Irving; and then…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2017
  • Trump-Branded Hotel to Celebrate the Antebellum South—You Know, Back When Blacks Were Slaves

    A planned Cleveland, Miss., Trump-branded hotel will celebrate the antebellum South with a replica-style Southern plantation complete with a cotton-gin-styled meeting hall, because of course it would. The project, which will bear the Trump name, will cost some $20 million and will reportedly have “a resort-caliber pool, place decorative balconies on the main building, and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2017
  • Ga. Woman Fired Over Period Leaks: Report

    For nearly 10 years, Alisha Coleman worked as a 911 dispatcher for a facility that helps people with disabilities. Coleman claims that in 2016 she lost the job that she loved after experiencing symptoms associated with premenopause. Coleman has teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union after being abruptly let go by the Bobby…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2017
  • Steven Mnuchin’s Wife Gets Called Out for Flossin’ on the ’Gram and Has the Whitest Response Ever

    Actress Louise Linton, wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, got called out for being extra for the ’gram after she hashtagged her Valentino shoes and her Hermès scarf in a photo of herself and her deplorable stepping off Air Force One. And, like most white women spoiled and privileged, she took the opportunity to launch…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2017
  • 12 Cleveland Browns Players Took a Knee During the National Anthem and Colin Kaepernick Still Doesn’t Have a Job

    The protest started by Colin Kaepernick to bring awareness and concern to the killing of unarmed black men, women and children by police has continued even though the free agent quarterback still doesn’t have an NFL home. On Monday, before their game against the New York Giants, a dozen Cleveland Browns players took a knee…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2017
  • Well, What Do You Know? Turns Out the White Women Wearing ‘MAGA’ Hats Didn’t Just Wander Onto Howard’s Campus

    Anyone who lives in Washington, D.C., or has ever been to D.C. knows that one of the best things about the city is that we keep our monuments close. In fact, everyone who lives here already knows not to go anywhere near that traffic during the summer months because tourists are going to tour. So…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2017
  • Make It Last Forever (Keith Sweat Voice), Don’t Let Our War End: Afghanistan Edition

    President Donald Trump is becoming a master at the nonspeech speech, and nothing says nonspeech like Monday’s treatise on the 16-year war in Afghanistan. Every man who has ever been caught cheating has given a nonspeech. It works like this: Throw out tons of misdirection; offer some truth; admit some fault—usually not the fault that…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2017
  • Grassroots Ad Calls for Trump to Rid the White House of White Supremacists 

    Updated Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, 2:08 p.m. EDT: Hot on the news that White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been asked to return his White House lanyard, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a grassroots organization that wants to weed out white supremacy in the White House, has concluded that Bannon’s ouster is not enough.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 18, 2017
  • Did Chris Long’s Support of Malcolm Jenkins’ Protest Just Secure Him the No. 1 Pick in This Year’s Racial Draft?

    Since the beginning of the NFL season, Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcom Jenkins has been one of the few players this season to take up the mantle that current free agent Colin Kaepernick left behind. Jenkins has upheld Kaepernick’s silent protest against the killings of unarmed African-American men, women and children by raising his fist during…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 18, 2017
  • Kevin Durant on Possible White House Invite: Is Trump Still in Office? Nah, I’m Good (I’m Paraphrasing a Bit)

    If the White Nationalist House of Pancakes plans on inviting the championship Golden State Warriors to come and see where evil lives, then they can skip the e-vite for Kevin Durant because he ain’t going. “Nah, I won’t do that,” Durant said Thursday of a potential visit, according to ESPN’s Chris Haynes. “I don’t respect…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 18, 2017
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