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BET Plus, a New Streaming-Video Service for All Things Black From BET and Tyler Perry, Announces Start Date
BET+, a new streaming-video service created through a partnership between BET and Tyler Perry, is set to bring all things black to subscribers’ viewing screens beginning Sept. 19. For $9.99 per month, subscribers will be able to access all manner of black content, Deadline reports, with a focus on new and original content from a…
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Homeless Crisis in Los Angeles Highlights the Fall of the Black Middle Class
Blacks make up just 9 percent of Los Angeles County’s population overall, but comprise 40 percent of the area’s homeless, pushed to the margins by decades of redlining, layoffs, mass incarceration and gentrification. Among the homeless population, two-thirds live outside, some in whole tent communities filled with close-knit bands of men and women, according to…
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Commerce Secretary Said to Have Threatened to Have Heads Roll if Weather Service Didn’t Back Trump on Alabama’s Dorian Risk
In the latest fallout from Sharpiegate, the push to convince the American people that its wannabe emperor Donald Trump wears clothes, er, was correct, when he put Alabama in the path of Hurricane Dorian, went as far as threats of pink slips from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. That’s according to the New York Times, which…
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Trump Plan for Home Loans Stokes Fears of Higher Mortgage Rates for Would-Be Homebuyers
Housing advocates fear a Trump administration plan to return federal mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the private sector will increase the cost of house loans and make it harder for low-income and disadvantaged communities to buy homes. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the government-controlled companies that help provide money for the…
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Parents Sue Minnesota School District Saying It Did Nothing to Protect Their Kids From Rampant Racism
A group of parents have hit their almost lily-white school district with a civil rights lawsuit, charging it turned a blind eye to rampant instances of egregious racist abuse and bullying of their children. According to the Daily Beast, the abusive behavior alleged includes: a 6-year-old black child being punched in the face by a…
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South African Politician Calls on Mobs to Direct Their Anger at Ruling-Class Whites Instead of Other Africans
The leader of a South African opposition party is making waves for calling on mobs to turn their anger over continued economic disenfranchisement on the country’s wealthy white minority as opposed to foreign African nationals. Johannesburg has been plagued of late by mob violence targeting businesses owned by foreigners from other African countries, Newsweek reports.…
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2 Ex-NYC Cops Get Probation for Having Sex With a Handcuffed Teenager They’d Just Arrested
Two former New York City cops slipped through a crack in New York law and now will serve just five months’ probation for having sex in the back of a police van with a handcuffed 18-year-old they’d just arrested on a marijuana charge. Prosecutors fought to have Eddie Martins, 39, and Richard Hall, 34, imprisoned…
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New Trump Policy Ends US Citizenship Rights to Children of Some Troops Stationed Overseas
The Trump administration set off a firestorm of fear Wednesday after it announced it was ending U.S. citizenship rights for the children of some U.S. service members and government employees serving overseas. According to the memo from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the policy that automatically granted citizenship to all children of U.S. military…
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Too Few Black and Latino Students Get Into NYC’s Gifted and Talented Programs, So NYC Considers Dumping the Programs
In an effort to end the underrepresentation of black and Latinx children in gifted and talented programs throughout New York City’s public schools, a mayoral advisory panel says the city should just get rid of the programs. A panel appointed by New York City Mayor and Democratic presidential hopeful Bill de Blasio is recommending ending…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar Accused of Being a Homewrecker in Explosive Divorce Filing by DC Doctor
A Washington, D.C., doctor is accusing Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar of being the reason her husband left her, in explosive divorce papers she filed in D.C. Superior Court. According to BuzzFeed, which credits the New York Post for first reporting on the filing, Dr. Beth Mynett said that as a result of her husband, political…
