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Rep. John Conyers Steps Down Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations; Double Standards Win Again
After days of speculation, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has decided to retire effective immediately, an announcement that he made live on The Mildred Gaddis Show in Detroit on Tuesday. Conyers insists that he is retiring because of his doctor’s advice that the 88-year-old—the longest-serving member of Congress—cannot handle the rigors of another campaign. According to…
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Cleveland Finds Out This Week if It Made History by Electing 1st Muslim to City Council
It is strange to still hear about political “firsts” in 2017. The immediate reaction is often, “How did it take this long for [fill-in-the-blank] to happen?” Last month’s elections created about half-a-dozen significant political firsts in municipal and statewide elections that ranged from totally unexpected to “Wait, that just happened for the first time?” A…
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How Obama’s ‘Worst Mistake’ Led to the Libyan Slave Trade
When CNN broke the story several weeks ago that slavery—not wage slavery, not emotional slavery, not virtual slavery, but actual whips-and-chains-forced labor slavery—was alive and well in the North African nation of Libya, Americans finally started to take notice. Sort of. While there has been some reporting on the issue and a few statements from…
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Et Tu, Ceasar? Ceasar Mitchell’s Endorsement of White Mayoral Candidate Could End Black Power in Atlanta
The story of Julius Caesar is the ancient tale of former close political friendships gone bad. Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus formed the triumvirate whose #SquadGoals were to expand the Roman empire and rule the world. Unfortunately, Caesar became more powerful than his partners and began running Rome like an empire,…
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A Simple Explanation for Why Alabama’s Roy Moore Will Get Elected to the Senate
Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore of Alabama has been accused of crimes that, in a more decent and responsible county, would make him ineligible to apply for a job as a peep show janitor, let alone run for U.S. Senate. According to accounts by several women both in the Washington Post and in public statements,…
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Justice League Is Trash and a Desperate Money Grab, but You’re Still Going to See It
The universe was giving me every sign that Justice League was going to be trash. I asked four friends, who usually love going to the movies, to go to the Justice League screening and the collective answers were “I’ve got Bible study,” “I’m mentoring” and “I’m sleeping,” until finally someone said, “I guess, since the…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks Race, Trump and What’s Really Scary About America
Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of those people who always have something smart to say, because he’s actually really, really smart. Whether he’s reminding Americans that they elected the first white president or providing the cheat code for white liberals to explain to their kinfolk why they can’t say “nigger,” Coates is both quotable and relatable,…
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Atlanta Mayoral Race Might Be the One Bright Spot for Republicans After Tuesday Night
The Atlanta mayoral race was contentious and expensive and pitted just about every element of the city’s political class against one another. You had candidates with celebrity endorsements, candidates busted for getting Falcons tickets, two gay candidates and one who looked like an extra from Magic Mike. The runoff in December will be between the…
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Thor: Ragnarok: This Time the Magical Negroes Have Swords
At this point in America, there are two types of people: those who enjoy the nearly decadelong series of Marvel Avengers movies … and deplorables. That’s about it. If you don’t like these movies by now, you’re probably a deplorable who hates everything coming out of Hollywood or you just hate superhero movies because you…
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Va. Governor’s Race: Conservatives Shed White Tears After Political Ad Calls Out Ed Gillespie’s Racist Ads
Racist campaign commercials are so pervasive that they hardly get heavy news coverage anymore. Everyone harks back to the classic Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign, as if that were the last time a conservative politician’s racial demagoguery blatantly hit the airwaves for 30 seconds. You don’t have to go back 30 years…
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