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‘I Hope Trump Is Assassinated!’: Mo. State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal Investigated by Secret Service for Trump Facebook Post
It all started late Wednesday night after a long day of absorbing the same horrible racist news that the rest of America has been enduring. Nobody feels particularly safe or secure watching the president of the United States give a free hunting license to white nationalists, but it’s particularly hard for Maria Chappelle-Nadal, the state…
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How Do We Stop Hate in America? We Asked an Expert
Tony Harris is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, a veteran of CNN and Al-Jazeera, and the coolest uncle you always wish you had. Harris, a native of Baltimore, is the kind of guy that will go from regaling you with stories about world travel to lecturing you on treating your momma right, and then slip front-row…
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Hey, Jeff Sessions: Remember When 6,000 White Americans Went on Strike to Keep 8 Black People From Getting Promoted?
Over the past month, the Trump administration has been rolling out “theme weeks” as if America were one big dysfunctional high school and the homecoming game will fix everything. In July there was Made in America Week to highlight business; American Heroes Week highlighted the military; and to kick off August, the administration launched “White…
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The Real Reason the Ravens Are Afraid to Hire Kaepernick: He’s Mr. Steal-Your-Job
The good news is that Baltimore’s unemployment rate is a breathtakingly low 6.1 percent in August of 2017; the bad news is, there’s one job applicant who just can’t seem to get a break in Charm City: Colin Kaepernick. News broke this week that because starting quarterback Joe Flacco suffered a back injury, the Baltimore…
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HBO’s Confederate Will Be a Dumpster Fire. Here Are 3 Shows They Should’ve Made
Confederate, the new show by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, sounds like hot trash. Smelly, putrid, straight-from-the-piss-drenched-dumpsters-of-1980s-Times Square trash. While the concept isn’t finalized, Confederate will more or less be an alternative history in which the South won the Civil War (the first or the second; there are varying reports), slavery…
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Stop Calling John McCain a Hero for Flying to DC to Kill Other People’s Health Care
Today, John McCain is doing something “heroic” or “tough” or “badass,” according to a certain echo chamber of political pundits with short memories. After recently being diagnosed with brain cancer, one of a series of ailments that have plagued McCain over the years, he’s decided that today’s health care vote is so important that he…
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A Bold Sista: Move Over, Bernie Bros. Nina Turner Is the New Head of Sanders’ Our Revolution
Nina Turner is not hard to describe. She’s that other black woman on MSNBC and CNN talking about workers rights, fighting back and pushing for a progressive agenda, even during President Barack Obama’s administration. A former Ohio state senator and secretary of state candidate, she’s straight out of hardscrabble Cleveland, with the political scars to…
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7 Whole Years and Still No Health Care Plan From the GOP
You can do a lot in seven years if you really work at it. The world has seen a seven-year war; cicadas come out of the ground every seven years; Maxwell drops a new album about every seven years. In other words, a lot of global, amazing and world-altering things can be accomplished over seven…
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How Do You Get a Pay Cut on Your Day Off? St. Louis Politicians Fail Again on Minimum Wage
While just about everything else in life gets more expensive every year, the federal minimum wage has stubbornly stayed at $7.25 an hour since 2009. That was President Barack Obama’s first year in office, Borders Books was still a thing, movies cost only $7.50 and Rihanna was still dating Chris Brown. In other words, a…
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Did War for the Planet of the Apes Come for DeRay Mckesson or Did Hotep Twitter Go Too Far?
The Planet of the Apes movie series has always been racially problematic. Starting with the originals in the late 1960s and ’70s and extending to the reboots starting in 2011, the films have a sort of hackneyed white-liberal-pontificates-about-race element to them that is at times compelling and other times insulting. Apes, even superintelligent apes, as…
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