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No Surprises in Uber’s 1st Diversity Report: Tech Company Is Mostly White and Male but Promises to Work on That
Uber is a tech company, and like most tech companies, it’s mostly white and mostly male. This is what the transportation-network company’s first diversity report reveals, in news that is perhaps shocking to none. The report, which was released on the company’s website Tuesday afternoon, shows pretty much what anyone would expect, except perhaps, in…
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Rihanna to Be Honored at Parsons School of Design Benefit
Rihanna is once again being celebrated. This time she’s set to be honored May 22 at this year’s 69th Parsons Benefit, for the Parsons School of Design, alongside other big names, like designer Eileen Fisher and Neiman Marcus. It’s pretty much accepted by everyone that RiRi is a fashion icon, known for her eclectic taste…
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White Supremacist Charged With Murder as Terrorism in Fatal Stabbing of Timothy Caughman
James Harris Jackson, a white supremacist who told investigators that he came to New York to kill black people, is now facing terrorism-related murder charges in the fatal stabbing of Timothy Caughman, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced Monday. In total, Harris is now charged with murder as an act of terrorism in…
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Poor Thomas: Dad Uses Signs at NBA Games to Troll Son Over Grades
Anybody who grew up in a black household knows that grades reign supreme. You cannot come into your parents’ (or grandparents’, or auntie’s or whomever’s) house with no fool-ass grades. That is not how the program works. It seems that one kid, named Thomas, is being freshly indoctrinated into the culture, and his dad is…
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I’m Not Sure What’s Going On, but I Think Actress Mindy Kaling and Sen. Cory Booker Are Going on a Date?
I’m really confused right now, but I’m just going with it and writing this piece anyway. As it turns out, actress Mindy Kaling and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) may have a dinner date coming up after a strangely flirtatious Twitter exchange about the actress’s show. In a recent episode of The Mindy Project, Kaling’s character…
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Texas Teen Ebony Banks, Who Was Battling Cancer, Dies 4 Days After Meeting Beyoncé
Ebony Banks, a Texas teenager who was fighting stage 4 cancer, died Sunday, just four days after being able to meet with her idol, superstar Beyoncé Knowles. Ebony was undergoing treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston when she died, KHOU reports. The Alief Independent School District of Houston released the news of her…
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Wife of Chicago Cop Charged in Death of Laquan McDonald Says Job Offer Pulled Because of Case
The wife of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke says that a job offer for her to become a Cook County sheriff’s deputy was abruptly pulled because of her husband’s controversial case. According to the Chicago Tribune, Tiffany Van Dyke was set to begin training last week as a deputy after finishing a year of…
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White Supremacist Who Stabbed Black Man to Death Regrets Victim Wasn’t ‘Young Thug’ or ‘Successful Older Black Man’
The self-proclaimed white supremacist charged with fatally stabbing a New York City man to death last week voiced regret that the victim was not a young black man, or else a more successful older black man. The New York Daily News secured an exclusive Rikers Island jail interview with 28-year-old James Harris Jackson, who is accused of…
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Tomi Lahren Permanently Banned From TheBlaze: Report
Well, in a stunning twist of irony, it turns out that conservatives won’t stand for Tomi Lahren being pro-choice or calling them out for being hypocrites on abortion laws. Just who exactly are the real snowflakes? According to the New York Post’s Page Six, the former conservative sweetheart is now permanently banned from Glenn Beck’s…
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Killing of Black Man by Self-Proclaimed White Supremacist in NYC ‘Most Likely an Act of Terrorism’: Prosecutor
Prosecutors in New York City are saying that the targeted killing of a black man in midtown Manhattan was most likely an act of terrorism after, they charge, self-proclaimed white supremacist James Harris Jackson, 28, stabbed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman to death. WABC reports that Jackson, from Maryland, was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday and…
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