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J. Kenneth Lee, Who Was Among the 1st Black Students to Attend UNC at Chapel Hill, Dead at 94
J. Kenneth Lee, one of four black students who joined a lawsuit that would ultimately lead to the desegregation of the University of North Carolina School of Law and who became one of the first black students to attend UNC at Chapel Hill, has passed away at the age of 94. Lee passed away last…
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A Whole North Carolina Police Force Has Been Suspended After Chief Charged With Corruption
All police operations in Southport, N.C. have been suspended after its police chief and another officer were arrested on charges of corruption. According to CBS17, the charges against Police Chief Gary Smith, 46, and Lt. Michael Christian Simmons, 48, stem from the law enforcement officers apparently working their second jobs while on the clock at…
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Imma Need Meghan Markle's Broke, Bitter Relatives to Pick a Struggle
By now we all know that Meghan Markle’s white relatives are broke, busted and bitter because Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is out here living her best, grandiose life with her real-life prince when they weren’t even invited to the wedding because they’re a bunch of messy bitches. Despite being effectively excommunicated because they refuse…
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Barack Obama Is Out Here Looking Like Our Favorite Uncle Jamming Out at the OTRII Concert in Washington, D.C.
So on Saturday night, Twitter lit up with videos of our favorite uncle, forever President Barack Obama, jamming it out during the D.C. leg of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II Tour. I was actually also there, but I ain’t got the kind of coint that supports seeing Beyoncé as well as the Obamas…
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Minneapolis Police Officers Will Not Face Criminal Charges After Gunning Down Fleeing Black Man [Updated]
Updated: Monday, July 30, 2018; 2:02 p.m. EDT: Surprising absolutely no one, the Minneapolis police officers who gunned down a fleeing black man back in June will not be charged in his death. On Sunday, body camera footage of the fatal shooting of Thurman Blevins was released, showing officers repeatedly threatening to shoot Blevins if…
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Will Austin, Texas Get a New Name? A Local Report on Confederate Monuments Suggests Renaming City
Stephen F. Austin, known also as the “father of Texas” is often credited with carving out the early outlines of Texas, so perhaps it is apt that the capital of the Lone Star state is named after him. Except, hold that thought. Or at least that’s what Austin’s Equity Office wants you to do after…
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Black Lives Matter to Counter Protest 'White Civil Rights Rally' in DC
The Washington D.C. chapter of Black Lives Matter is planning to counter protest the stupidly-named “White Civil Rights Rally” scheduled to be held near the White House at Lafayette Park on Aug. 12, which is also the anniversary of the deadly white supremacist rally that was held in Charlottesville, Va. According to Fox5DC, Shut It…
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Blue Ivy is Only 6 Years Old, But She's Still My Life Goal
I have been on this planet for 2+ decades longer than Blue Ivy Carter, but I still look up to her and see her as a whole ass entire mood. The young icon recently wrapped up summer vacation and the On The Run Tour II with her parents, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, and her younger siblings…
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White Driver Follows Black Man to His House, Calls Him the N-Word in Road Rage Incident
An Ohio state contractor, drowning in economic anxiety and outrage after he thought he had been cut off, actually took it upon himself to follow a black man to his home, pull up at the man’s driveway and call him a “nigger,” repeatedly. What in the entire nonsense is this? The video starts with the…
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Oregon Student Disciplined for Wearing Pro-Border Wall Shirt to School Wins $25,000 Settlement
A Hillsboro, Ore., high school senior who was suspended for wearing a pro-Trump, pro-border wall T-shirt to school has won a $25,000 settlement from his school. Addison Barnes originally wore the shirt, which read “Donald J Trump Border Wall Construction Co: ‘The Wall Just Got 10 Feet Taller’” to his People and Politics class at…
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