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An Incomplete List of the Names We Used Instead of ‘President Donald Trump’
A year ago today, Nov. 8, a bloated, orange-colored meat sack topped with the world’s worst comb-over became leader of the free world, aka president of the United States. This past year has been a living nightmare as we’ve watched the Trump administration’s all-too-predictable descent into chaos and dumb-fuckery. Every day, Donald Trump found new…
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Snowflake Mike Pence Flees Colts-49ers Game After Players Kneel During the National Anthem
Updated Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, 3:11 p.m. EDT: President Asshat himself said on Twitter that he ordered Mike Pence to leave the game if players took a knee during the national anthem. Earlier: Vice President Mike Pence, who once whined that there was “far too much of this talk of institutional bias or racism within…
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SNL’s Michael Che Calls Trump a ‘Bitch’ and a ‘Cheap Cracker’; Jay-Z Sports Kaepernick Jersey During Performance
I’ll be the first to admit that even a Jay-Z appearance couldn’t get me to watch Saturday Night Live. I, like everyone else, wait for the video clips to drop on Sunday. But apparently, things got a little turnt during the show’s 43rd-season premiere. First, Weekend Update’s Michael Che went all the way in on President…
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Can an All-Boys, Afrocentric Education Close the Achievement Gap?
“I am the pink flower” is not the kind of thing a ninth-grade boy usually says with a straight face, especially not in a room filled with other teenage boys. But the young men in Schalette Gudger’s English class at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School, a new all-boys public school in Washington, D.C., were…
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Comedian and Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory Dead at 84
Comedian Dick Gregory—who attacked racism through a biting and satirical style of comedy, and was equally well-known for his civil rights activism and advocacy of an austere health regimen—died Saturday, Aug. 19, at the age of 84. Gregory’s family confirmed his death with a post on Instagram. Born Oct. 12, 1932, in St. Louis, Gregory…
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Girls Trip Hits $100,000,000 at Box Office, Proving Yet Again That Hollywood Should Always Bet on Black
Girls Trip, the breakout hit of the summer, has crossed the $100 million mark at the box office, proving, yet again, that movies for and by black people can put asses in theater seats. The comedy—starring Jada Pinkett Smith (black), Queen Latifah (black), Tiffany Haddish (black) and Regina Hall (black); directed by Malcolm D. Lee…
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Why All Confederate Statues Must Fall
Following the horrific events in Charlottesville, Va., where one woman was killed during a white supremacist rally to save a statue of Robert E. Lee, cities across the country are moving swiftly to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces. Even citizen protesters in Durham, N.C., took matters into their own hands to remove a Confederate…
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Charlottesville, Va., Is About Choosing Who We Want to Be as a Nation
A year ago I went to visit the farm, located east of Charlottesville, Va., where my grandmother’s grandfather Phil was born enslaved to the Parrish family. Phil (born in 1852); his mother, Rachel (1828); and his wife, Susan (1860), were in this country when most white Americans’ ancestors were still in Europe, but they weren’t…
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How a Lack of Access to Healthy Food May Destroy Your Mind as Well as Your Body
It is widely known that a lack of access to fresh, healthy foods can contribute to poor diets and higher levels of diet-related diseases. In the case of brain health, we know that everyone who has a brain is at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, with the greatest risk factors being aging and genetics. But…
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Nelsan Ellis, True Blood’s Lafayette, Dies at 39
Nelsan Ellis, who played the outspoken and gay short-order cook Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s True Blood, has died after complications due to heart failure. He was 39. According to the Hollywood Reporter, his manager, Emily Gerson Saines, delivered the news. “He was a great talent, and his words and presence will be forever missed,” she…
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