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  • Yung Joc Is Officially Hair Goals—Or, He Should Be

    Straight black men, we need to talk about Yung Joc’s hair. Unless you’ve been on another planet beneath a rock with your hands over your eyes, you’ve likely seen the former Bad Boy rapper’s increasing love for colorful, daring haircuts. Beginning with a (fairly bad) perm in 2016, Joc’s hair journey has taken nearly as…

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  • Famous Dex Superfan Gets Probation for Attempted Plane Theft

    Who among us hasn’t gone to great lengths to see our faves in concert? In 2007, at the tender age of 19, a young Ibn was in need of a few hundred dollars to see the Glow in the Dark tour’s lone stop in Massachusetts. As a college freshman with a part-time job as a…

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  • New Orleans Rapper C-Murder Denied Retrial Despite Recantations by Two Witnesses

    According to Associated Press, No Limit Record rapper C-Murder, born Corey Miller, has been denied a retrial in connection to his conviction for the murder of 16-year-old fan Steve Thomas at a nightclub. Miller, the younger sibling of rapper Master P, is currently serving a life sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola after…

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  • Penguin Random House Announces Closure of Publisher Spiegel & Grau

    Penguin Random House announced their decision to shutter publishing imprint Spiegel & Grau, best town for its best-selling works on nonfiction. The move comes as another part of the effort to streamline Penguin Random House following the merger 2013 between publishing titans Penguin and Random House. Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau, the imprint’s co-founders, will…

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  • White House Squatter Mulls Fake National Emergency to Secure Border Wall Funds

    The current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., is preparing to falsify a national emergency along the southern border in order to bypass Congress’ refusal to fund his steel-slatted fever dream. After being put in his place again (and again) by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi over his plans to carry on…

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  • New York City Settles With Family of Kalief Browder for $3.3 Million

    New York City will pay $3.3 million to the family of Kalief Browder, a Bronx native whose unlawful imprisonment on Rikers Island became the subject of national headlines and a critically acclaimed documentary. Browder, accused of stealing a backpack which contained cash and an iPod, was detained and held on Rikers Island for three years,…

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  • Mitch McConnell's Slow and Steady Pace Avoids Run-in with Furloughed Government Employees

    Frustrated with Senate Majority Leader and Turtle Club President Emeritus Mitch McConnell, furloughed federal employees gave the Kentucky senator a piece of their mind. McConnell, sensing the commotion from just beyond his heating lamp, wasn’t around to see it. After waiting in vain for McConnell to use his considerable power and influence to end the…

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  • Sheila Jackson Lee Leaves Judiciary Committee After Former Staffer Alleges She Was Fired for Reporting Sexual Assault

    Longtime Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee has announced plans to resign as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus’ nonprofit operation, after she was named in a lawsuit alleging she fired a young woman who planned to press charges after an alleged sexual assault by a former Congressional Black Congress Foundation employee. Jackson Lee also vacated…

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  • CNN and Jake Tapper Neglect to Disclose Connections to PR Firm Behind Nick Sandmann’s Statement, Signal Boost It Anyway

    Desperate to escape its status as an also-ran among its news broadcast peers, CNN has decided to coddle the bigots among us. While this might seem like a typical day for CNN, this incident seems…different. Nick Sandmann, the wide-mouthed Covington Catholic high school student seen blocking native Vietnam veteran Nathan Phillips during a Washington D.C.…

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  • Trump's Wall Tantrum Has the FBI Strapped for Cash

    Seemingly lost in the circus surrounding the partial government shutdown, now into the early days of its second month, has been its impact on national security. Trump, while holding out for his $5.7 billion border blinders, has halted the day-to-day operations of the agencies and individuals that protect American lives and interests beyond the proposed…

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