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Christmas Miracle or Trump's Final Fake Out? President Waits Until Last Minute to Hold Up Stimulus Checks With $2,000 Demand and Veto Threat
Just as Democrats and Republicans in Congress have finally agreed on how much (or rather, how little) stimulus money to throw to the American people, President Trump has emerged in his favorite role as head troll to play with our feelings all over again. In a video issued Tuesday night, the president implied he would…
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Kansas City Star Apologizes For Decades of Racially Biased Reporting
This year was marked by a movement towards racial reckoning in America, including a recognition of the historic injustices done towards Black people in this country via policing and also from a whole host of other institutions. Now another entity has stepped forward to acknowledge its role in perpetuating racial injustice. The Kansas City Star…
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Trump Is Reportedly Considering Using Martial Law to 'Rerun' the Election
Trump and his criminal cronies are escalating their ideas of how to deny the results of November’s election. With 31 days to go until President-elect Biden’s inauguration, the outgoing president is now reportedly considering instituting martial law to keep himself in power. Trump made the suggestion during a call with his senior campaign advisors on…
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Uh-Oh: The U.K. Has a New Strain of COVID-19 and Is in Lockdown Again
I can’t lie y’all—I’m sick and tired of the global nightmare that is the coronavirus, which is why I’m not one of the people who feels squeamish about taking a COVID-19 vaccine. But it sounds like coronavirus might not yet be sick of us. Scientists in the United Kingdom announced this weekend that a new…
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Family of Man Who Was in Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Say They Will Take COVID-19 Vaccine
The relatives of one of the men who were in the Tuskegee syphilis study say they will take the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they can get it. During the study, which researchers from the Public Health Service and Tuskegee Health Institute ran from 1932 to 1972, hundreds of Black men who were told they…
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Boston Cop Seen on Body-Cam Footage Bragging About Driving Into Protestors During Police Brutality Demonstrations
In the midst this year’s national protests against the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and numerous other Black Americans, video clips posted by reporters and other people on social media showed police across the country responding to the protests with violence that exhibited much of the brutality that had brought people out in…
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FDA Gives Authorization to Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, Allowing for Doses to Be Distributed Across Country
The Federal Drug Administration has authorized a second COVID-19 vaccine, opening the door for more people to receive doses against the virus which brought the country to a halt this year and continues to rack up deaths. On Friday, the FDA announced that it has issued emergency use authorization for a vaccine developed by Moderna,…
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Black Man Sues Kansas Sheriff's Deputy for Allegedly Running Over Him With a Patrol Truck
It sounds like something from a nightmare, but it’s what 35-year-old Lionel Womack is alleging he experienced in real life—a cop in Kansas deliberately driving a patrol truck over his body while chasing him through an open field. Womack, who used to be a former police officer, was pulled over during a late-night traffic stop…
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Imprisoned in Michigan for Nearly Four Decades, Walter Forbes Is Freed After Witness Recants Statement
Walter Forbes, a 63-year-old Black man in Michigan, is now free to spend the holidays with his family for the first time in over 37 years. Forbes was recently released from his decadeslong incarceration after the witness who helped imprison him recanted her original testimony this year and acknowledged it was a lie, due to…
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In First Decision of Its Kind, British Officials Rule That Air Pollution Was a Cause in the Death of 9-Year-Old Black Girl
A coroner’s court in the United Kingdom has ruled that air pollution was a cause of death in the case of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, an asthmatic 9-year-old girl who lived in southeast London and died in 2013. The landmark decision came on Wednesday and is the first time in the U.K. that a death certificate has…
