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Mike Pence's Closest Staffers Are Testing Positive for COVID-19, But the VP Has No Plans to Quarantine
About five members of Vice President Mike Pence’s inner team now have coronavirus, a troubling outbreak that nonetheless seems not to have thwarted Pence’s plans to travel across the country campaigning in the coming days. The first case reported this weekend was that of the Vice President’s Chief of Staff, Marc Short, who a spokesperson…
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Offset Pulled Out of His Car By Police After Trump Supporters Marching in Beverly Hills Call Cops on Him
Cardi B and her on-again-off-again boo Offset were caught in the midst of rally of Trump supporters on the streets of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles on Saturday, and the confluence of the two groups ended with cops pulling Offset out of his car and detaining him, on the complaint of someone on the street.…
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Little Fires Everywhere Star Lexi Underwood Cast as Princess of New Disney Hip-Hop Cinderella Film Sneakerella
Lexi Underwood, the impressive newcomer who delivered her own acting performance to remember next to Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon’s masterful ones in Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere, is the latest young Black star to be tapped by Disney to play a modern-day princess. Underwood will star in an upcoming pop/hip-hop movie adaptation of Cinderella from…
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ICE Is Reportedly Torturing Detained African Immigrants To Force Deportations Ahead of Election
On the heels of the last presidential debate—in which Trump flippantly dismissed his administration’s cruel and inhumane decision to separate immigrant children from their parents for the crime of being non-white and seeking asylum in America—there are now reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are torturing detained immigrants from Cameroon as part of…
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza Was Potential Target of Armed White Supremacist Nabbed by FBI
As we get closer to Election Day, more reports of planned, executed, and nearly-executed violence at the hands of white supremacists keep barrelling in. Deeply insecure white people with weapons have been targeting everyone from Black church-goers and the governor of Michigan, to even their police enablers in Minneapolis. Now news has come that these…
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Dwayne Wade, Cedric the Entertainer, Wayne Brady, and Lala Milan to Feature in Next 'Zoom Where It Happens' Directed By Sanaa Lathan
The next episode of “Zoom Where it Happens,” the online live table reading series launched by Black women to entertain viewers and encourage them to vote this year, will feature Black entertainers from the fields of sports and comedy portraying characters from the iconic Black sitcom Sanford and Son. Award-winning actress Sanaa Lathan will direct…
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Trump Delivers Campaign Speech From the White House to a Crowd of 'Blexit' Supporters Paid for by Candace Owen
The President has returned to his campaigning activities despite his coronavirus diagnosis, delivering a speech from the White House on Saturday in which he called on the surprising number of Black and Latino people in attendance to vote Democrats “into oblivion.” At the event, billed by the White House as a protest for law and…
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Judge Changes Derek Chauvin's Bail Conditions, Allowing Him to Leave Minnesota for His 'Safety' While Awaiting Trial for George Floyd's Killing
The presiding judge in the criminal case facing Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer captured on camera kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes–ultimately killing him—has adjusted the terms of Chauvin’s recently posted bail so the defendant can leave Minnesota and live in another state. Judge Peter Cahill made the updated court…
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Mellody Hobson's Name Will Replace Woodrow Wilson's on Residential Building at Princeton, the First to Be Named for a Black Woman
Philanthropist and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson, has gifted her alma mater Princeton University with a major donation to construct a new residential college on the site of one previously named after Woodrow Wilson. This summer, the school’s Board of Trustees voted to remove Wilson’s name from the School of Public and International Affairs…
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What is Lindsay Graham Hiding? S.C. Senator Refuses to Test for COVID-19 Ahead of Debate With Challenger Jamie Harrison, Raising Suspicions
If you were browsing Twitter on Friday, you may have noticed that #LindsayGrahamHasCOVID was trending. But you’d be wrong to assume that means we know anything definitively about the Republican senator’s health status as it pertains to coronavirus. The hashtag itself was prompted by the fact that earlier that day, Graham outright refused to undergo…
