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Breonna Taylor's Family Says Louisville Police Gave Her No Aid Though She Was Still Alive After Shooting
An updated lawsuit from Breonna Taylor’s family alleges that the 26-year-old was alive for several minutes after being shot multiple times by Louisville police officers in her home in March, but was given no assistance by the cops who had entered her home on a “no-knock” search warrant and subsequently killed her. In a revised…
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Megan Thee Stallion Calls Out Jokes About Her Shooting, Says She Is 'Real Life Hurt and Traumatized'
While Megan Thee Stallion is still recovering from multiple gunshot wounds, corners of the internet have responded by making light of what happened to her. Twitter has abounded with memes about the shooting incident that took place in the hills of Hollywood last weekend, putting Megan in hospital and R&B singer Tory Lanez in jail…
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Tamar Braxton Hospitalized After Being Found Unresponsive in Los Angeles
Singer and TV personality Tamar Braxton is in hospital after being reportedly found unconscious at the Ritz-Carlton in Los Angeles on Thursday night. E! News confirmed on Saturday that Braxton’s partner David Adefeso called 911 after he found her unresponsive at The Ritz where they had been staying. From E: The Los Angeles Fire Department…
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Tucker Carlson's Top Writer Resigns After Being Revealed as a Racist (On the Internet)
I know you will not clutch your pearls in surprise when I tell you that one of the writers behind the notoriously racist Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News has been revealed to be a virulent racist. After CNN broke the news that Blake Neff has been spending his time basically testing out material for…
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Costco Bans Employees From Wearing Masks That Say Black Lives Matter, Because It Is 'Political'
As Black people have long known, the idea that Black lives matter is still not a given to everyone—and is actually up for debate in some circles—which is what inspired the simple yet powerful affirmation in the first place. Costco is the latest business to betray its discomfort with the idea, with store managers in…
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Former NFL Player Kyle Queiro Apologizes for Publicly Questioning Whether Jill Scott Is Attractive
For some unknown reason (maybe because he feels a way about himself being largely unknown), former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Kyle Quiero hopped on Beyonce’s internet this weekend to question out loud if people really find Jill Scott, the sultry neo-soul singer, attractive. Queiro first came for Scott when she didn’t send for him on by…
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150 Minneapolis Cops File Disability Claims for PTSD, Which They Attribute to George Floyd Protests
The mendacity of police officers never ceases to amaze me, not to mention the extensive luxuries they get to enjoy as a result of tax-payer money. As The Washington Post reports, 150 police officers from the Minneapolis Police Department have started the process of filing disability claims that will allow them to leave the force…
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Lawyer for Michigan Couple Who Pulled Gun on Black Family Says They Were Victims of 'Ethnic Intimidation'
If it’s one thing white women know how to do, it’s to turn on the tears when they need to turn off the heat from their own behavior. Jillian Wuestenberg is now tapping into that super power to fight back against the charges of felonious assault slapped against her and her husband, Eric Wuestenberg, after…
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Trump Continues Crooked Behavior by Saving Roger Stone From Federal Prison
As anyone could have predicted—and as The Root did just a day ago—President Trump has used the power of his office to commute the sentence of his criminal crony Roger Stone. As the New York Times reports, on Friday evening Trump issued a statement announcing his decision to stop Stone from facing the legal consequences of…
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6-Year-Old Kicked Out of Arkansas Daycare for Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirt
A little Black girl was kicked out of a daycare in Russellville, Arkansas because its operators said she was encouraging racism by wearing a shirt that read ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Patricia Brown, Director of His Kids Learning Center, confirmed to Fox 16 News that 6-year-old Journei Brockman is no longer welcome there because of her…
