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Colin Kaepernick Returns to Madden for the 1st Time in 4 Years
While a return to the NFL is unlikely, Colin Kaepernick has made his return to the next best thing: Madden. The Undefeated reports that a free update released for Madden 21 on Tuesday will allow players to draft Kap in the game’s franchise mode. “Now’s your chance to bring back Kap and be the virtual…
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Microsoft Finally Announces the Price…of the Xbox Series S
Of the four console rollouts I’ve seen in my lifetime, this has definitely been one of the strangest, second only to those weird-ass PS3 launch commercials. We’re two months away from the release of new consoles and aren’t entirely sure how much we’re expected to pay for them. Luckily, both a leak and an official…
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Fake Black Accounts That Spammed Pro-Trump Tweets Removed by Twitter
On Tuesday, Twitter removed two fake accounts that spammed tweets about Black people leaving the Democratic Party. According to NBC News, the fake accounts used pictures of Black men as their profile pictures to create the illusion they were run by Black people. One of the accounts, @WentDemtoRep, was created on Tuesday and used a…
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Building at Troy University Formerly Named for KKK Leader Renamed After John Lewis
A building at Troy University in Alabama, once named after a former governor with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, has been renamed in honor of late congressman John Lewis. CNN reports the university’s board of trustees voted unanimously to change the name of Bibb Graves Hall to John Robert Lewis Hall, effective immediately. Graves…
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Black Staff Member at Iowa State Victim of Racist Vandalism
A residence hall director at Iowa State University made an uncomfortable discovery when he found racial slurs spray painted throughout his residential storage room. WHO13 reports that Neo Thurston Jr., a 29-year-old Black man, entered the room and found that various forms of hate speech, including the N-word, were spray-painted on the floor, shelving unit…
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Pennsylvania Governor Wants to Legalize Marijuana to Help With COVID-19 Recovery Effort
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Tom Wolf included marijuana legalization as part of his legislative agenda for the state’s COVID-19 economy recovery plan. CNN reports that Gov. Wolf has asked the state legislature to work towards legalizing marijuana. A press release outlining his proposed plan states that 50 percent of marijuana sales be directed towards historically disadvantaged…
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Black Child Slapped, Called Racial Slur By White Woman in Florida
Today’s episode of White people are wildin’ takes us to Florida, where a white woman was arrested after slapping a Black child and calling him a racial slur. Why? Well, because their go-karts bumped into each other. ABC News reports that 30-year-old Hayley Zager was driving go-karts at Boomers amusement park in Boca Raton when…
