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  • Amanda Seales Claps Back at Reactions to Her Autism Diagnosis Reveal on ‘Club Shay Shay’

    Amanda Seales Claps Back at Reactions to Her Autism Diagnosis Reveal on ‘Club Shay Shay’

    “My autism diagnosis is not for you to discuss, it’s not for you to debate,” said Seales on Instagram.

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    Jessica Washington






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    April 25, 2024
  • Conservatives Come For Texas Rep. Who Suggested Tax Break as Reparations for Black People. Is She Right?

    Conservatives Come For Texas Rep. Who Suggested Tax Break as Reparations for Black People. Is She Right?

    Congresswoman Jazmine Crockett suggested that letting Black Americans temporarily not pay taxes as a form of reparations was not “necessarily a bad idea.”

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    Jessica Washington






    Published

    April 10, 2024
  • Trump Compares Himself to Jesus, But Conservatives Say Sunny Hostin Is the Dumb One?

    Trump Compares Himself to Jesus, But Conservatives Say Sunny Hostin Is the Dumb One?

    Conservatives are piling on ‘The View’ Hostin for the way Monday’s solar eclipse, climate change, earthquakes in NYC, and the Rapture.

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    Jessica Washington






    Published

    April 9, 2024
  • A Mississippi Teen’s Family Wants His Death Investigated After Police Chase

    A Mississippi Teen’s Family Wants His Death Investigated After Police Chase

    The family is now demanding police release the body camera footage.

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    Jessica Washington






    Published

    March 29, 2024
  • Inside Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Mission To Take Down Fani Willis

    Inside Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Mission To Take Down Fani Willis

    The Georgia Representative filed a motion to get Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disbarred, but wait, there’s even more!

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    Jessica Washington






    Published

    March 28, 2024
  • Tennessee Mom Said She Accidentally Shot Daughter While Looking Through Purse

    Tennessee Mom Said She Accidentally Shot Daughter While Looking Through Purse

    Her 13 year-old daughter, Dearria Radley, tragically died from a single gun shot wound.

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    Jessica Washington






    Published

    March 28, 2024
  • Wait, What? Prosecutors Say This Fake Houston Pastor Had How Many Wives!?

    Orlando Coleman was sentenced to three years after prosecutors claim he faked being a clergy member in order to trick nearly a dozen women into marrying him.

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    Jessica Washington






    Published

    March 26, 2024
  • Did You See What Happened to Kyle Rittenhouse at the University of Memphis?

    Did You See What Happened to Kyle Rittenhouse at the University of Memphis?

    A video showed Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two people during a Black Lives Matter rally, being booed and escorted off stage.

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    Jessica Washington






    Published

    March 22, 2024
  • Power Players Come For Police Accused of Tasing Unarmed Black Man to Death

    Power Players Come For Police Accused of Tasing Unarmed Black Man to Death

    Jim Roger died after being tased repeatedly by Pittsburgh police. Now, the NAACP is asking the DOJ to investigate.

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    Jessica Washington






    Published

    March 21, 2024
  • Donald Trump’s Potential AG Warns of “Violent Black Underclass” and Other Racist Theories

    Donald Trump’s Potential AG Warns of “Violent Black Underclass” and Other Racist Theories

    Mike Davis, who has been floated as a possible Attorney General under Trump, spread racist conspiracy theories about a “violent Black underclass.”

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    Jessica Washington






    Published

    March 20, 2024
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