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Colorado Cop Who Killed Unarmed De’Von Bailey Has Past of Brutality, Still Honored
The Colorado Springs police sergeant involved in the August killing of 19-year-old unarmed De’Von Bailey has once before gunned down a fleeing suspect and roughed up another person while enforcing a protection order, of all things. Alan Van’t Land is the latest personification of police persecution. And his dubious past is coming to light after…
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Kamala Harris Apologizes for Laughing at ‘Mentally Retarded’ Remark About Trump
The political campaign trail is no laughing matter. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris learned that the hard way after being called out for her reaction to a rallygoer who called Donald Trump’s actions “mentally retarded” at a campaign event on Friday. Disability rights activists criticized the California senator after she appeared to laugh at…
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With No Fux To Give, Author Walter Mosley Exposes Hollywood’s Sensitivity to the N-Word
Maybe some people prefer the n-word only to be used in hip-hop. Walter Mosley, the legendary author of best-selling crime fiction classics such as Devil in a Blue Dress and Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, uses the word in his books and in real life. But that didn’t cut it at the Santa Monica, Calif.-based production…
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Serena Williams Denied Record-Tying Grand Slam Title by 19-Year-Old Canadian
It was a fight to the finish in Flushing during the women’s final of the 2019 US Open on Saturday. And tennis icon Serena Williams gave it her all but missed her latest chance to win a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title. Bianca Andreescu, who was named 2019 US Open Series Breakout Performer in…
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Jay-Z x NFL in Another Clusterf#ck After One of Its Charities Forced to Apologize Over Dreadlock Drama
Ain’t no n-word, indeed. (For your edification, that’s taken from the title of a classic 1996 track by Jay-Z and Foxy Brown from The Nutty Professor soundtrack.) For all the good Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter is hoping that will come out of his problematic partnership with the problematic NFL (yes, I said it), yet another controversy…
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Giving Back: HBCU Hampton University Offers Free Tuition to Students Impacted by Hurricane Dorian
Thankfully, there has been a global outpouring of support for the islands of the Bahamas, which were severely impacted by Hurricane Dorian earlier this week. One historically black college—Hampton University—stepped up to the plate to help survivors of the storm, offering students the opportunity to continue their higher education on its campus this fall—free of…
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PayPal Suspends KKK Account Amid Criticism for Not Doing It Sooner
Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records once had a female rapper who released an album titled A.M.I.L. — an acronym for All Money Is Legal. That’s the code of the streets. And apparently the code of the sheets—and perhaps PayPal. If it wasn’t for pesky protestors, it would’ve been business as usual for the cash app giant. The…
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On the Comeback Trail, Nate Parker Shows American Skin and Apologizes About ‘Tone Deaf’ Response to Resurfaced Rape Charge
Nate Parker has a new attitude. And a new project he’s hawking to the masses. The once embattled actor/director—who torpedoed his Academy Award possibilities for his directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation in 2016 after a 1999 rape charge resurfaced while promoting the Nat Turner biopic—is back on the film festival circuit with his…
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‘Because of Our Christian Race…’ Mississippi Venue Won’t Do Gay or Mixed Race Weddings
A video allegedly showing an employee of an event venue saying they won’t host “gay weddings” or “mixed race” nuptials because of her religion has gone viral, sparking an uproar on social media. And take one guess where it was located. Mississippi, goddamn! On Saturday, LaKambria Welch shared a video on Facebook showing a woman…
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Latest Mass Shooting, in Odessa, Texas, Got Beto O’Rourke ‘F—ked Up’
With the increasing occurrences of mass shootings, America is turning into the killing fields, literally. The latest on Saturday in Odessa, Texas—left 21 injured and five dead when some fool opened fire during a traffic stop and then continued shooting at folks while driving down a highway and then into a shopping area. Democratic presidential…