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‘Enough Is Enough’: Dwyane Wade Reacts to Cousin’s Shooting Death on Chicago’s South Side
Nykea Aldridge, 32, the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade, was shot and killed while pushing a child in a stroller on Chicago’s South Side, NBC 5 Chicago reports. Jolinda Wade, Dwyane’s mother, identified Aldridge. Family spokesperson Pastor Edward Jones confirmed the tragic news. Aldridge was on the city’s South Side Friday afternoon, walking to register…
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Mr. Church: Just Another Film About a Black Man Being a White Woman’s Servant
White Hollywood is nothing if not a microcosm of white America, a place where shucking and jiving, bucking and jumping, “Yes, suh; no, ma’am” Negroes are more readily accepted than their revolutionary counterparts. This country has a fetish with subservient black men that translates into adoration on-screen. It makes perfect sense to me, then, that…
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New York Life Insurance Co. Fires Director for Calling BLM Activist 'Racist Pig Whore' on Facebook
Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. A racist antagonizer of the Black Lives Matter movement has been fired after his words wrote a check that his ass couldn’t cash. Shanelle Matthews, director of communications with the Black Lives Matter organization, was verbally attacked on Facebook by Corey Multer, a managing…
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Marc Lamont Hill on Voting Green, Not Being Afraid of Trump: 'We Can Afford to Lose an Election; We Can't Afford to Lose Our Values'
Marc Lamont Hill—Morehouse College Distinguished Professor of African-American Studies, New York Times best-selling author of Nobody, VH1 talk show host and a much-sought-after political and cultural commentator—swung by 105.1’s The Breakfast Club to chop it up with D.J. Envy, Charlamagne tha God and Angela Yee. Hill not only talked about his road to success—from dropping out…
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Dear Centrists: The Left Has Something to Say Whether You Like It or Not [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Green Alert: Presidential Hopeful Dr. Jill Stein Taps Human Rights Activist Ajamu Baraka as Her VP Pick
Green Party presidential hopeful Dr. Jill Stein has tapped Ajamu Baraka as her vice presidential pick for the upcoming 2016 election. Read more about Baraka below via Stein’s campaign website: Ajamu Baraka is a powerful, eloquent spokesperson for the transformative, radical agenda whose time has com—an agenda of economic, social, racial, gender, climate, indigenous and immigrant justice.…
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#RNCinCLE 2016: Melania Trump Takes a Big Bite Out of Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC Speech
If you were listening to Melania Trump, the wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, speak at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland Monday night, you may have had a sense of déjà vu. And that’s because first lady Michelle Obama said almost the exact same words during her speech at the 2008 Democratic…
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Micah Xavier Johnson: 5 Questions About the Alleged Dallas Sniper
If police and media reports are to be believed, Micah Xavier Johnson is a killer. Not only is he a killer, but he is the archnemesis of all that is good in the world because he planned an intricate plot to murder Dallas police officers in retaliation for the white supremacist police state’s systemic slaughter of black…
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#AltonSterling: 37-Year-Old Man Killed by Baton Rouge Police
Another black body on hot asphalt, heartbeat colliding with bullets in his chest, breathing becoming labored as an executioner in a uniform steals his life from him. This time, his name was Alton Sterling. This time, he was 37 years old. This time, he was a father of five. This time, he was selling CDs…
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#TakeItDownAmerica: Fight to Remove Mississippi’s Racist Flag Heads to the Nation’s Capital
On Flag Day (June 14), McComb, Miss., native and actress Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico, The Help) is taking the fight against the state’s flag all the way to the nation’s capital. Ellis will be joined by Michael Eric Dyson, musician Genesis Be and attorney Carlos Moore, along with lawmakers, celebrities and civic leaders from across the country. Moore…
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