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Jon Snow’s Pimp Capes Are Actually Ikea Rugs. Here’s How to Make Your Own
If you follow our weekly series the Black Guide to Game of Thrones, you know that the Starks (and all the people in the North) represent black people in the fictional Game of Thrones universe, and even though Jon Stark does not technically have our blood running through his veins, Ned and Catelyn took him…
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Boycotting the NFL Will Not Work, but I’m Doing It Anyway
First I’d like to give honor to the Most High (Snoop Dogg), the members of the pulpit, the pastor, his wife, his mistress, the mother of the church, and all the saints and sinners in the audience. I am here today to ask for your prayers. I am about to endure one of the bravest…
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For White People Who Compare Black Lives Matter to White Supremacy
On Tuesday, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) appeared on a Fayetteville, N.C., radio show to talk about whatever Republicans talk about when they are asked to discuss the pile of lies in their nonsensical political agendas. The topic of conversation eventually reached Donald Trump’s public head nod to the white supremacist movement. According to the Charlotte…
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Mystikal Arrested for Rape … Again
First of all, what did you think was going to happen? The lyrics of his most popular song begin: I came here with my dick in my hand!Don’t make me leave here with my foot in your ass!Be cool! —“Shake Ya Ass” Well, after a previous stint in jail for the same crime, rapper Mystikal…
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Take the Quiz: Danny Glover Joined Airbnb as an Adviser Because …
After a troubled record with minority customers, Airbnb has announced a partnership with one of the most active and well-known black celebrities. The hospitality tech company has partnered with actor and activist Danny Glover, who will serve as an adviser on engaging communities of color. “The history of housing in America is a history of…
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Baltimore Drops 43 Police Cases After Cops ‘Fake’ Another Bodycam Video (Yes, That Makes 3)
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby has identified at least 43 cases that will be dismissed after a police officer basically admitted to faking a police video, leaving many people wondering, “Damn, are there any criminals in Baltimore, or are B-more cops out on the streets making their own episodes of The Wire every…
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Washed-Up Confederate-Flag Waver Who Stole Black Music Says ‘Fuck Colin Kaepernick’
You know how sometimes you forget a person’s name even though you can see his or her face in your mind’s eye? How you can remember everything about the person, except his or her name? That’s the exact state of mental purgatory in which I find myself as I write this. I’m sure it’ll come…
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Why Aren’t White Supremacists on the Terror Watch List?
On Feb. 11, 2016, federal agents escorted 38-year-old Safya Roe Yassin out of her Buffalo, Mo., home and charged her with multiple terror-related crimes that could ultimately result in five years’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release and $250,000 in fines. Yassin’s charging documents (pdf) reveal how she operated multiple social media accounts that sympathized with…
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The Secret Service Is Going Broke Protecting Y’all’s Baller in Chief
We’re not even two-thirds of the way through 2017, and the Secret Service has damn near run out of money because Donald “D. Diddy” Trump insists on living like he’s perpetually on the set of a ’90s rap video. According to USA Today, more than 1,000 agents have already hit the limit for their salary…
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Charles Barkley Is a Great Example of a Black White Supremacist
There are three questions for which black America has never received a satisfactory answer: Why is the word “swole” never mentioned in the list of great black inventions? Did we ever get a satisfactory answer to who in the hell left the gate open (and, perchance, was it the same person who let the dogs…
