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Tomi Lahren Gets Dragged on Twitter … Again
Maybe we have been too harsh on Beckys. We often unfairly paint them as dumb, unfeeling white women when we don’t take any blame for their actions. The problem with most Beckys is not that they’re dumb. The problem is that the world likes skinny, blond, white women, so we pay them more attention. Even…
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A Recap of This Weekend’s Wypipo Hunger Games
Between Saturday’s London terror attacks, Bill Maher blurting out the n-word on live TV and the NBA Finals, you might have overlooked the fact that Portland, Ore., hosted a mashup of The Purge and The Hunger Games this weekend. White supremacists, militia groups and people who simply want to “make America great again” squared off…
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Y’all’s Drunk Uncle President Is Tweeting Again
I’ve figured it out. Aside from scarfing down family-size buckets of KFC, pathological lying and a predilection for pussy grabbing, we all know that Donald Trump’s vices do not include drinking alcohol or imbibing in recreational drugs. Yet our nation’s leader repeatedly leaves us perplexed with late-night tweets that sound as if he just got…
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How Police Brutality Keeps America Poor and Uneducated
What if there were a way that cities could put millions of dollars into the school systems without raising taxes? What if your county could fix the roads and invest hundreds of millions into education without going into debt? What if there were a way states could inject funds into jobs and community programs without…
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Lucia McBath, Mother of Jordan Davis, Explains Why You Should Wear Orange for Gun-Violence Awareness Today
There is an old interview of trainer Cus D’Amato in which he talks about how he instantly knew that Mike Tyson would be a great fighter. In the interview, he says that fighting has nothing to do with training or skill. D’Amato explains that when a good fighter takes a hard punch, he immediately knows…
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Green Book Mobile App Turns the Painful History of Traveling While Black Into Tool for Learning
A new mobile tool combines the latest technology with the legacy of a forgotten past when “traveling while black” was an activity fraught with peril and danger. In a first-of-its-kind combination of history and technology, the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission has created a web-based mobile version of The Green Book—also known as…
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Damian Marley and Investors Buy High Times, the Most Iconic Marijuana Brand
High Times, perhaps the most famous brand in the marijuana industry, was recently acquired by a group of investors that includes Damian Marley, Business Insider reports. Venture capitalist Adam Levin (no, not the Adam Levine dude from Maroon 5 and The Voice, although that white dude can sing his ass off) partnered up with Marley’s…
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Philly Cops’ Habit of Fondling Black Men Sparks Greatest Protest of All Time
In what may be the greatest protest ever, two Philadelphia police precincts received pairs of underwear from a local activist group Tuesday morning. However, the gifts were not meant to inspire thoughts of romance or affection. Instead, the packages were an ingenious protest designed to highlight a disturbing, but little-known, fact about law-enforcement officers in…
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Obama Administration Wanted to Decriminalize Marijuana
Officials in former President Barack Obama’s Office of National Drug Control Policy wanted to ease federal regulations on marijuana, but legislative and political restrictions held them back from taking their case public, according to a new report by HuffPost. The ONDCP (more commonly known as the “drug czar”) was created by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act…
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Jeremy Christian Went Crazy Yesterday Because White Supremacy Is Crazy
The white supremacist suspected of murdering two men and wounding another screamed and shouted his way through an arraignment hearing Tuesday. “Free speech or die,” Jeremy Christian yelled to a courtroom audience that included Micah Fletcher, the surviving victim of what authorities say was Christian’s brutal knife attack aboard a Portland, Ore., train, CNN reports.…
