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Kobe Bryant Cut From Film Festival Jury After Blowback From 2003 Rape Case
Looks like that 2003 rape allegation has caught up to Kobe Bryant after all these years. Variety reports that the former five-time NBA world champion was cut by the Animation Is Film Festival jury last week, as a result of fallout from over his 15-year-old rape charge. Bryant won an Academy Award this year for his…
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Trump Administration Seeks to Erase the Lives of 1.4 Million Trans Americans Through a Narrow Definition of Gender
Talk about going backward. What began as a trickle, by rolling back hard-won changes the Obama administration put into place for transgender Americans, has turned into a full-out assault, as the Trump administration has proposed to legally define gender as a binary biological absolute determined at birth. This proposal has far-reaching consequences if it comes…
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30 Injured When Floor Collapses at Kappa Party During Clemson’s Homecoming Weekend
It wasn’t “burning down the house”—more like, “falling through the floor,” as a raucous off-campus frat party turned disastrous at Clemson University during homecoming weekend. Partygoers at a rented South Carolina clubhouse were getting it in at an annual Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. party when video showed the floor giving out around 12:30 a.m.…
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White Man Verbally Assaults Older Black Woman on Flight, Calls Her an ‘Ugly Black Bastard,’ Airline Does Nothing
Racism, once again, reared its ugly head in the form of a pasty-faced colonizer who had the nerve to call an elderly black woman he was seated near on a flight an “ugly black bastard.” And despite this display of verbal abuse the man was not, I repeat, was not, removed from the plane for…
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Mitch McConnell’s Doggie Bag Goes the Way of His Morals—Out the Door
The incivility of it! U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, who basically maligned and railroaded a sexual assault survivor for his own political purposes, among a million other dubious, morally-bankrupt and plain ole selfish/dangerous moves, got his good food thrown out the door—at a Cuban restaurant, of all places. And I am living!!! TMZ reports McConnell was…
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#SayHerName: Florida Police Viciously Beat 14-Year-Old Black Girl for ‘Resisting Arrest’
Though the modern narrative on police brutality tends to focus on murdered black men and boys, black women and girls are also the victims of over-policing in black communities. Through hashtags like #SayHerName, organizations like the African American Policy Forum have been shouting from the rooftops for years that black women—cis and trans—are also vulnerable…
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Warrants Issued for 6 Men, 1 Woman, in Fort Valley State University Prostitution Scandal
Now, it’s time for the johns to go down. In response to the April bust of an alleged sex and prostitution ring at Fort Valley State University, in Fort Valley, Ga., a judge recently issued warrants for the arrest of six men who were clients of students at the HBCU, allegedly pimped out by a…
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Turkey Renames Road to U.S. Embassy for Malcolm X, Nixes Trump’s Name From Another Street
The country of Turkey is unexpectedly running in tandem with many majority black communities in the U.S. by naming a street after our gone-too-soon shining black prince, Malcolm X. On Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin made the announcement that the street leading to the U.S. embassy in Turkey will be named “Malcolm…
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SF Giants Co-Owner Disavows Racist Congressional Ad Featuring Black Women
San Francisco Giants co-owner Charles Johnson is now trying whitesplain his support of a super-PAC which ran a terribly offensive radio ad during a tight congressional race in Arkansas. The ad, which ran in support of Republican Rep. French Hill in his race against Clarke Tucker, a Democrat, is so bad that even the candidates…
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Damn … Luke Cage Knocked Off by Netflix
Looks like we’ll only have Black Panther and Black Lightning to keep our black superhero fix going. We also have Shuri, for those who still read. Netflix and Marvel announced on Friday that Luke Cage, set in Harlem and helmed by Cheo Hodari Coker (along with musical direction by Raphael Saadiq, Adrian Younge, and Ali…
