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Chicago Cop Gets 5 Years for Shooting Into Car Filled With Black Teens
It must be snowing, because a federal court sentenced a white Chicago police officer to 60 months in prison for shooting into a car full of black teenagers in 2013. On Monday, Marco Proano, 42, received the five-year sentence three months after he was convicted of two counts of using unreasonable force and causing bodily…
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Meghan Markle Reportedly Moving Into Kensington Palace With Prince Harry
Oh, Gingy, are you moving your divorced black girlfriend into the palace? My, my, how things done changed for the roooooyallllls. Multiple outlets are reporting that Suits actress Meghan Markle is moving to London and straight into boyfriend Prince Harry’s house on the Kensington Palace property. She reportedly has left the legal show after seven…
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This Can’t Be Good: Genealogy Companies Say They’re Willing to Give Law Enforcement Your DNA
We all have those people in our family or close circle who are just like Martin Lawrence’s character in Boomerang: They “here” on all the conspiracies—from being certain that microwaves cause sterility in black men (or is it White Owls?) to obsessively covering up the cameras on their laptops. These are the folks who would…
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Marines Respond to Video of Jarhead Serving Up Racial Epithets With a Smile
The U.S. Marine Corps issued a response to a video circulating on social media that appears to show members of the Marine Corps drinking and one saying, “Fuck niggers” just for shits and giggles. The seconds-long video, posted on Friday to Snapchat, shows one jarhead in shorts and socks drinking from a funnel and then…
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LaToya Cantrell Becomes 1st Woman Elected Mayor of New Orleans
The rich, iconic city of New Orleans has its first female mayor in its 300-year history: LaToya Cantrell was officially elected to the position Saturday night. Cantrell defeated Desiree Charbonnet with 60 percent of the vote after a monthlong runoff, WWL-TV reports. “Almost 300 years, my friends. And New Orleans, we’re still making history,” Cantrell…
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Country Singer Criticizes Protests With Ineptly Named Ditty, ‘Take a Knee, My Ass’
First of all, what a dumb song title. I don’t even understand it. But then, I don’t understand the sentiment behind it, either (and they say country music is just “simple tales”). Pfffft. Recently, country music singer Neal McCoy released a song called “Take a Knee, My Ass” on Facebook Live, a pointed dig at…
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Tyrese Wins Shared Custody of His 10-Year-Old Daughter, Though Judge Ruled His Social Media Posts ‘Melodramatic’
Although his “fast and furious” social media posts of the last few weeks have caused many to question Tyrese Gibson’s mental health, a judge ruled in his favor on Friday, allowing him to see his 10-year-old daughter. The New York Daily News reports that a Los Angeles judge dismissed a domestic violence restraining order brought…
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Common Stars as His Own Comic Book Character, Caster
More black-nerd news: Common recently announced that he will create an original multimedia comic series called Caster. The series will be available exclusively on Line Webtoon’s site and app. Common will be creating an original score and song for the series and lending his likeness to the main character of Caster, a “man of exotic…
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Is Nicki Minaj Being Slut Shamed for Her Paper Mag Cover?
So, Nicki Minaj has upped the ante on black female sexuality by shooting a pretty explicit Paper Magazine cover with herself in a menage a trois. In Paper magazine’s Winter 2017 #BreaktheInternet cover, the rapper appears to be eating her own p*ssy on the mag cover in three different looks. But what for some is…
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Kim Foxx’s Office Orders Release of 15 More Chicago Inmates Tainted by Dirty Cop
Cook County, Ill., prosecutors headed by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx dropped all charges against 15 men they say were framed by a corrupt cop, with reports that this is the “first mass exoneration in history.” When the 45-year-old African American took office, she promised to target gun crimes in city neighborhoods and revamp a branch…
