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Congress Meets Saturday to Try to End Government Shutdown
Though there is enough hand-wringing, blame (see #ShumerShutdown, #SchumerShutdown, #TrumpShutdown) and hypocrisy to go around, the fact is that the federal government shuttered after midnight on Friday. Now members of Congress are scheduled to meet Saturday to strike a deal. The Washington Post reports that the House was expected to reconvene at 9 a.m. and…
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Africans Are the Most Educated Immigrants in US: Report
In light of President Donald Trump’s recent “shithole” remarks, followed by a flood of exceptional-immigrant stories on social media to refute them, followed by commentary that said immigrants have nothing to prove, it should be noted that the facts actually bear out that that this nation would be much better off with more black Africans,…
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Former Black Panther Leader Elaine Brown Receives $4,000,000 From Oakland, Calif., Jury for Elder Abuse
Elaine Brown, former leader of the Black Panther Party, was recently awarded more than $4 million by a Northern California jury, stemming from what was determined to be an assault by an Oakland, Calif., councilwoman in 2015. Last week, a jury found that Councilwoman Desley Brooks should pay $550,000 to Brown, who was injured after…
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Classic Hip-Hop: Nas Performs Illmatic With the National Symphony Orchestra
Nas’ first full-length feature, Illmatic, was the very first hip-hop album to get The Source magazine’s coveted five-mic rating. It was sonic and lyrical perfection; it remains an undisputed hip-hop classic. A progenitor to soaring street lullabies like Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid M.A.A.D. City or even Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt, Illmatic vividly captured the life…
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Pastor Mark Burns’ Arms Too Short to Box With Joy: ‘We’re Not Friends’
One good turn deserves another. And since Vice President Mike Pence was recently shamed by a pastor—actually, the man has no shame, so—since Pence was recently called out by a pastor, it’s only right that a pastor get a verbal drubbing of his own—just to show that all God’s children do not have traveling shoes…
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Michelle Obama’s 53-Year-Old Beach Body Is #Goals
The color white looks great on black skin, and former first lady Michelle Obama more than proved the point by recently stepping out, dressed in all white and MILFing like a mug stunting like an alluring angel in her beach ensemble. The 53-year-old mother of two put many of us to shame as she and…
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Is Condi Rice Mansplaining the #MeToo Movement by Saying Women Shouldn’t Turn Into ‘Snowflakes’?
In words one might not expect from the woman who used to be provost at a major university, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seemingly mansplained the #MeToo movement. “Let’s not turn women into snowflakes. Let’s not infantilize women,” Rice said during a CNN interview with David Axelrod on Saturday night. Instead of rightly…
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Trump’s DC Hotel Branded With New Name: Shithole
The word “shithole” was projected onto President Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel Saturday for about 40 minutes. Video from Robin Bell, who has projected other words along the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. (formerly the Old Post Office Pavilion), projected “shithole” along with tons of “poop” emojis, with an arrow pointing at the rounded entrance.…
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Did the White House Fake Trump’s Physical Results?
We all waited with bated breath for President Donald Trump’s physical results —asking how in the world could this rotund, KFC-and-McDonald’s-eating 71-year-old be in decent health? How, indeed? On Friday, the White House released a statement allegedly written by the doctor who administered the exam. It said that the president was “in excellent health.” Except…
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H&M South Africa Closes All Stores After Activists Trash Stores Over ‘Monkey’ Ad
Updated Sunday, Jan. 14, 2017, 9:15 a.m. EST: H&M has decided to temporarily close all of its stores in South Africa amid protests that have seen several of its stores ransacked by protesters upset at a recent racist ad. CNN reports that H&M has 17 locations in South Africa. “We continue to monitor the situation…
