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As Loved Ones Say Goodbye to US Soldier Killed in Niger, Trump Continues to Disrespect Congresswoman Affiliated With His Family
The private funeral for Army Sgt. La David Johnson, one of four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger, took place Saturday, his tragic death politicized by the president, who continues to feud with a congresswoman who was close to the family. Flags flew at half-staff across the state of Florida as an estimated 1,000 people attended…
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20-Year-Old Man With Autism Becomes 3rd Victim of Possible Fla. Serial Killer
A 20-year-old Tampa Bay, Fla., man with special needs appears to be the latest victim of a possible serial killer who has shot and killed three people in Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood. Anthony Naiboa, 20, who had an autism diagnosis, took the wrong bus home from work Thursday and was shot and killed around 8…
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#Resist: Music Professor Plays Black National Anthem From Bell Tower Before Richard Spencer’s Fla. Speech
As white nationalist troglodyte Richard Spencer prepared to take the stage for his University of Florida speech Thursday, James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (aka the black national anthem) rang throughout campus. Laura Ellis, a music professor at the university, went up 11 flights of stairs into the school’s carillon tower on Thursday…
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New Study Shows Bodycams Have Little Influence on Police Brutality
Well, the results are in, and they don’t look promising for police bodycams as the be-all and end-all in stopping police abuse and brutality. But I think we knew this. As many anti-brutality activists have maintained, it’s not about tactics (though they may help) but about dismantling the system and culture. A new study by…
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New Clinical Trial That Cured 6-Year-Old of Sickle Cell Disease Shows Promise for All
In July 2016, a resilient, joyful 5-year-old named Bryce took part in a first-of-its-kind clinical trial at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C. As an infant, Bryce had been diagnosed with a particularly severe form of sickle cell disease and had already suffered at least four strokes related to the blood disorder. A little…
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#FlyingWhileBlack: Harvard Law School Student Booted From American Airlines Plane With Infant
There’s news of yet another black woman being hostilely removed from an American Airlines airplane. This time it was a 24-year-old Harvard Law student who was traveling with her 4-month-old baby from Atlanta to New York. She and her infant daughter were forced to sleep in the airport to catch the first flight out the…
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Lone Protester Heckles Jerry Jones: ‘Look at the Videos of Police Getting Away With Murder and Tell Me the Players Are Wrong for Protesting’
Jerry Jones had his Southern-fried ass handed to him by a lone protester as the Dallas Cowboys owner walked through what looked to be a hotel lobby. In a 37-second video posted to Twitter, what sounds like an African-American man can be heard projecting to Jones, and shown holding an image of slaves with some…
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Utah Cheerleaders Caught on Video Chanting Racial Slurs; School District Whitesplains Their Actions
Racism hits the heartland in the form of cheery, blond cheerleaders gleefully chanting the n-word. Recently, a gaggle of Utah high school teens got caught on video chanting “Fucking niggers” in a widely shared Instagram video. The Ogden, Utah, school district is investigating the Weber High School juniors and seniors who repeated the racial slur…
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Your Petty-Ass President Has Declared Obamacare ‘Dead,’ but in a Karmic Twist of Fate, the People Who Put Him in Office Will Probably Suffer Most
We know that “the truth” is a relative concept in the Trump White House, so no one was surprised when President von FuckFace (kudos, Stephen A. Crockett Jr.) declared that Obamacare was “finished,” “dead” and “gone” Monday. It’s true that if Obamacare were a person, he very well might be on his deathbed, since Donald…
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Mented Founders Raise $1,000,000 in Capital for Vegan, Nontoxic Makeup for Women of Color
Black women can continue to give thanks because not only do we now have Fenty Beauty, but there’s also Mented, which recently secured enough capital to continue making products specifically for women of color. Mented co-founders Amanda Johnson and K.J. Miller, both 31, met at Harvard Business School and had been “bootstrapping” Mented with grassroots…
