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Sorry, Santa—‘Jingle Bells’ Has Racist Roots
We know that the third stanza of “The Star-Spangled Banner” is racist, and the children’s song “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe” is also suspect, but a Boston professor is now saying that “Jingle Bells” might as well be called “Jungle Boogie.” OK—she never said that, but theater historian Kyra Hamill did discover that the beloved Christmas…
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4 Reasons Rwandan President Paul Kagame Is Not ‘Papa Africa’ Saving Slaves
On Nov. 14, CNN shocked the world with its video news report of black African migrants being sold into slavery in Libya. Eight days later, the Rwandan government issued a press release headlined, “Rwanda’s Door Is Open for Migrants Held Captive in Libya.” The day after that, the New York Times reported that Rwanda would…
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Hannibal Buress Calls Cops ‘Goofy AF’ While Being Arrested for Public Drunkenness
Hannibal Buress, who made his celeb bones by bringing Bill Cosby’s predatory behavior to light, was locked up in Miami for disorderly intoxication Saturday. A video of his arrest shows the 34-year-old being handcuffed around 10:30 p.m. on a busy intersection in Miami, flush with attendees from all over the world for the annual Art…
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‘What Did I Do?’ Black Minnesota Woman Viciously—and Mistakenly—Attacked by Police Dog
A black woman suffered severe dog bites to her extremities in September after St. Paul, Minn., police mistakenly allowed a police dog to attack her earlier this year. She filed a federal lawsuit against the Police Department and the officer this week. Fifty-two-year-old Desiree Collins was taking out the trash on the evening of Sept.…
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Comedian Marsha Warfield Says That Her Mother Didn’t Want Her to Come Out Until She Was Dead, Defends Patti LaBelle
Comedian Marsha Warfield weighed in on Patti LaBelle’s recent disclosure that Luther Vandross was gay and the black community’s tried-and-true embrace of “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” The actress, best known for her stint as the stink-faced, no-nonsense bailiff on the ’80s sitcom Night Court, posted a note on Facebook on Saturday saying that when she…
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Virginia Man in Custody for Sexual Molestation of at Least 21 Haitian Children
Yet another pedophile has been arrested for molesting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. This time it was a “missionary” from Virginia who was taken into federal custody after admitting to sexual contact with young boys in Haiti, with one as young as 5 years old. James Arbaugh of Stuarts Draft, Va., was reported to…
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This Starving Polar Bear Should Prove to All Climate Change Deniers That They’re Delusional and Disgusting
No, this story doesn’t explicitly have to do with black people—it’s about a white bear in what is supposed to be a visually white area (Canada’s Baffin Island), but it is blacker than black in its bleakness. A recently released video shows a polar bear dragging its poor, emaciated carcass across the tundra (I don’t…
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Days After Golden Krust CEO Commits Suicide, Workers Seek Class Action Lawsuit Over Wages
Less than a week after Golden Krust CEO Lowell Hawthorne shot and killed himself in his Bronx, N.Y., factory, the Caribbean bakery-and-restaurant chain was hit with a wage lawsuit brought by two former employees. The New York Daily News reports that William Anderson and Sixto Ramirez filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday, saying that…
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Did Chris Bosh’s Mama Turn His Texas Home Into the Trap?
No words for this so we’ll just present the facts as we know them. And honestly they seem a little sketchy to this reporter. On Tuesday, police sent an undercover agent to the Texas home of ex-NBA baller Chris Bosh, to grab a trash bag in an undercover crack cocaine and heroin trafficking ring sting…
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Ex-Atlanta Cop Found Guilty of Breaking Man’s Leg Over a Tomato at Walmart
In “Dey is a Gawd” news on this Saturday morning, a former police officer has been found guilty of assault and falsifying a police report in federal court for beating a man whom he accused of stealing a tomato. Turns out the man had a receipt in his pocket for the fruit-vegetable, but that didn’t…
