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As Racist as He Wanna Be: Trump Attacks Mayor of San Juan, Implies Puerto Ricans in a Crisis Are Lazy
President Tiny Twitter Fingers lashed out at the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Saturday morning using thinly veiled racist language to disparage Puerto Ricans who are in desperate need of help after Hurricane Maria. Trump, tweeting from a golf course in New Jersey (because where else would the president be when citizens of…
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DirecTV Gives Refunds to Those Offended by NFL Protests
DirecTV is offering refunds on its Sunday Ticket NFL package to those snowflakes so offended by protests during the playing of the national anthem that they can’t bear to watch the game (or even pay for it, in this case). Time magazine reports that even though the satellite-TV provider’s rules explicitly state otherwise, customer-service reps…
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Head of DEA Stepping Down Because of Trump: Report
And another prominent person in the Trump regime bites the dust. This time, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration will step down by week’s end because he is “convinced that President Trump has no respect for the law,” according to a report from the New York Times. Chuck Rosenberg will step down as acting…
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Canadian MP Rocks ‘Pretty Dope’ Braids in Solidarity With Girls Shamed for Their Hair
Canadian Member of Parliament Celina Caesar-Chavannes took to the floor of our upstair neighbor’s legislative body last week and delivered a moving speech on bullying and intolerance of black hairstyles and features. “Irrespective of her hairstyle, the size of her thighs, the size of her hips, the size of her baby bump, the size of…
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Insecure Director Melina Matsoukas Will Helm Her 1st Series for Amazon Studios
The auteur who has blessed us with stunning visual work for Solange (“Losing You,”) Beyoncé (“Formation”) and Rihanna (“We Found Love”) will direct her first series with Amazon Studios: an adaptation of Marlon James’ novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. Melina Matsoukas, who is of Jamaican descent, is already the executive producer and director of…
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Grand Jury Will Not Indict Teen Charged With Choking Mom’s Abusive Ex-Boyfriend to Death
A grand jury has declined to indict a Bronx, N.Y., teen who was facing manslaughter charges in the death of his mother’s ex-boyfriend. Luis Moux, 18, told police that he was acting to save his mother’s life when he put 43-year-old Stanley Washington in a choke hold, which ended the older man’s life. As reported…
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Parents of Teen Accused of Nearly Hanging 8-Year-Old Say It Was an ‘Accident’ (and They Have Black Family, Too)
In what may be a classic case of CYCA (insert “child’s” into usual abbreviation), the parents of the young teen involved in what many call an attempted lynching in Claremont, N.H., have spoken out, saying that their son is innocent of racially taunting and trying to hang an 8-year-old boy from a tree. Going on…
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Howard University Students Protest James Comey at Opening Sesquicentennial Convocation
Although one of Howard University’s more esteemed former students, Ta-Nehisi Coates, said he was happy that James Comey was going to be speaking to the HU community this year, some students at the 2017 opening convocation keynote address didn’t feel the same. Scores of students stood up in protest as soon as Comey took the…
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New Study Finds That LGBTQ Youths and Youths With Disabilities Suffer Most Under Solitary Confinement
The story of Kalief Browder, the 22-year-old who committed suicide after spending nearly two years in solitary confinement at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail, is a tragic testament to a life snuffed out by a grinding, unflinching U.S. criminal-justice system. Not only did Browder suffer brutal violence at the hands of guards and…
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Jay-Z Reportedly Turns Down Super Bowl Halftime Gig; Is It in Solidarity With Kaepernick?
Many never forgave Jigga (OK, I never forgave Jigga) for going ahead with his Barneys capsule collaboration in 2013, when it was clear that the retailer was racially targeting its young African-American customers. But perhaps, as evidenced by his recent grown-man opus, 4:44, Jay-Z has matured in matters of love as well as social justice…
