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15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards Laid to Rest as Family, Friends, Classmates Remember His Short Life
At a funeral service that included a touching photo montage, soaring gospel music and the names of those Americans slain by police ringing out from the pulpit, more than 800 family and friends packed into a Baptist church in Mesquite, Texas, on Saturday to remember the life of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. Jordan was shot and…
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Rape Charges Dropped Against Hispanic Teens Trump White House Used to Justify the Bullshit
In what surely has to be a disappointment for a White House that used this case to dubious and distasteful political advantage, prosecutors have dropped charges against two Hispanic teens accused of raping a girl in a Maryland high school bathroom. At least one of the teens was an “illegal” immigrant who handily fit the…
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NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism Centers Black Women Here and Beyond
Transcranial stimulation. A character named Brooks—for Gwendolyn. A billion-year-old throne run by a Queen Mother in the cosmos. The defiance of gender binaries. The creation of a new black American mythology inside virtual reality. All through the cultural lens of black women as they worship at the temple of our familiar: the hair salon. “I’ve…
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Cleveland Mom Pulls Gun on Barber for Taking Too Long to Cut Son’s Hair: ‘I’ll Pop You!’
There are times when your mama embarrasses you in the street. Maybe by cussing your little brother out in Forever 21; maybe she’s country loud and makes conversation with every single person she meets. But some mamas take the cake, ice cream and chips. Police in Cleveland are looking for a woman who pointed a…
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White Privilege! Somebody Allegedly Gave Milo Yiannopoulos $12,000,000 to Start New Venture
Looks like douche-y provocateur extraordinaire* Milo Yiannopoulos has risen from his pedophile-tinged ashes to the tune of $12 million. Wow. Yes, Yian-what-the-fuck—the bitchy misogynist of epic proportions, who had his $255,000 book deal snatched, resigned from Breitbart “news” and was disinvited from speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference after an interview surfaced during which…
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Man Gets 15 Years for Shooting 5 BLM Activists Protesting Police Shooting Death of Jamar Clark
A Minnesota man who shot five Black Lives Matter protesters has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. CBS News reports that Allen Scarsella, 25, and his crew got into an argument with some protesters who were demonstrating outside a Minneapolis police station after the 2015 shooting death of 24-year-old Jamar Clark by police. Eyewitnesses…
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Omarosa Receives Tepid Response at NAN Luncheon; Angela Rye Says Trump’s ‘Piss Ain’t Rain’
Omarosa Manigault-Newman is one brave woman. She has to be to step into the makeshift house of justice and represent Team Trump. But that’s exactly what she did Thursday at the annual Women’s Power Luncheon at the National Action Network Convention in New York City, which featured a plethora of powerful ladies, like super stylist…
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Eric Holder Rails Against Voter Suppression at NAN Convention: ‘Voter Fraud Wasn’t an Issue Until People of Color Started Casting Ballots’
The Rev. Al Sharpton’s annual power play, the National Action Network Convention in New York City, is back, and, as promised, the slate of high-powered speakers have brought the pain to “Trump’s front door.” As usual, the convention features the cream of the crop of political leaders, activists, media pundits and intellectuals—with celebrities thrown in…
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Kendrick Lamar’s Mom Proves She Will Forever Remain a G
Anyone not new to Kendrick Lamar knows that his seminal debut, Good Kid mA.A.d City, was so incredible because it vividly captured his complicated, heartbreaking, musical coming of age in Compton, Calif. Besides his genius lyrics and song, a large part of that magic was Kendrick getting his hilarious mother and father on an interlude…
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7 More Black Employees Plan to Sue Fox News for Racial Discrimination: Report
Sexual harassment is apparently not the only thing toxic about Fox News’ culture. New York magazine reports that there are mounting allegations that there was also blatant racial discrimination at the network and that next week, seven black Fox News employees plan to join an existing racial discrimination suit filed last month. The original lawsuit,…
