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Trump Surrogates and GOP Pols to Meet With HBCU Heads During Black History Month
Given President Donald Trump’s recent interest in historically black colleges and universities and the rumored executive order supporting them, a group of Republican leaders plans to meet with HBCU heads in the coming weeks. The Grio reports that the meeting will include GOP congressional members and Omarosa Manigault, who is supposed to be presenting the…
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Trump’s Justice Department Appeal Is Denied; His ‘Muslim Ban’ Will Not Stand
Updated Sunday, Feb. 4, 2017, 10:30 a.m. EST: Governmental policy now moves with the speed of a Williams-sisters tennis match. Today a federal appeals court denied the Justice Department’s request for an immediate reinstatement of President Donald Trump’s travel ban for certain travelers and refugees, which was instituted last week and halted by a federal…
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Trying to One-Up Obama, Trump Will Sign Executive Order Supporting HBCUs: Report
Perhaps after the now infamous Frederick Douglass debacle kicking off Black History Month, President Donald Trump wants to make it right with the blacks. According to a BuzzFeed report, the White House is working on an executive order supporting historically black colleges and universities—a way to crow, since some believe that President Barack Obama did…
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Facts: Trump’s Muslim Ban Doesn’t Include Countries He Has a Business Interest In
The seven countries that President Donald Trump issued a ban against are predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa. Christian refugees from those nations can expect to receive more favorable treatment than Muslims from those nations. The countries included in Friday’s executive order (stayed by a federal judge on Saturday) are Syria, Libya,…
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Mary, Mary, Why You Buggin’? Tina Campbell ’Splains Her Support of Donald Trump (Though No One Really Asked)
Tina Campbell, one half of contemporary gospel duo Mary Mary, is yet another black woman who has come out in support of President Dick L’Orange. Campbell took to her Facebook page this week with an open letter, giving our new president both her forgiveness and support. Awwwwww. She lists her reasons as biblically based. “I…
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#StayWoke: Trump Names ‘Alt-Right’ Racist Steve Bannon to National Security Council While the World Protests His Muslim Ban
In a flurry of executive orders* even the most ardent news hound finds hard to keep up with—including one banning Muslims from seven nations from coming to the U.S., sparking protests throughout the country Saturday night—President Donald Trump is remaking the world in his skewed, scary image. And while many are rightly incensed over the…
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NBC Ain’t Shit: Megyn Kelly to Replace Only 2 Black Folks* on Today Show
In their groveling assent to the “people of the country who are so forgotten”—you know, real Americans—NBC is reportedly contributing its own special brand of self-interested racism to the culture by keeping daytime TV and news as white as it wanna be. You would have thought, after the MSNBC debacle when the network tried (and…
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Nas Debuts ‘Black Don’t Crack’ HSTRY Clothing Line in Time for Black History Month
Rapper Nas, fresh off the pipin’-hot sales of his black Santa holiday gear, says he will debut a hip (hop) HSTRY clothing line right in time for Black History Month, or the shortest month of the year. The Huffington Post reports that Nas is launching an exclusive 2017 Black History collection featuring inspirational dashikis, throwback…
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The Steelers’ Antonio Brown Signs Deal With Facebook, May Explain His Crazy Facebook Live Post
So you know that Facebook Live stream in which NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown showed the innards of his Pittsburgh Steelers’ team’s locker room, where coach Mike Tomlin went off during a postgame rant? Well, maybe Brown wasn’t just caught up in the excitement of the win. And maybe the generous baller is going to…
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‘The Black Girl’ Stacey Dash Gets Canned by Fox News
Stacey Dash, a vehement Donald Trump supporter and Republican apologist—you know, the one former Fox CEO Roger Ailes reportedly called “the black girl”—has been kicked off one of her biggest soap boxes. The Hill reports that Fox News has declined to renew Dash’s contributor contract. The only network our current president seems not to despise…