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Dear Stacey Dash: Go Sit Your Ass Down Somewhere
Dear Stacey Dash: I hate that I even have to write this. As a teenager, I thought you were so beautiful, and I loved all your movies. You gave us your best spoiled, bougie black girl in Moving with black comedy royalty, Richard Pryor. You were the spoiled Beverly Hills black princess everyone wanted to…
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Put Them in Hotation: A Practical Guide for Managing Your Casual Sex Relationships
On Sunday’s episode of Insecure, we followed along as Issa worked to navigate the seas of casual relationships. She referred to her growing roster of datable and fuckable men as her “hotation,” which is a cute and clever name for something many women (and, of course, men, but we are going to talk about women…
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Did a Crowd of Counterprotesters in Durham, NC, Scare Off the KKK?
As rumors circulated Friday morning that the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists planned to rally in downtown Durham, N.C., in response to the toppling of a Confederate statue on Monday by racial-justice advocates, counterprotesters showed up, crowding the streets and forcing local and government businesses and buildings to shut down for the day.…
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Real-Life Clayton Bigsby Writes Email Denouncing Black Lives Matter, Supporting Confederate Monuments Because He ‘Wanted to Help’ Trump
Let me preface this by saying that as black people, we always know there is going to be at least one. You know the type. They do the most to set themselves apart from the rest of us black folks because they want to be viewed as “different” and “special.” Even if it means selling…
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Durham, NC, Activists Stand in Solidarity, Crowds Gather to Turn Themselves In for Toppling Confederate Statue
On Monday evening during a rally against white supremacy, demonstrators in Durham, N.C., toppled a Confederate statue that had been standing in front of the old courthouse in the city’s downtown area. On Tuesday morning, Takiyah Thompson, the black woman who tied the noose around the statue’s neck so it could be pulled down, was…
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Wait! Calif. Had Confederates, Too?
I had no idea that there were Confederate monuments in the state of California, so color me surprised when I found out that one of them was located in my beloved Hollywood at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. No need to get upset, though; after intense pressure from the public, the monument was removed early Wednesday…
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Killings of Black Men More Likely to Be Deemed Justifiable: Report
A recent analysis conducted by the Marshall Project confirms what most of us have known, or at least suspected, all along: When a black man is killed by a white person in America, his killer is less likely to face legal consequences, and the killing is more likely to be deemed justifiable. The Marshall Project…
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Should Confederate Symbols Be Banned in the US?
Symbols of the Confederacy have been the subject of two very different events over the last few days. In Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue from a public park, and their “protest” turned into a bloody riot, with one woman being killed and countless others being…
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State Senator in NC Calls Black Lives Matter a ‘Violent, Racist Movement’ Comparable to White Supremacists
After the deplorable racist and violent incidents that happened over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., many have spoken out against the white supremacists involved and called for action to be taken. One state senator in North Carolina took it a step beyond by calling Black Lives Matter a “violent, racist movement” and comparing it to…
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Black Woman Arrested in Connection With Confederate Statue Being Taken Down at Protest in Durham, NC
A black woman in Durham, N.C., was arrested Tuesday in connection with the toppling of a Confederate monument outside the Durham County courthouse Monday evening, and the Durham County Sheriff’s Office is executing search warrants, with more arrests expected to come. Takiyah Thompson, who, witnesses told The Root, was the activist who climbed a ladder…
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