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White ‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisiana
Following an 18-month investigation, a man said to have served as the go-between for an international team of scammers running an elaborate “Nigerian prince” email scheme has been arrested in Slidell, La. Michael Neu, 67—who, as WGNO-TV puts it, “is neither Nigerian nor a prince”—was charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.…
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Rep. John Lewis Is Boycotting Trump’s Visit to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Opening
Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) announced Thursday that they will be skipping Saturday’s opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson because Donald Trump will be in attendance—something they consider to be “an insult” to the black heroes commemorated there. Thompson and Lewis issued a joint statement that said, “President Trump’s…
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LaVar Ball Pulls LiAngelo Ball Out of UCLA Over Indefinite Suspension: Report
LaVar Ball is reportedly unhappy with the punishment his middle son, LiAngelo, is receiving at UCLA since returning to campus in the aftermath of the China shoplifting incident—so much so that he has removed the younger Ball from the school in order to explore other options. After confirming to ESPN that he had pulled his…
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Nazi Sympathizer Loses His Job and Home After Being Profiled by the New York Times
Today in “Ahahaha, that’s what the fuck you get” news, the Nazi sympathizer who was profiled by the New York Times in an attempt to humanize him and his racist ideology says he has lost his job in the ensuing backlash from the article and could soon lose his home. Tony Hovater, 29, told the…
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#BlackLivesMatter Los Angeles Is Dreaming of a #BlackXmas
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles is encouraging everyone to divest from white corporations, invest in the black community and, if you must buy, to buy black this holiday season with its #BlackXmas campaign, which seeks to resist white supremacy through capitalism. Newsweek reports that Melina Abdullah—a BLM L.A. leader who is also a professor at…
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Twitter Just Gave Everyone 280 Characters, Which Means Nazis Can Be Even More Abusive Now
Prepare to be annoyed—or obnoxious, depending on how you look at it. Late Tuesday afternoon, Twitter began rolling out its new 280-character limit to all users on the platform, because that’s exactly what we need: the ability for people to be both abusive and long-winded at the same gotdamn time. There are plenty of other…
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Woman Says NYPD Held Her Hostage in Her Own Apartment for 10 Hours
A Brooklyn, N.Y., woman says that officers with the New York City Police Department held her hostage in her apartment for 10 hours while they conducted an investigation of her adult children. Rolinda Walls, 54, is a resident of the Van Dyke Houses in the Brownsville section of the city’s Brooklyn borough. She told the…
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Justice Department Will Not Bring Charges Against Any of the Officers Involved in Freddie Gray’s Death
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will not be filing federal civil rights charges against any of the Baltimore police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody. The Associated Press reports that in a statement, the Justice Department said that while Gray’s death was “undeniably…
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All Black Girl Everything: Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys to Face Off in US Open
Saturday’s final in the U.S. Open’s women’s singles matchup will be an athletic display of all black, everything black girl as two beautiful black American women compete in a grand-slam final that is likely to break records for black viewership because it’s our time to shine now, son. (*Cackles in #BlackGirlMagic.*) Sloane Stephens, 24, and…
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These Trumps Ain’t Loyal: Was Arpaio Pardoned Just to Undermine a GOP Senator’s Bid for Re-Election?
When the president pardoned former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio during the middle of both Hurricane Harvey and a Trump media dump Friday night, many speculated that it was a bone being thrown to his base to appease it after the likely forced resignation of deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka. But was there more at…
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