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Nipsey Hussle to be Honored on House Floor Next Week by Rep. Karen Bass
Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), a Los Angeles native, wants to make sure Nipsey Hussle’s legacy lives on and his contributions to the community are recognized. To that end, she plans to honor the slain rapper on the House floor next week. In a tweet sent out Wednesday evening, Bass wrote “I will be heading to…
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White Teens in Maryland Sentenced to Weekends in Jail for Racist, Anti-Semitic Graffiti
Last year, four graduating seniors at Glenelg High School in Howard County, Md., defaced their school with racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti that they spray painted across the school—defacing sidewalks, parking lots and other parts of the high school building. Some of the graffiti directly targeted the school’s principal, David Burton—who is black—with the word…
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Money Moves: Cardi B Gets 21 Billboard Music Award Nominations
It’s that time of year again. The 2019 Billboard Music Awards are coming next month, and Dick Clark Productions and NBC announced the nominees in 56 categories across all genres of music live on Today Thursday. Cardi B, who is still enjoying her meteoric rise to fame, leads the pack with 21 nominations. That includes…
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Why the NRA Is Against the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization in Congress
“The No. 1 way that women are being killed with guns is by their beloveds, their boyfriends, their significant others,” freshman Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) said as she argued in favor of stricter gun laws. Her son, Jordan Davis, was murdered in 2012 by a man at a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station who was upset…
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White-on-White Crime: Trump Supporter Aggressively Heckles News Reporter on Camera at Political Event
When you work in journalism, you come to expect that you are going to encounter your fair amount of trolls as you go about your daily job. They are out there, and they are ready to heckle you at every turn—whether their opinions about what you are reporting on are based in fact or not.…
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The Real National Emergency: We Could Run Out of Avocados in 3 Weeks If Trump Shuts Down the US/Mexico Border
Hi, have we met? My name is Monique Judge, and I love avocados. I love avocado in all its forms. I eat tons of guacamole and avocado toast, and I always ask for “extra” avocado whenever I order a dish that comes with avocado in it. If I am making a salad, you can be…
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Activists Call on NC Gov. Roy Cooper to Transfer Kanautica Zayre-Brown to a Women’s Detention Facility
Kanautica Zayre-Brown is a 37-year-old woman who was sentenced to 9 years and 11 months in a North Carolina prison for insurance fraud and “obtaining property by false pretenses.” Zayre-Brown is a post-operative trans woman—believed to be the only post-operative trans inmate in the North Carolina prison system—yet all of her requests to be transferred…
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Donald Trump Decides Cutting Funding to the Special Olympics Isn’t Such a Good Idea After All
After he let his education secretary get flamed by every single person on the planet with compassion in their heart, y’all little “president” has decided to dial back his decision to cut funding for the Special Olympics from the federal budget. As the Washington Post reports, Donald Trump made the decision after he let Betsy…
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Charlotte Police Shoot and Kill an Allegedly Armed Man at Burger King
A 27-year-old man is dead, and protesters are questioning the police’s version of the events that led up to him being shot and killed by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer. Officer Wende Kerl shot and killed Danquirs Napoleon Franklin at a Burger King around 9 a.m. on Monday, according to the Charlotte Observer. Police say Franklin…
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Calvin Desir Is the Second Parkland Shooting Survivor to Die By Suicide in a Week
A second survivor of the February 2018 Parkland mass shooting has committed suicide this week. Police confirmed that 16-year-old Calvin Desir took his own life late Saturday evening, the Miami Herald reports. Desir was the second survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to die by suicide in a week. 19-year-old Sydney…
