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Hakeem Jeffries Elected to Lead Democratic Caucus, Karen Bass to Chair Congressional Black Caucus
With the Democrats taking over the House during the last election, it appears all the Congressional new blood is leading to new leadership across the board. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York will be the new Democratic Caucus leader, and Rep. Karen Bass of California will be the new chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.…
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Trump Wants to Create His Own Propaganda Network Because Fox News Is Not Enough
Donald Trump is a narcissist, and narcissists are scary people. Trust me, I speak from experience. No, I have never had any personal dealings with the sitting dotard, but I have experienced other narcissists, and the reality that they spin for themselves where they are the center of everything and everything revolves around them is…
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White Nationalist Accused of Driving His Car Into a Crowd and Killing Heather Heyer Claims It Was Self-Defense
The Ohio man charged with driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at last year’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., and causing the death of Heather Heyer plans to argue that he was acting in self-defense at the time. James Alex Fields Jr., 21, faces 10 state charges including first-degree murder and malicious…
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Ava DuVernay Secures the Bag With $100 Million Warner Bros. TV Deal
Ava DuVernay’s ascension to Hollywood black royalty status has been something of a Cinderella story, and with her most recent achievement, her tale just got that much richer—so to speak. From her brief affair with a career in journalism that included covering the OJ Simpson trial for CBS News to her turn as a film…
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‘Terrorism’: Rihanna Calls the Pepper Spray Attack Against Migrants Seeking Asylum Exactly What It Is
I stan a queen. Don’t you? Rihanna has been busy basking in the glory of her successful Fenty business ventures, leaving her fans eagerly awaiting new music or some sort of sign that their president still loves them. She bestows that love in the form of a hot lingerie brand, cosmetics people can’t wait to…
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Putting More Cops in Schools Does Not Make Them Safer: Report
File this under “things we already knew but it’s good to have confirmation anyway”: a new report says putting more police officers in schools does not necessarily make them safer. Kenneth Alonzo Anderson, an associate professor at Howard University, conducted a study focused on North Carolina middle schools and found no relationship between increased funding…
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St. Louis Woman Faces 6 Months in Jail Over a Speeding Ticket She Already Paid and Served Time For
Our criminal justice system is a nightmare for those members of our society who are too poor to pay in. Traffic court systems in our local municipalities have become a feeder pipeline to a larger criminal justice system that can tie people up for years in the court system—all while providing local revenue and funding.…
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Is This Your Queen? Ellen Pompeo, Growth and Performative White Allyship
There is a video circulating on social media currently that has people praising Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo as our new white shero. In the video, Pompeo is on stage being interviewed by Net-A-Porter alongside actresses Gabrielle Union, Emma Roberts and Gina Rodriguez. In the short clip, she is discussing how white people have a…
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How Do You Cook a Thanksgiving Turkey?
It’s two days before Thanksgiving, and today my sister called to ask me if I know how to cook a turkey. I don’t, and neither does she, but we are going to struggle through it together this week because by some dumb stroke of luck we have ended up with two of them. Yep. I…
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Green Book Has Great Acting, a Misleading Title and Palatable Racism for White People
When I sat down to watch the movie Green Book, I was expecting to get a visual education on the historical use of The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor Hugo Green. Green published the guidebook from 1936 to 1966 for black travelers in the Jim Crow era whose trips took them through areas that…
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