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Florida Cop Handcuffs 11-Year-Old Black Boy Because ‘He Was Being Disrespectful’
Florida, man. In Jacksonville, Fla., JaxPAL is the city’s Police Athletic League. They sponsor a youth basketball league with the intended goal of creating “positive relationships between law enforcement officers and the youth of our community through educational, athletic and leadership programs.” Would you like to know how that is going? One of the law…
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#Flint: EPA Upholds State Authority to Set Deadlines to Fix Deficiencies in City Water System
As of Thursday, the people of Flint, Mich., have gone 1,569 days without a clean and stable water system in their city. The lead service line is in the process of being replaced, and the government keeps telling the city that its water is safer now—but residents remain skeptical. Through it all, city and state…
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‘Because He’s Black’: New Mexico Store Clerk Calls Police on College Student Buying Snacks
Are you as tired of hearing these stories as we are? Do you understand how horrible it is that black people can’t even mind their own business and buy snacks in peace without people weaponizing the police against them? At what point are these phone calls going to be declared a crime? At what point…
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Trump's Legal Team Gives Robert Mueller a Last-Minute Birthday Gift
On Tuesday, Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III celebrated his 74th birthday. On Wednesday, he got a late gift from Donald Trump’s legal team—a counter-offer to his request for an interview with the president as he continues his investigation into whether or not members of Trump’s campaign colluded with Russians in the 2016 presidential election.…
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Omarosa Has Secret Recordings of Donald Trump, and She’s Letting People Listen to Them: Report
Say what you want about former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault-Newman, but that woman knows how to play the game, she plays it well, and she plays it to her advantage. Sources have told The Daily Beast that the queen of sabotage secretly recorded conversations between herself and Donald Trump while she worked in the White…
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Cardi B's 1st Postpartum Performance Will Be at the Mala Luna Festival in October
Cardi B fans rejoice! The new mom has announced her first performance after giving birth to her daughter Kulture, and it will be at the Mala Luna Festival in San Antonio, Texas, this October. Cardi gave birth on July 11, and two weeks later, she announced that she was withdrawing from the Bruno Mars’ tour,…
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Protest Is Not Supposed to Make You Feel Comfortable
Over the weekend, activists allied with Black Lives Matter Sacramento showed up at a wedding event for Officer Terrence Mercadal, one of the two officers who shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark as he stood in the backyard of his grandparents home, holding a cellphone. The Sacramento Police Department has not released the identity of…
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LeBron James Is Producing a Docuseries for Showtime Called Shut Up and Dribble
Remember that time Fox News host Laura Ingraham got upset that “someone who gets paid $100 million a year to bounce a ball” would dare have an opinion on the politics going on in the country he was born in, raised in, lives in and pays taxes in—so she said LeBron James and any other…
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Beyoncé Has a FUPA. I Have a FUPA. We All Have a FUPA. ISSA CELEBRATION!
By now, you should have already heard all about Queen Beyoncé being on the cover of the September issue of Vogue magazine, telling Clover Hope—Culture Editor of our sister site, Jezebel—her innermost thoughts on everything from giving birth to Sir and Rumi to her feelings on her post-pregnancy body. In case you haven’t, my coworker…
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#NetNeutrality: Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Side With the FCC in Killing the Open Internet
It has been nearly eight months since the Federal Communications Commission repealed the net neutrality that keep the internet open and free for everyone, and the repeal officially went into effect on June 11. As lawmakers in individual states do their part to try and ensure net neutrality is still a reality for their constituents,…
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