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Do All of Your Clothes Have To Be Off for It To Be Considered Rape?
The state of California has laws that prohibit the unwanted touching of another person’s “intimate parts.” Per the California penal code, those parts include the “sexual organ, anus, groin, or buttocks of any person, and the breast of a female.” To violate the statute constitutes sexual assault, and a sexual assault that leads to “non-consensual…
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Trump’s Tweets Reportedly Being Investigated in Mueller Probe
Donald Trump is a keyboard gangster, and Twitter is his gun. He wields his personal Twitter account like a weapon, using it to attack the press, foreign dignitaries and leaders, members of his own administration and anyone else who does not fall in line and do exactly what he wants them to at any given…
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Blindspotting Is the Perfect Metaphor for Implicit Bias
What are your blind spots? When you see a black person in a white neighborhood, do you question what they are doing there? When you see a white person in a black neighborhood, do you assume they are gentrifying? What if they’ve lived there all their life? What if they actually do belong there? Is…
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I Interviewed Denzel Washington About The Equalizer 2. He Really is Everybody’s Uncle
I recently had the pleasure of attending a screening in Los Angeles for The Equalizer 2. The film—directed by Antoine Fuqua—opens Friday, July 20, and it marks the first time both Fuqua and Denzel Washington have ever done a sequel to one of their own films. Washington reprises his role as ex-CIA agent Robert McCall,…
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2 White Women Attack Their Latinx Neighbors, Call the Police on Them, and End Up Going to Jail Themselves
Don’t worry, I’m not going to bother giving these two Beckys a cutesy nickname, but I am still going to tell the story of what they did, because I’m tired of white women and their antics. (I shouldn’t have to keep saying this, but we know “not all white women.” Shut the entire fuck up…
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Will Smith Just Won the #InMyFeelingsChallenge
You have probably already heard of the #InMyFeelings challenge which has taken over the internet and social media. It is the latest viral dance-off, and it was started by Instagram star Shiggy. Since he posted his video, celebrities such as Russell Wilson and Ciara, Sterling K. Brown and Susan Kelechi Watson, Lala Anthony and others…
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Is This a Youth Diversion Program or School-to-Prison Pipeline Feeder System?
Prior to a few years ago, I had never heard of a preschool student being suspended from school. The idea made no sense to me. How could a 3-, 4-, or 5-year-old child who is still learning the basics of sitting still for more than five minutes at a time possibly learn anything from such…
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Tyler Perry Says Stop Falling for Facebook Scams. He’s Not Giving Away Any Money
If you are one of the numerous people who blindly share Facebook posts about celebrities or sends those chain Facebook Messenger posts without checking their veracity, this one’s for you. Remember a few years ago when a rumor spread on Facebook that Tyler Perry was buying American Airlines? Remember how people kept spreading that rumor…
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Philly Police Department Seeks to End Implicit Bias With a Field Trip to a Black Museum
Every time there is an incident involving excessive use of force by the police against a black person, there’s a public outcry for change and reform. We want heads to roll. We want officers held accountable and punished. We take to the streets. We protest. We write editorials and articles and commentary on the current…
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Virginia Lawmaker Says He Can’t Be Racist Because His Son Is Named After a Black Man
This is a twisted and somewhat confusing tale of peak caucasity, white nationalism in American government and an epic claim of “not all white people” based on the name of one white man’s son. Pay close attention. U.S. Rep. Scott Taylor is a Republican congressman from Virginia who is up for reelection in November. At…
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