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Trump’s On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With North Korea Is Back On. Again
Previously on White House Apprentice, Donald Trump had a meeting scheduled with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Trump later canceled the meeting, accusing North Korea of acting in bad faith. He sent Kim a letter more emotional than the four-page one Aaliyah wrote, explaining his reasons for canceling and why he didn’t think things between…
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ABC Is Trying to Figure Out How to Keep Profiting Off Roseanne’s Brand Without Involving Roseanne: Report
ABC canceled Roseanne on Tuesday after its star Roseanne Barr sent out a tweet saying that former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was the child of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes. Although Roseanne would later claim it wasn’t, everyone with a brain knew that the tweet was racist, and ABC acted accordingly.…
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How Much Does It Cost to Find Out if the Trump Campaign Colluded With the Russians? $17 Million So Far
Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel on May 17, 2017, and tasked with finding out whether or not members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In the year since his appointment, his team has managed to secure guilty pleas from Donald Trump’s foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos,…
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For White People Who Pretend Not to Understand What Racism Is or How It Works: Here’s a Refresher Course
When Roseanne Barr was called out and subsequently fired for the racist tweet she made about Valerie Jarrett on Tuesday, two things happened at the same time. First, white people feigned ignorance as to why saying a black woman was the love child of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes was racist. They…
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What’s New and Black on Netflix for the Month of June?
With just two more days left in May, it’s time to get our calendars out and plot our binge-watching schedule for June. Exactly how many Netflix-and-chill sessions can we manage to squeeze in as summer officially begins? The answer is as many as it takes to watch all the good shows, films, documentaries and original…
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#ListeningToBiggieWhileBlack: Neighbors Call Cops on Black Doctor for Listening to Loud Rap Music
I am a writer who lives in the middle of a very white part of West Hollywood. I work from home most of the day, and when I’m working, I’m usually listening to music. While my playlists vary from day to day, trap music makes a regular appearance, and I like to listen to my…
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Federal Prisons Director Was Caught in Pissing Match Between Jared Kushner and Jeff Sessions, so He Quit
Last week while we were all debating whether it was Laurel or Yanny, watching white people calling the police on black people just because they can, and continuing to marvel at the comedy of errors that is the current presidential administration, the federal prisons director quietly resigned from his position because he couldn’t take another…
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#CoffeeWhileBlack: Black-Owned Coffee Shops in Philly to Host Roundtable on Day of Starbucks Racial-Bias Training
When Starbucks closes its shops Tuesday for its planned all-day racial-bias training, some consumers will be scrambling to find somewhere else to get their daily jolt of caffeine. A group of black-owned coffee shops in Philly—led by a black-owned coffee company—are encouraging consumers to patronize black-owned coffee shops around the country. Red Bay Coffee is…
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Watch This 16-Year-Old Sing the Hell Out of ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ on Showtime at the Apollo
You ever see a young person—I’m talking children and teenagers—sing something so knowingly and soulfully that you wonder what they experienced in a past life to give them that much feeling? There are young people who can take a song our mamas and daddies used to play over and over again on a Saturday morning…
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Dear Rachel Dolezal: Being a ‘Welfare Queen’ Actually Makes You White
Rachel Dolezal just can’t seem to keep her name out of the headlines. She probably doesn’t want to. She gained notoriety for pretending to be a black woman and serving as president of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP. She has done interviews defending her lie and is even the subject of a Netflix…
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