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Trap Music Gets 2 Baristas Fired From a Duke University Coffee Shop After School VP Complains
On Friday, a Duke University vice president walked into a campus location of Joe Van Gogh, a local North Carolina coffee chain. While there, he heard a rap song playing that he found offensive, so he voiced his concern to the barista who was serving. She apologized and turned off the offensive song, but that…
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Red Alert: The Fight for #NetNeutrality Continues
You may have noticed some of your favorite websites sporting a different look Wednesday. In collaboration with Demand Progress, many sites went on “Red Alert” to draw attention to the continuing fight to protect net neutrality, otherwise known as the open internet. The Red Alert for Net Neutrality is part of a continuing effort to…
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#Flint: Water Was Flagged as ‘Poor’ Weeks Before Gov. Snyder Ended Water-Distribution Program
As of Tuesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have been without clean water for 1,475 days. Gov. Rick Snyder ended free bottled-water distribution in the city on April 6, citing test results that showed the city’s water supply tested below the federal action level for lead—but environmental experts in the state had warned that the…
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‘Protect and Serve Act’ Would Make Police a Protected Class and Violence Against Them a Hate Crime
On Tuesday, Congress introduced the “Protect and Serve Act,” legislation created to address violence against police. The House of Representatives and the Senate introduced their individual versions of the bill, with the Senate version designating violence against police a federal hate crime. The House version (pdf) of the bill makes it a crime to knowingly…
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Federal Judge Blocks Police Lawsuit Against Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged six police officers in the 2015 death of Freddie Gray. Five of those officers filed a lawsuit against her, alleging malicious prosecution. On Monday, a federal appeals court blocked that lawsuit, preventing it from moving forward. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling overturned the January 2017…
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Why Won’t George Zimmerman Just Go Away?
You would think a man who was acquitted of the murder of a teenage boy five years ago would just go on living his life in obscurity, never to be heard from again. Unfortunately, the man in question is George Zimmerman, and it would appear that he lives for the headlines. CNN reports that Zimmerman…
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‘Not All White People’: A Definitive Disclaimer
I wrote about white people gentrifying fried-bologna sandwiches last week. I knew as soon as I hit publish on the post what type of response it was going to get, but I published it anyway because the kinds of white people who would turn a fried-bologna sandwich into some type of hipster happy meal, complete…
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White People Have Gentrified Fried-Bologna Sandwiches
I was going to sign off for the night, but I have one more post for y’all. It appears that white people have gentrified the struggle meal that put the “struggle meal” in struggle meals: fried bologna. I would not have believed it myself if I hadn’t seen it drift down my Twitter timeline ever…
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The 1st Date Was Successful. Now What?
Dating in the age of Twitter should really come with a manual or a rulebook or at least some guidelines for what happens after you successfully complete the first date and decide that you want to continue seeing the person. I either like you all the way or I don’t; there is no in-between. This…
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The Greatest Responses to the News DJ Khaled Is Not a Lick-’Em-Low Lover
DJ Khaled was a trending topic on Twitter all day long Friday after part of an interview he did with The Breakfast Club a while back resurfaced on social media as a “Flashback Friday” post. In the clip, Khaled proudly proclaims that he doesn’t perform oral sex on his wife, Nicole Tuck, because he is…
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