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  • Melania Trump’s Kidney Revolts, Tries to Leave the White House Without Her

    First lady Melania Trump is looking for any way to escape her husband, his joke of a presidency and her life as a bird in the gilded cage that is the White House. She’s so over this life that even her internal organs are like, “OK, bitch, if you not leaving, EYE WILL.” Her kidney…

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  • Mamas Day 2018: Honoring Black Mamas’ Right to Parent

    There remain systems of social, economic and political marginalization that prevent black women and femmes from being able to fully live with dignity and reproductive autonomy. In response to that, Forward Together’s annual Mamas Day digital campaign has the theme “Black Mamas’ Right to Parent” for 2018. For Mamas Day 2018, Forward Together worked with…

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  • Breaking In: Gabrielle Union Plays One Bad Mother

    The opening of Breaking In is jarring and confusing and sets the tone for the rest of the roughly 90-minute film, which could best be described as Panic Room-meets-Eye for an Eye—with black people. A handsome, older black man is jogging through a residential neighborhood when he is suddenly and without warning struck by a…

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  • Monica Lewinsky Gets Uninvited From an Event After Bill Clinton RSVPs

    When Town & Country magazine sent out invitations to its 2018 Philanthropy Summit, the guest list included people such as Lin-Manuel Miranda, model Karlie Kloss, Gayle King, actor Bradley Cooper and Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky gladly accepted the invitation and sent in her RSVP. On Wednesday, she tweeted that her invitation had been rescinded because former…

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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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  • Donald Trump Has a Doppelgänger: A Spanish Woman Who Farms Potatoes

    Of all the things a person could gain notoriety for, being a doppelgänger for Donald Trump is probably not very high on the list. Think about it. Who wants to look like the dotard in chief, all orange spray tan and squinty-eyed, with curiously attached hairpiece (that is a hairpiece, right?) flopping every which way…

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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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