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  • Cardi B Releases New Single and ‘Bartier Cardi’ Video Days Before Her Debut Album Is Set to Drop

    Belcalis Almanzar, professionally known as Cardi B, has been riding the radio waves for months now on feature after feature, as well as her own hit singles that have been dropped like so many breadcrumbs leading us up to the release of her debut album, Invasion of Privacy, this Friday, April 6. On Thursday the…

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  • #Flint: As 4-Year Anniversary Nears, Water in Schools Still Shows Elevated Lead Levels

    One thousand, four hundred and forty days. As of Tuesday, it has been 1,440 days since the residents of Flint, Mich., have had clean, safe water traveling through their pipes. In exactly three weeks, we will hit the four-year mark since the lead-contaminated-water crisis started. As of today, residents are still being told to use…

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  • Donald Trump Won’t Take His Foot Off Jeff Sessions’ Neck

    I’ll bet every morning, Jeff Sessions slaps at his alarm and curses it until it finally stops going off. He probably lies there for a few more minutes, his arm flung over his eyes in an attempt to block out any light. If he pretends it’s not morning again, it won’t be, and he can…

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  • Is Your Local News Station a Propaganda Machine? 

    Imagine if a giant media company carefully and meticulously began buying television stations all across the country, changing their programming and taking a particularly conservative, pro-Trump stance as they required all of their affiliates to run right-wing commentary segments—including commentary by former advisers of Donald Trump. This is essentially what is happening with Sinclair Broadcast…

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  • When He Talks That Talk and Walks That Walk

    Editor’s note: This is part 4 of a multipart series. Catch up with part 1 , part 2 and part 3. If I’ve said this before, it bears repeating: There is something to be said about a man who puts actions behind his words. Y’all know what I’m talking about. We’ve all been talked to…

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  • Sacramento, Calif., Sheriff Blames Deputy-Involved Hit-and-Run on ‘Professional Instigators’

    During a press conference Monday that was broadcast live via the department’s Facebook page, Sacramento County, Calif., Sheriff Scott Jones addressed the deputy-involved hit-and-run accident that left activist Wanda Cleveland, 61, injured Saturday night. The incident took place at the site of an otherwise peaceful protest over the shooting of 22-year-old Stephon Clark, who was…

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  • Why Is the Judge in the Meek Mill Case Such a Damn Hater?

    At this point in the game, I would like to reach out to Common Pleas Judge Genece Brinkley and ask her, “Who hurt you, sis? Was he a rapper who goes by the name of Meek Mill?” Brinkley sentenced the 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, to two to four years in…

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  • #StephonClark: Independent Autopsy Shows Police Shot Him 8 Times, 6 in the Back

    Contrary to initial police statements, Stephon Clark was not facing the officers who shot and killed him in the backyard of his grandmother’s house on March 18, according to an independent autopsy requested by the family. The autopsy, performed by pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, found that eight of the 20 shots fired at Clark hit…

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  • #StephonClark: Funeral Service Wrought With Emotion Honors a Young Man Taken Too Soon

    On Thursday the intersection of 47th Avenue and 44th Street in Sacramento, Calif., was filled with cars as family, friends and members of the community flocked to Bayside of South Sacramento Church to pay their last respects to 22-year-old Stephon Clark, who was gunned down by police officers March 18. It was like watching crowds…

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  • Sacramento, Calif., Police Department: They Are No Angels

    While the shooting death of Stephon Clark has made national headlines over the last two weeks, it is not the first questionable shooting the Sacrament, Calif., Police Department has had. It is just one in a long list of many questionable incidents or activities the department has been linked to. Each and every time there…

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