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‘Because He’s Black’: New Mexico Store Clerk Calls Police on College Student Buying Snacks
Are you as tired of hearing these stories as we are? Do you understand how horrible it is that black people can’t even mind their own business and buy snacks in peace without people weaponizing the police against them? At what point are these phone calls going to be declared a crime? At what point…
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Paul Manafort Drops His Lawsuit Against Robert Mueller Just as His Own Criminal Trial Begins
The criminal trial for Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort began Tuesday morning in a federal court in Alexandria, Va. It is the first trial to come out of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Things moved very quickly on the first day of court. The…
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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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Texas Mom Shoots Would-Be Carjacker After He Tries to Steal Vehicle With Her Children Inside
A would-be carjacker in Dallas picked the right one on Wednesday when he jumped into a car with the 2- and 4-year-old sons of a black mother in the back seat. When the man refused to get out of her car, he caught a bullet to the face for his trouble. Michelle Booker-Hicks told Fox…
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Take Off Your Shoes, Take Out Your Snacks: TSA Is Searching Everything
I went to Las Vegas at the beginning of last month. I flew because the drive from L.A. to Vegas has become so long and tedious; it’s so not worth it. Going through Transportation Security Administration screening—or ‘TSA theater’ as I like to call it—is a(n) (un)necessary annoyance every time we travel. We have to…
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#PermitPatty Resigns From Her Cannabis Company Amid Blowback From Bullying an 8-Year-Old
In a recent interview with NBC News, Alison Ettel—the rogue canine-cannabis dealer who has been dubbed #PermitPatty by the unrelenting and unforgiving internet—said that she regrets how she handled the situation with her 8-year-old black neighbor who was selling bottled water in order to earn money for a trip to Disneyland. Ettel said that if…
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#Flint: Lead Levels Remain Unchanged; Michigan Hands Water-Testing Over to the City
As of Wednesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have gone 1,518 days without a clean and stable water system in their city. The latest preliminary testing results show that the lead levels in the water have remained unchanged from the last six months of 2017, and the state has given notice that it is handing…
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Disney and Comcast Set to Go Into Bidding War Over 21st Century Fox
When a federal judge ruled Tuesday that AT&T could purchase Time Warner for the whopping sum of $85 billion, many predicted that the case would pave the way for other such mergers, including a potential bidding war over the assets of 21st Century Fox. On Wednesday, those predictions came true as Comcast threw its hat…
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Federal Judge Rules AT&T Can Purchase Time Warner for $85 Billion
When Makan Delrahim—head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division—filed a federal lawsuit in November to prevent AT&T’s $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, questions arose as to whether the former White House counsel was unduly influenced by Donald Trump’s seemingly personal vendetta against CNN, a company owned by Time Warner. The DOJ insisted…
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White Family Beats Down 2 Police Officers. Miraculously, No One Gets Shot
This is one of those stories where, if I were writing it about a black family, it would have an entirely different headline and an entirely different outcome, because that’s how these things work in our society right now. A husband, wife, their son and an unidentified juvenile relative were all arrested in Middle River,…
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