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Just Kidding, We Lied: White House Admits There’s No Evidence of Voter Fraud in 2016 Election
Remember how, in the days leading up to the 2016 election, when it seemed like Donald Trump might lose to Hillary Clinton, he kept insinuating that there was some mass voter-fraud scheme happening? Remember how, even after he won, he held on to that myth and created a controversial voter-fraud commission to investigate it? Then…
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In Other News, Your President Is Still Racist
If you are one of those people who, like Omarosa Manigault Newman, believe that Donald Trump is not a racist, white-nationalist-enabling, bumbling idiot—he has given you yet another piece of evidence to sway your way of thinking. The Washington Post reports that during a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump spat…
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How Do You Label Your Sexuality? How Do You Define It?
When it comes to sexuality or sexual orientation, “straight” and “gay” have become somewhat simplistic in a sea of new terms that provide complex definitions for the varying ways in which people describe themselves. You can be gay and monogamous or straight and polyamorous. The way we define our sexuality is as unique as the…
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Immigration Agents Target 100 7-Eleven Stores Across the Country in 1 Day
Before dawn on Wednesday, seven immigration agents entered a 7-Eleven convenience store in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles and made arriving customers and a beer-delivery driver wait outside while they conducted a “federal inspection.” According to the Associated Press, that inspection was actually an employment audit. The agents verified that the cashier had a…
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#NetNeutrality: The Fight for an Open and Free Internet Continues Across the Country
Nearly a month after the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the rules of net neutrality, lawmakers across the country are doing what they can to keep the internet open and free. In California, this comes in the form of Senate Bill 460. NBC Bay Area reports that the California Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality…
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Nipsey Hussle, Homophobia and Toxic Black Masculinity
What is the gay “agenda”? Can you point me to the document that explains and outlines it? What is the goal of the gay agenda? How is it that with everything else going on, people want to point to the gay agenda as the thing that is tearing the black community apart? Those questions are…
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This Is Not a Drill: Living Single Starts Streaming on Hulu Thursday, Jan. 11
Mama, we made it! Our internet-streaming-service dreams have finally come true. Living Single, the groundbreaking ’90s television show starring Queen Latifah, will begin streaming on Hulu on Thursday. Hulu made the announcement Tuesday evening from its official Twitter account, saying, “It’s a ’90s kind of world. Again. Living Single, the entire series, streams January 11,…
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Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Appointed to Senate Judiciary Committee
Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) were appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. This is only the second time in the 201-year history of the committee that anyone black has served on it, and the first time there have been two black people on the committee at once. Mark this down…
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ICYMI: Oprah Wants Us All to Remember Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor should never be forgotten; Oprah says so. Unless you have been hiding under a rock or a pile of work for the last two days, you may have already heard Oprah deliver what some are saying may have been a speech hinting at her candidacy for presidency in 2020. There are mixed opinions on…
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Blues and R&B Legend Denise LaSalle Dead at 78
R&B legend Denise LaSalle, known for her hit songs “Trapped by a Thing Called Love” and “Now Run and Tell That,” died Tuesday in Jackson, Tenn. She was 78. Family spokesman Howard Rambsy confirmed LaSalle’s death via email with the Jackson Sun. Born Ora Denise Allen in 1939, according to the Clarion Ledger, LaSalle rose…
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