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  • The Disrespect: GOP Street Artist Replaces Michael Myers With Maxine Waters on a Halloween Billboard

    The latest iteration of Halloween is in theaters right now, and billboards advertising the film are spread across cities everywhere—including Los Angeles. One Los Angeles billboard was taken over by conservative street artist Sabo who, according to the Hollywood Reporter, wanted to send a message to “uncivil Democrats.” Sabo chose a billboard on Pico Boulevard,…

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  • Ebony Still Owes. Damn

    I spent a good amount of the Saturdays of my formative years sitting in beauty salons with my mother, thumbing through issues of Ebony and Jet magazines while I waited in between services. Those magazines represented everything about blackness and black media to me. They were “for us by us” as the motto goes. That…

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  • #NetNeutrality: Turns Out 99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Wanted to Keep the Internet Open

    As the Federal Communications Commission prepared to repeal the laws of net neutrality last year, 22 million comments were left on its website expressing arguments either for or against keeping the open internet protected and in place. A new report says that 99.7 percent of the unique comments left on the agency’s site were pro-net…

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  • #BadThingsToTellPolice Is Trending on Twitter Right Now

    You know what’s a bad thing to tell the police? “Hello, police? There’s a black person standing/sitting/talking/living (in other words, minding their own business) here, and I’m scared/uncomfortable/suspicious of why they are here (because I don’t believe black people belong in otherwise white spaces). Send help.”

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  • Pay Attention: They Are Trying to Keep You From Voting

    Are you registered to vote? Have you confirmed that your voter registration is valid and ready to go for Election Day? Even if you think you are positively sure everything is OK with your registration, double-check it again—it’s imperative that you do. According to a report by Salon, voters in Georgia stand a 1 in…

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  • Donald Trump Thinks Racial Profiling Will Solve Gun Violence in Chicago

    During a taxpayer-funded White House trip to Orlando, Fla., Donald Trump told a group of police officers from all across the country that law enforcement in Chicago should start the slave patrols back up again implement a “stop and frisk” policy if they want to put an end to the gun violence that plagues the…

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  • The Metaphor Club Is Black, Creative and Defying the Gentrification of Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles

    As a black creative living and working in Los Angeles, the search to find spaces that both accommodate my lifestyle and give me the fellowship and creative boost I need can be hard and often times disappointing. Traditional coworking spaces are everywhere in L.A., but they are expensive and can be just as isolating as…

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  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders Trumpslains the President's Mocking of Christine Blasey Ford

    Both Donald Trump and his proxy, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, continue their public defense of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In the latest White House press briefing, Sanders also goes so far as to say defend the president’s mocking of Christine Blasey Ford during a rally in Southaven, Miss., Tuesday. Sanders opened…

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  • Brett Kavanaugh Thinks Being a Virgin Means You Can’t Sexually Assault Anyone

    If you were up for an appointment to the United States Supreme Court and a woman you knew as a teen in high school came forward to accuse you of sexual assault, would you dodge the very idea of an FBI investigation? And if after the first investigation you thought you didn’t need, would you…

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  • Cosby Accusers May Not Testify at Sentencing Hearing, Judge Says

    On Monday, Bill Cosby is set to be sentenced in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University administrator Andrea Constand in 2004. Prosecutors were hoping to have additional women who have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct to testify at his sentencing hearing, but the judge in the…

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