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  • #Restaurants4Sarah: Where in the World Shall Sarah Huckabee Sanders Eat?

    Poor, poor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She works for a white supremacist who happens to be president of the United States. Consequently, a dining establishment chose not to host her. She boo-hooed about it on Twitter yesterday: Mind you, this is the same woman who stood her butt at the White House podium in June defending…

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  • Trial Finally Set for White Man Accused of Shooting at 3 Black Men After Hurricane Katrina

    A trial date has finally been set for a 55-year-old white man who was charged with shooting at three black men in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Authorities claim that Roland Bourgeois Jr. shot at three black men, wounding one, after he and others discussed protecting the Algiers neighborhood in New Orleans after Hurricane…

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  • Michelle Obama’s Memoir Will Be a ‘Rehumanization Effort’

    Former First lady Michelle Obama told the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference audience in New Orleans that her upcoming memoir, Becoming, will be a “rehumanization effort” in which she shares the “ordinariness of a very extraordinary story” that she hopes will give voice to people who feel voiceless, the Associated Press reports. The memoir,…

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  • Ransom Text Sent to Relatives of Missing Michigan Child

    The family of a missing Michigan teenager received a text demanding that a ransom be paid for the girl’s safe return. According to a Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office news release, Shanijah Christionna Payne, 14, was last seen Thursday around 4:30 p.m. at her home in Ypsilanti Township. When Shanijah didn’t come home, her mother and…

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  • Either Tom Arnold Is Selling Us Wolf Tickets or Donald Trump Is in a World of Trouble

    Will Tom Arnold finally get us those pee-pee tapes of Donald Trump that allegedly exist? The ones of him in a Moscow hotel with Russian sex workers? Or tapes of him allegedly using the n-word during The Apprentice? Well, Arnold told CNN that he plans on spending this weekend with Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney…

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  • 22 Injured at Trenton, NJ, Arts-Festival Shooting 

    A 13-year-old boy is among the 22 people injured after a shooter opened fire at a 24-hour arts festival in Trenton, N.J., early Sunday around 2:45 a.m. The suspect, a 33-year-old man, is reportedly dead and another suspect has been taken into custody, according to CNN. The shooting may have started with a “neighborhood beef”…

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  • Roger Stone Claims Russian National Offered ‘Dirt’ on Hillary Clinton in Exchange for $2 Million 

    Roger Stone said that a Russian national approached him in May 2016 with damaging information about Hillary Clinton and wanted $2 million in exchange, the Washington Post reports. Calling himself Henry Greenberg, the man offered compromising information on Clinton, Donald Trump’s presumptive general election Democratic opponent at the time, but did not detail exactly what…

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  • ER Doctor Suspended After Mocking Patient Suffering From Anxiety Attack

    An emergency room physician has been suspended after a video of her mocking a patient claiming to be suffering from an anxiety attack was posted to Facebook, according to SFGate. In the video, Dr. Beth Keegstra of El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos, Calif., is seen doubting Samuel Bardwell’s account of what happened to him,…

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  • Washington, DC, Is Being Sued for Gentrification 

    A civil rights lawyer is suing Washington, D.C., for what he claims are the city’s discriminatory housing and urban-renewal policies that favor white millennial renters over long-standing black residents, according to DCist. Aristotle Theresa out of nearby Anacostia is representing three native Washingtonians and community group CARE. The lawsuit claims that the policies of the…

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  • Ex-Cambridge Analytica Employees Are Working on Trump’s 2020 Campaign 

    Former employees of Cambridge Analytica, the political firm that went down in flames over how it acquired Facebook users’ data, is now working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to the Associated Press. Cambridge Analytica’s former head of product, Matt Oczkowski, leads Data Propria, the new firm that is quietly working with Trump’s 2020…

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Terrell Jermaine Starr is a senior reporter at The Root. He is currently writing a book proposal that analyzes US-Russia relations from a black perspective.


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