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If the National Archives Blurs Anti-Trump Speech From Its Exhibits, Is It Really an Archive?
There’s a large 49-by-69-inch photograph in the National Archives Museum in Washington D.C. which celebrates the centennial of women’s suffrage by depicting the massive crowd that filled Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the Women’s March on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Viewed from another angle, it shifts to show a 1913…
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A Pilot and a Racist Trump Supporter All Wrapped in One: #MAGA Pilot Arrested for Racist Airport Graffiti
I mean…not that we needed yet another story tying Trump support to good-old-fashioned American racism, but we got one via a 53-year-old pilot for Endeavor Air, a regional subsidiary of Delta, in today’s “Yep, Water is Still Wet as Hell” news. James E. Dees, whose name was probably not intentionally made to sound eerily similar…
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Doris ‘Dorie’ Miller to be Honored by Navy With Aircraft Carrier in His Name
Black History Month is kicking off early this year as one of our lesser mentioned black American heroes gets honored by the U.S. Navy. World War II hero and Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller will have a new aircraft carrier named for him according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. The announcement is expected to be…
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Stephen King Speaks on Diversity. Me, Ava DuVernay and Black People, in General, Need Him to Zip It
You know, maybe all the white Hollywood insiders just need to keep diversity’s name out their mouths and just yield the floor to the writers, directors, and actors of color who actually have to deal with the lack thereof. Iconic author Stephen King took to Twitter on Tuesday and came dangerously close to traveling in…
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SF Activists Speak Out After 3 Black Women Are Killed Within a Month
Monday, San Francisco city and community leaders gathered in the Tenderloin district for a call for action in the wake of three homicides where black women were killed within a month’s time. “Any homicide in the city is difficult and inexcusable,” activist Geoffrea Morris told Fox 2 KTVU, “but when we look at the last…
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Spike Lee for President: Lee Named First Black Jury Head of Cannes Film Festival
Imagine a world where Spike Lee was President of the United States. I mean, I’d say anything goes now that we have Donald “Orange Julius Geezer” Trump in the White House, so just imagine it. I can see it now: President Spike Lee at a press conference wilding out over Republican efforts to block his…
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Pastor John Gray Pledges, ‘I’ll See You Next Week, and the Next Week After That’ While Megachurch Faces Eviction
If the Church of Beyoncé was to DM Pastor John Gray of Relentless Church, they might ask, “Sir, have you paid your bills? Have you paid your telephone bill, Have you paid your automo-bill? Then, maybe Relentless can chill.” Ok, that was a bad joke, but I laughed when I thought of it. Anyway… Early…
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Black Woman Dies After Waiting Hours in ER for Help
It is often suggested that women, especially black women, go ignored and/or unseen due to implicit bias in the American healthcare system. Such may have been the case for Tashonna Ward, a 25-year-old daycare teacher from Milwaukee who died Jan. 2 while trying to find a doctor to help her, USA Today reports. Ward waited…
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Officer’s Lie Leads to a Man’s Suicide
It’s often argued that it’s a good thing that police officers are allowed to lie while interrogating suspects or while investigating a crime. Because if it helps solve said crime, what’s the harm? It’s far too rarely considered that giving cops free rein to tell whatever lie they want, so long as it aids their…
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Kerry Rides for Biden on Iraq War Vote, Says It Was All Bush’s Fault
During a Friday interview in Muscatine, Iowa, former Secretary of State John Kerry put a huge cape on for former vice president Joe Biden in defending the Democratic candidate’s Iraq war vote, NBC News reported. The reporter asked Kerry how he would respond to attacks by one of Biden’s opponents, who has seen a recent…
