Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
Should Black Americans Care That Trump Is Targeting African Nations For Deportation After Years of Africans Being So Damn Disrespectful To Us?
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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Single-Minded: When Does (Adult) Life Begin?
There will always be deadly debate over when life begins. Conception? Birth? 40? But the start line to adulthood is always drawn at 18—all right 21, if you’re lucky, and maybe 30, if you’re late. What no one talks about is the change that has to happen. The switch that someone (or something) has to…
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When the Police Fail, Then What?
“National Guard troops patrolled the streets of Chicago’s Negro West Side last night and early today. For the first time in four nights there was no major violence in the riot-torn ghetto area.” That was the first paragraph of a New York Times article that ran on Saturday, July 16, 1966. If Illinois state representatives…
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Call Me Ms. Coach
Washington D.C.’s Calvin Coolidge High School needed a new varsity head football coach. From a pool of 15 well-qualified applicants, the school selected a confident leader with five years of professional football experience as a wide receiver and kick returner. The new coach is known as a no-nonsense teacher at Coolidge and had previously been…
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Rand Paul Probably Isn't Racist–Or Libertarian
That giant sucking sound you hear is the sound of the great debate promised by Rand Paul’s quixotic Senate candidacy slowly circling the drain. After all, why would anyone bother to sort through deficits, taxes and the role of modern American government? They can just go on The Rachel Maddow Show and have a good,…
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Either Go to Bed, Or Eat Everything in the House
I want birthday cake. Maybe a big dish of ice cream. Nachos with lots of jalapenos would be good right about now, too. My eyes are closed as I type this because it’s midday and I’m fading, fast. I swore I’d never pull another all-nighter, but a client’s grant application was due, and it’s for…
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Off-Duty Officer Gunned Down in Chicago
Sad story out of Chicago. Thomas Wortham, a Chicago police officer, was killed in front of his parents’ home during an attempted robbery Officer Thomas Wortham IV and his father, a retired Chicago police sergeant, exchanged gunfire with the robbers, sources said. One of the robbers was killed and another was critically wounded, authorities said.…
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Alleged Dirty Look Leads to More Tragedy
While authorities try to figure out what led to the shooting death of Aiyana Jones, what is know is they were brought to the house in search of Chauncey Lewis Owens, a man suspected of gunning down a seventeen-year-old boy in a liquor store parking lot, allegedly for looking at him the wrong way Wayne…
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Quick Clips: Racial Wealth Gap Soars for American Families
According to a Brandeis University studied scooped by the Harvard Business Review White American families’ median wealth (not including home equity) grew from $22,000 to $100,000 over the 23-year period ending in 2007, while African-American families’ median wealth remained virtually flat at just a few thousand dollars, according to a new study led by Thomas…
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Rand Paul Stance on Segregation Has Antique Quality to It
Rand Paul has some rather out-of-date thoughts on segregation and Professor Blair L.M. Kelley intellectually throat chops him for them on Salon It seems as though Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Kentucky, son of Texas Rep. Ron Paul, and self-proclaimed representative of the Tea Party movement, has some serious…