New Details Emerge After ‘Lion King’ Broadway Star Found Fatally Stabbed Days Before Christmas
How Trump’s Power is Crumbling and The Resistance is Growing
Trump’s Christmas Day Airstrikes in Nigeria Spark Outrage and Divide
Black Things to Do in New York City This Holiday
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Anti-Chocolate Ice Cream Man Is the First to Be Sued Under New York Law Against Filing a False ‘Race Based’ Police Report
Last summer, a group of Black peaceful protesters gathered outside an ice cream shop in upstate New York to protest its owner, David Elmendorf, for allegedly sending a series of racist texts and claiming he wouldn’t hire a Black person at the shop. Elmendorf responded by calling the police, claiming they threatened to shoot him.…
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George Floyd's Family Reaches Record $27 Million Settlement Agreement With Minneapolis
The family of George Floyd settled a civil lawsuit on Friday after the Minneapolis City Council approved what the family’s attorneys are calling the “largest pre-trial civil rights wrongful death settlement in U.S history.” On Friday, during a closed session, the City Council unanimously approved a measure to pay Floyd’s family $27 million for the…
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It Doesn't Feel Like It's Been a Year
So I was soft-hedging off my man because I knew that the ball-hander would be coming off the screen looking to pass, not shoot. I’d played with him—and most of the rest of the people on the court that evening at LA Fitness—enough to know his tendencies. Whether he liked to turn to his right…
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Texas Police Officer Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of Michael Ramos
The April 2020 shooting death of Michael Ramos in Austin, Texas, was one of those events that remind us that “back the blue” enthusiasts don’t know what they’re talking about when they say that as long as we follow police instructions, we are sure to walk away from a police confrontation alive and unscathed. It’s…
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Texas Student Says Teacher Gave White Students the Go-Ahead to Use the N-Word
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: A lot of white teachers have no business whatsoever teaching Black students. A Black mother in San Marcos, Texas, has filed a complaint with the San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District over an incident involving her daughter and a teacher who allegedly told her white students…
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Stacey Dash Denounces Trump and Fox News and Is Now Sunken Place-Free. Well, Not Really, but Kind of…Man, Just Read
Welp, it happened, Black people: Stacey Dash was finally able to Get Out. That’s right, the been-Clueless actor and former Fox Noose…I mean, News contributor has notified the sunken place that she will be vacating the premises ASAP and to please forward all of her mail to Herschel Walker. Dash has decided she will no…