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Gospel Community Mourns the Loss of Legendary Singer Rance Allen: 'He Will Surely Enrich the Heavenly Choir'
This one hurts. On Saturday morning came the news that Bishop Rance Allen, the legendary gospel singer and minister who gave us “Something About the Name of James” and could sing circles around every single last one of your favorites, had transitioned. He was 71. On The Rance Allen Group’s Facebook page, Ellen Allen, Allen’s…
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If Trump Loses, Thank Black People. If He Wins, Blame White People
When the dust settles and a winner of the presidential election is declared tomorrow night or some time in 2023, the results will immediately be proceeded by a vast and annoying ecosystem of discourse attempting to find answers, give thanks, and assign blame. Fortunately, we do not have to wait that long to perform those…
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Texas Supreme Court Rejects GOP Group’s Request to Purge More Than 100,000 Cast Ballots Days Before the Election
In today’s episode of You Know…I’m Starting to Think Republicans Really Don’t Want Democrats Voting, on Sunday, the Texas Supreme Court rejected a request from a group of Republican activists and candidates to throw out well over 100,000 ballots cast from drive-thru polling sites in largely Democratic Harris County. Here’s how drive-thru voting works as…
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Police Pepper Spray Men, Women, and Children Marching to the Polls in North Carolina
When Trump said Make America Great Again, many of us wondered about the specifics of the great past he was seeking to bring the country back to. Was it when the law designated people with melanin as second-class citizens? Was it when the state would brutally subdue those people at will, by cracking skulls and…
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Drivers Flying Trump Flags Surround Biden-Harris Campaign Vehicles on Texas Highway, Attempt To Run Bus off the Road
After a year that’s seen white men increasingly using their vehicles to run into people whose politics they don’t agree with, I guess it shouldn’t surprise us that similar vehicular-violence is revving up in the little time left before Election Day. But the caravan of Trump supporters who surrounded Biden-Harris campaign vehicles on a highway…
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If You Still Weren't Sure That Racism Is Pervasive Among Cops: Meet The Louisiana State Police
Though this year (this horrid, horrid year) has been punctuated with ever-multiplying police killings of Black people, you may be one of the depressing faction of Americans who are steadfastly-dedicated to denying that systemic racism is a problem with law enforcement in this country—or in this country at all. Luckily, a bunch of newly released…
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After Philadelphia Police Yank Woman Out of Her Car and Attack Her, Police Union Uses Her Son in Propaganda Photo
If the events of the current year haven’t driven the point home, cops are fucking trash. They’re also fucking liars. The latest instance of cops being trash-ass liars occurred in Philadelphia, where cops yanked a Black woman out of her car, attacked her, and then used her son in what was basically a propaganda photo.…
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Walmart Removed Guns and Ammo From Sales Floor for Fear of Post-Election Civil Unrest—but Suddenly Reversed Decision
No matter how next Tuesday turns out, the days and weeks following Election Day are going to be wild. Citing fears of civil unrest, Walmart made the decision to remove guns and ammo from the sales floor of all its stores, only to strangely quickly reverse it. CBS News reports that the company previously did…
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Too Many Black Men Wish to Be White, and That's a Problem the Election Won't End
When attempting to explain, during a university-sponsored book talk a few weeks ago, the difference between truth and honesty to the students, I posed a scenario where Jeff Bezos decided to buy a house on my block and live there. With him as my new neighbor, if you took the newly combined net worth of…