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Proud Boys Leader Arrested and Charged With Burning BLM Banner Displayed in Black DC Church
On Monday, The Root reported that church officials from several congregations in Washington, D.C., have requested that local police provide extra protection ahead of the whiney and delusional white people convention scheduled for later this week in protest of the election results. The request was made amid a similar Dec. 12 protest during which mobs…
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Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin Hospitalized With COVID-19
Five days after announcing that he tested positive for the coronavirus, Birmingham, Ala., Mayor Randall Woodfin has been hospitalized with COVID-19 complications. The announcement came just days after Woodfin lost his grandmother to the disease. “COVID-19 has made its way to my doorstep,” wrote Woodfin in a Wednesday tweet revealing that he was suffering from…
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Raiders Running Back Josh Jacobs Arrested, Charged With DUI After Single-Car Collision In Las Vegas
On the field, Josh Jacobs of the Las Vegas Raiders is a shifty running back whose reliability has gone unquestioned since he entered the league in 2019. But off the field, it sounds like the 22-year-old still has plenty of growing up to do after an unfortunate brush with the law. From NFL.com: Raiders running…
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Claim Notices Filed by Victims of Kyle Rittenhouse Allege Negligence on Behalf of Kenosha Police and Sheriff’s Department, Seek $20 Million in Damages
Separate claim notices filed by both a victim of Kyle Rittenhouse and the family of another could potentially put the Kenosha Police Department and the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department on the hook for up to $20 million in damages. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the claims were filed by the parents of Anthony Huber,…
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Oregon COVID-19 Relief Funds Reserved for Underserved Black People in Jeopardy Due to Lawsuits
After the first round of Paycheck Protection Program loans meant to help small businesses survive shutdowns due to the pandemic went out last year, report after report after report documented how Black businesses were being ignored. The state of Oregon has been trying to do something to ensure that racism doesn’t play a part in…
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Candace Owens Is Big Mad at Netflix and Uber Eats for Having Black Categories, Calls it 'Segregation'
Candace “If Miss Millie Were Black” Owens stays trying it, doesn’t she? This housing complex negro (because sometimes a simple “house negro” isn’t enough to describe it) is so hellbent on getting “I don’t see color” white people to pat her white supremacist lapdog-ass on the head that she’s bringing in 2021 by resurrecting old…
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Churches in Washington DC Request Police Protection Ahead of Pro-Trump Protest, File Lawsuit Against Proud Boys Over Vandalism During Previous Protest
A group of churches in Washington DC has requested local police provide extra protection ahead of a protest against the election results scheduled for later this week. How’s that saying go again? New year, same old bullshit? According to NBC Washington, the request comes after a similar protest on Dec. 12 resulted in a Black…
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'I Feel Like I'm Finna Die': Why Everyone in Alabama's Prison System Has a Death Sentence [Updated]
For a portion of his 22 years, Bernard Jemison has been incarcerated at Kilby Correctional Facility, a maximum-security penitentiary located just outside of Montgomery, Ala. According to Alabama Department of Corrections documents reviewed by The Root, in September, 1031 men were housed in a prison designed to hold 440 men, an occupancy rate of 234…
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Attorneys for Gregory and Travis McMichael Request That Ahmaud Arbery Not Be Called a ‘Victim’ in Court
Recent motions filed by attorneys for Gregory and Travis McMichael—the father and son accused of chasing down and fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery near Brunswick, Ga., on February 23, 2020—appear to have one agenda in mind: Remove all indications of Arbery’s very humanity. In the motions filed on Dec. 30 and 31, not only are the…
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Zoë Kravitz Files for Divorce After 18 Months of Marriage to Karl Glusman
It’s 2021 and love is fizzling out of the new year’s air so far—at least for one celebrity couple. Zoë Kravitz has filed for divorce from fellow actor Karl Glusman, after 18 months of marriage. Kravitz’s rep confirmed the news to People on Saturday. While the news began to widely circulate on January 3, coincidentally…