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These 15 Beloved White Hollywood Icons Have a Racist Past
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Cops Is Back in Production After Being Canceled Amid Police Violence Protests…and I Just Want to Know Who Asked for This?
I’ve always hated Cops. (The TV show, not actual police officers. Although, actually…never mind.) Shows like Cops and Live PD have never done anything but make entertainers out of officers and paint them as heroes while exploiting civilians—often poor Black people—by filming them at the some of the lowest points in their lives. So when…
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Breonna Taylor’s Family Calls for Kentucky Governor to Dump AG Daniel Cameron, Assign New Special Prosecutor to Case
Days after Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron released 15 hours of audio from grand jury proceedings related to the killing of Breonna Taylor, attorneys for Taylor’s family are calling for Gov. Andy Beshear to appoint a new special prosecutor. As ABC News reports, Taylor’s family wants the case against the Louisville Metro Police who fatally…
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President Trump's Health Is Reportedly Much Worse Than the White House Indicated. Here's Some Sneakers I Own.
These are really comfortable. These too. These are fun. I love the gold here. Classic.
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NC City Council to Vote on Formal Apology for Police Complicity, White Supremacist Violence During 'Greensboro Massacre'
There is little marking the violence that broke out in Greensboro, N.C., that fall day in 1979, just a simple highway marker sitting at an intersection: “Ku Klux Klan members and American Nazis, on Nov. 3, 1979, shot and killed five Communist Workers Party members one-tenth mile north.” More than 40 years after the killing,…
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Black Man Who Spoke in Support of Police Fatally Shot by Texas Police Officer
A Black man was fatally shot by a police officer at a gas station in Wolfe City, Texas, Saturday night, and witnesses say it happened while he was attempting to intervene in a domestic situation. According to the man’s family, he was a city worker who was beloved in his community, but what makes this…
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Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Known for Co-Starring in Several Spike Lee Films, Fatally Shot in Atlanta [Updated]
We are saddened to report that actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd was shot and killed over the weekend in southwest Atlanta. He was 70 years old. Spike Lee announced the tragic news via his Instagram page on Sunday. “I’m so sad to announce the tragic murder of our beloved brother Thomas Jefferson Byrd last night in…
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Government Accountability Office to Investigate Claims of Systemic Racism in Veteran Affairs
The revelation that nearly 80 percent of workers surveyed at Veterans Affairs believe there is widespread racism throughout the federal agency has prompted an investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office into the reports of discrimination. The GAO is a non-partisan congressional watchdog body charged with auditing federal institutions. Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Maas.) and…
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Grand Jury Audio in Breonna Taylor Case Proves LMPD and Witnesses Had Different Stories, but Omits Daniel Cameron's Recommendations to Jurors
At the behest of a juror involved in grand jury proceedings into the killing of Breonna Taylor by officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD), Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron on Friday delivered recordings of the deliberations, which show there were in fact conflicting stories between the witnesses on the night of the shooting…
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Reports: Cam Newton Has Tested Positive for COVID-19, Won't Play With the Patriots in Week 4 Game Against the Chiefs
New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton is reported to have tested positive for coronavirus, and as a result will not play in the game between the team and the Kansas City Chiefs planned for this week. The Patriots announced on Saturday that one of their players had tested positive for COVID-19 and had immediately entered…
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Bob Gibson, Hall of Famer from the Cardinals, Has Died at 84
Bob Gibson, the powerful former pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and a National Baseball Hall of Famer, died on Friday at 84 years old from pancreatic cancer. Gibson had been in hospice care for over a year in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Playing for the Cadinals his…