Navy SEALs Who Harassed Black Teammate With Racist ‘Slave’ and ‘Monkey’ Memes Finally ‘Disciplined’
Black Parkland School Shooting Survivor Dies 7 Years After Tragedy
Black America Reacts To Nicki Minaj’s Surprise Appearance With Erika Kirk
TikToker Breaks Down the One Way Black Immigrants Mess Up When Moving to U.S.
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A Reminder That Snoop Dogg Is a Sellout
Snoop Dogg has several iconic and hateful songs that many people know and love, and his upcoming Verzuz battle against DMX will induce nostalgia in those moved by that sort of thing. He is also a sellout who was still chummy enough with Donald Trump in 2011 to appear on a Comedy Central roast of…
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Players Dish on What It's Like to be Black in MLB: 'Black Players Have Always Felt That They Had to Conform'
I don’t really watch baseball, in part because there was plenty of racism surrounding my own experiences with the sport as a youth. And as it turns out, Major League Baseball isn’t much different, at least according to a new report from ESPN. Reporter Marly Rivera chopped it up with a few current and former…
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Virginia Police Launch Investigation Into KKK Flyers Found in Mailboxes Across Multiple Counties
Residents across the state of Virginia found flyers in or around their mailboxes sent by a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The message on the flyers calls for “100% Americanism” and decries the number of white people who support the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, Virginia police are investigating the matter which stretches across…
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Jay-Z, Rihanna and More Urge Department of Justice to Re-Examine Death of Danroy 'DJ' Henry
In a new letter sent to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Pharrell Williams, Taraji P. Henson, Kerry Washington and other celebrities demand that the Department of Justice re-examines the death of Danroy “DJ” Henry, a Black Pace University student who was shot and killed by a white cop in 2010. “This agonizing case…
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A Liberal North Carolina Town Has Unanimously Voted to Give Its Black Residents Reparations
Phew, 2020 sure is something different. In a unanimous decision, Asheville, N.C.’s City Council has voted to give reparations to its Black residents. The historic 7-0 vote was reached on Tuesday night, reports the Citizen Times, a USA Today affiliate. The measure comes with a public apology for the city’s participation in enslaving Africans and…
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The Story of a Black Teenage Girl Incarcerated for Not Doing Her Online Schoolwork Shows Us Just How Big Our Criminal Justice Problem Is
As activists have sustained calls for a radical transformation of our nation’s criminal justice system over the last several weeks, many among us are reimagining what necessary interventions ought to look like, absent the police. How can we resolve domestic issues, for instance, without having to call 911? One idea that’s been frequently tossed around…
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California Man Charged With Hate Crime for Driving Into a Crowd of Black People
Not to continue to belabor the point, but white people have lost their goddamn minds, folks. If it’s not going full Karen in a Target over face masks or sending emails to my colleagues going “Not all white people,” it’s committing whole ass crimes like driving a car into a crowd of Black people. According…
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Thanks to the 'Stephon Clark Law,' a San Diego Police Officer Is Charged With Murder After Fatally Shooting Mentally Disabled Man
In May, 36-year-old Nicholas Bils was fatally shot by a San Diego police officer while he was fleeing police custody. Bils—who has a history of severe mental illness—was unarmed when police officers gave chase. On Monday, prosecutors announced that the officer who shot and killed Bils has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder. The…
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Tory Lanez Arrested for Gun Possession Following Alleged Argument, Megan Thee Stallion Taken to Hospital for Foot Injury
It looks like Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion weren’t exactly on lockdown this weekend, and things escalated quickly. According to TMZ, cops arrived at the scene Sunday after an alleged argument occurred outside of a house party. When they arrived, they found a gun inside Lanez’s car. Megan and another woman were passengers in…