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Trump Just Took His Most Viciously Racist Shot at the Obamas to Date
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Quinn Coleman, Capitol Records Executive, DJ and Son of Debra Lee, Dies at 31
Quinn Coleman, the Senior Director of A&R at Capitol Records and son of former BET Chairman and CEO Debra Lee, has died at the age of 31, Billboard reports. Coleman’s cause of death hasn’t been confirmed at this time. “Quinn was a loving son, brother, cousin and friend, a passionate DJ and A&R executive with…
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Kentucky Police Union Predictably Mad Over 'Breonna's Law,' a Bill That Would Ban No-Knock Warrants Statewide
Police unions are the fucking worst. Any request for cops to do their job even slightly more responsibly is met with what can only be described as pouting and temper tantrums. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police, who are big mad over perfectly reasonable legislation to ban the use of no-knock warrants…
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White Man in Missouri Wanted After Calling Black Woman the N-Word and Shooting Her
In Missouri, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department is searching for a man who called a Black woman the n-word multiple times before pistol-whipping and shooting her. April Brown, the victim, was visiting a friend in Arnold, Mo., on Aug. 6 when the incident occurred, according to KSDK. After getting into an argument with one of her…
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Diamond and Silk Call Out Fox News' Racism After They Got Fired as 2020 Continues to be Raggedy AF
The Amos ‘n’ Andy versions of The Simpsons characters Patty and Selma—you might know them as Sunken Place landlords Diamond and Silk—are apparently finally convinced that racism is real. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Damn, the Black Lives Matter movement is going so hard it even got through to Auntie Ruckus and discount Candace…
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As US Death Toll Hit 1,000 Per Day, New Study Says COVID-19 Has Become Third Leading Cause of Death for Black People
COVID-19 has taken an unrelenting toll on this country in the five months since the pandemic began. As deaths hit 1,000 per day over the last month, new data suggests that COVID-19 has become the third leading cause of death for Black people. According to CBS News, a new study from the Brookings Institution shows…
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3 Mississippi Police Officers Charged With Murder in Death of Elderly Black Man
In Jackson, Miss., three police officers accused of causing the death of a 61-year-old Black man on January 13, 2019, are now charged with second-degree murder. From CNN: Desmond Barney, 31; Lincoln Lampley, 33; and Anthony Fox, 35 were indicted in the January 2019 death of George Robinson, according to court documents filed last week.…
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2 Men Indicted on Murder Charge in Death of Run-D.M.C.'s Jam Master Jay [Updated]
It’s been nearly 18 years since the legendary D.J. from the iconic rap group Run-DMC was gunned down in his recording studio in Queens, N.Y., on October 30, 2002. Now, two men have been arrested and charged with the killing of Jason Mizell, also known by hip-hop enthusiasts all over the world as Jam Master…
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Abolish MAGA Parody Hats
Conceding even the tiniest thing to a hateful and violent twerp like our president feels like a total defeat. Unfortunately, I must admit that there are (at least) three zeitgeist-related places that he has “won”—where his influence has been total and, possibly, irreversible. I’ve never been a kumbaya-ass nigga who gave any proper shits about…
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10 Staffers From Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith's Westbrook Productions Test Positive for COVID-19
COVID-19 doesn’t seem to be letting up any time soon because people won’t listen, and it appears that the virus has found its way to Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s production company. According to a statement from a Westbrook Productions spokesperson provided to Variety, 10 staffers on the set of an undisclosed Westbrook project tested…
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Kalamazoo, Mich., Officials Apologize for Arrest of Black Reporter Covering Violent White Nationalist Rally
Over the weekend, The Root reported on two separate white nationalist rallies—one in Stone Mountain, Ga., and one in Kalamazoo, Mich.—where groups of white people mad about various things were met by anti-racism counterprotesters who let the white supremacist MAGA-humpers know that the only thing they have to be mad about is their inability to…