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Megan Thee Stallion Posted Photographic Proof of Her Gunshot Wound, Which She Shouldn’t Have Had to Do
Following a frustrating discourse about the pain and emotional trauma she endured, Megan Thee Stallion posted a picture of the gunshot wound she suffered in July while at a party with Tory Lanez, Variety reports. The Instagram post has since been taken down, but of course, the screenshots exist. Warning: The following photo is graphic…
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The Complete Guide to Defeating Voter Suppression
If you’re reading this, they don’t want to count your vote. If you, like many of our readers, are under the age of 40, progressive, live around non-white people or don’t have anyone in your circle of friends and family who owns a pair of wraparound sunglasses, Republicans are doing everything in their power to…
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Arkansas Governor and Lawmakers Unveil Proposed Hate Crime Legislation
Arkansas is one of three states that has no laws regarding hate crimes on its books, but a new bill recently introduced by the state’s legislature will hopefully change that. ABC News reports that Arkansas’ Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson was joined by the state’s attorney general and over two dozen legislators in revealing a proposed…
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Lawyers Believe New Video Proves Caine Rogers Wasn't a Threat to Atlanta Officer During 2016 Shooting
On Tuesday, a new video was released detailing the 2016 shooting death of an unarmed Black man by an Atlanta Police officer. AJC reports that lawyers for Deravis Caine Rogers’ family released the video in an attempt to get the City of Atlanta to settle an ongoing wrongful death lawsuit. The dashcam video shows former…
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Virginia Committee Approves Sweeping Police Reform Bill as the State Considers Reducing Penalty for Assaulting Police
Conservatives can be mad at the Black Lives Matter movement—the protests, the civil unrest, the calls to defund the police—all they want, but nobody can deny that the movement is beginning to yield results. A prime example of those results comes to us from the state of Virginia, where a legislative panel approved on Tuesday…
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Breonna Taylor Billboard Defaced With Red Paint Over Her Forehead Resembling Bullet Wound
If the calls for justice on behalf of any Black victim of police violence should be considered a no-brainer, we should definitely be uplifting the name of someone who was fatally shot during the botched serving of a drug warrant while unarmed and in the confines of her own home where no drugs were found.…
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Former Washington Running Back Derrius Guice Accused of Raping Two Women
Nearly two weeks after he was released by the Washington Football Team over disturbing charges of strangulation and assault and battery of his girlfriend, former LSU star Derrius Guice has been accused of rape by two former students who attended the same school. According to USA Today, two women allege that Guice raped them mere…
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Abolish Gutless White Journalists Saying 'America' When They Clearly Mean 'White America'
You cannot read Ethan Strauss’s piece on the NBA’s rating problems without a subscription to The Athletic. Fortunately, you do not need to read it to have read it, because his 25-character tweet accurately synopsizes the 2,000 words behind the paywall. In it, Strauss stretches himself into logical origami to determine that the NBA’s very…
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Men Lie, Women Lie, Cops Don't—Unless We're Talking About the Cop Who Lied on Raptors Exec Masai Ujiri
There are two groups of people that I don’t trust under any circumstances: cashiers when they say I can’t have extra napkins (y’all greedy with the oxtail gravy, too) and police officers when they insist that they’re acting in the best interest of Black and Brown folks. All of the above are full of shit.…