Michelle Obama On How That Famous 2008 New Yorker ‘Fist Bump’ Magazine Cover Changed Everything
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Uncle Nearest Whiskey CEO Finally Responds After Being Dragged for Viral Video with Former Classmate
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Travis McMichael Was Heard Uttering Racial Slur After Ahmaud Arbery Was Killed, Investigator Testifies
On Thursday, during preliminary hearings in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, an investigator revealed damning evidence against Travis and Greg McMichael and William Bryan, the three men charged with Arbery’s death. Richard Dial, the special agent in charge of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, testified that William Bryan heard Travis McMichael utter a racial slur moments…
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‘Richmond Is No Longer the Capital of the Confederacy’: Virginia Will Remove Robert E. Lee Statue, Four Other Confederate Monuments
A common argument made by racist-memorabilia-loving white people who still swear to white Jesus that they aren’t racist is that the tearing down of Confederate monuments is an attempt at erasing history. People with the ability to think critically, on the other hand, understand that monuments are erected to honor and immortalize people and events,…
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Gabrielle Union Files Harassment Complaint Against America's Got Talent Producers, Attorney Issues Statement
Gabrielle Union has filed a complaint with the Department of Fair Employment & Housing (DFEH) against the producers of America’s Got Talent, citing harassment, discrimination and retaliation. Union is named as the complainant with Universal Television, LLC, Fremantle Productions North America, Inc., Simon Cowell and Syco Entertainment Inc. are named as respondents in the DFEH…
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New York Times Writers Call Paper to Account for Deranged Tom Cotton Op-Ed: 'This Puts Black NY Times Staff in Danger'
On Wednesday afternoon, the New York Times opinion section published an op-ed from Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton entitled “Send in the Military.” It was exactly the kind of article you would expect from Cotton, who has the brains and demeanor of a white supremacist meerkat (he notably was once held up by the New Yorker…
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White-on-White Violence: Piers Morgan and Rudy Giuliani Engage in the Worst Verszuz Battle Ever
I don’t know what started it, and truthfully, I don’t care. But at some point during an interview between antifa and the Proud Boys, the mud started slinging, the wheels fell off the wagon and mayonnaise went flying everywhere. In what can only be called white-on-white violence, Piers Morgan and Rudy Giuliani got into a…
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Livestream: Watch Today's Memorial Service for George Floyd
The memorial service for George Floyd will be livestreamed across multiple broadcast and cable networks on Thursday, allowing millions of people to collectively mourn the life of the 46-year-old man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25. The Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the national eulogy at the service in North…
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Lauren London and Activist Erica Ford Discuss How Gun Violence Affects Women on Red Table Talk
Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk had a very important discussion about gun violence and the trauma it places on the women who lose the special men in their lives to it. The episode aired on the social media platofrm on Tuesday. “Very rarely do we talk about the women who are…
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Florida Police Investigating Officer Who Put Knee on Man's Neck
The past week has seen people all over the country protest against police violence after video was released showing George Floyd death as the result of Minneapolis Police officers placing their knee on his neck, suffocating him. Now, an officer in Sarasota, Fl. are under investigation for using a similar tactic. Bay News 9 reports…
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Philadelphia Finally Takes Down Monument to Racist, Homophobic Mayor Frank Rizzo
Frank Rizzo was a truly awful human being. As police commissioner and later mayor of Philadelphia through the ’70s, he spent his time in power terrorizing black and LGBTQ communities. Despite this information being common knowledge, a statue erected in his honor stood in front of city hall for more than two decades. Everyone can…