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Rapper Pop Smoke to Be Buried in Brooklyn Later This Week
Rapper Pop Smoke, who was brutally gunned down last month at a home in the Hollywood Hills, will be laid to rest later this week in his hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y. The New York Daily News reports that the rising hip hop star will be laid to rest at the historic Green-Wood Cemetery south of…
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Texas Has Closed Hundreds of Polling Stations—Most of Them in Places Where Black and Latinx Populations Are Growing
Racial demographic changes in Texas over the last decade have led political experts and activists to view the state, once considered a conservative stronghold, as a battleground state. But as Texas’ electoral power becomes increasingly contested, polling stations have closed at a pace that has eclipsed every other state in the country. As reported by…
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3 Wrongly Convicted Black Men Who Spent 36 Years in Prison Set to Receive $2.9 Million Each
When I was 16, my mother and my next-door neighbor, who we called “Crow,” dropped me off for my first year of college. I thought my mother would be happy that she would no longer have to scream “Did you put the seat down?” when she heard me in our only bathroom, but I was…
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Big Ole Freak: Apparently, Fox News’ Brit Hume Is Into Some Kinky ‘Sexy Vixen Vinyl’ Cosplay
Fox News’ Brit Hume is a right-wing pundit masquerading as a newsman, and when he’s not pushing conspiracy theories on Trump’s favorite news station, he or his wife are busy dressing up in “sexy vixen vinyl” before turning on the weather channel, lighting some raisin-and-potato-salad-scented candles and getting down into some dirty basic white people…
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NJ Superintendent Says He Has 'No Problem' With Racist Teachers. When Black Parents Speak Out, District Calls Cops
Parents in a New Jersey school district began calling for the resignation of an interim superintendent after the school board official allegedly said he doesn’t mind racist teachers. When the superintendent further offended residents by whitesplaining that he was not racist because his family employed black farmworkers, the school found a novel solution to the…
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Challenge to Obamacare to be Heard by Supreme Court
Y’all. It’s been 10 years since the Affordable Care Act was enacted. Ten years of Americans getting insurance and Republicans inexplicably being butt hurt about it. Hopefully, good or bad, a Supreme Court decision will finally get them to shut the hell up about it. CBS News reports that the Supreme Court is set to…
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Missouri Middle Schooler Sends Racist Meme to Classmates
Every week I keep hoping that maybe this will be the one where I don’t have to talk about kids being trash. It’s only Monday and this already ain’t the week. According to KMOV, students at Hixson Middle School in Webster Groves, Missouri, sent a racist meme to two classmates. The meme showed an image…
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Bloomberg LP Is Such a Toxic Workplace, Three Black Employees Urged Their HBCU to Not Send Grads There
If you’ve watched a YouTube video or a TV show in the last few months then you have certainly seen an ad for one Mike Bloomberg. He’s the other billionaire trying to buy the presidency. His campaign has been beleaguered with him having to answer for his racist policies as mayor of New York City,…
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Best Gift Ever: Charlottesville to Celebrate End of Slavery Instead of Thomas Jefferson's Birthday
For the first time since World War II, guess who won’t be getting a birthday party in Charlottesville, Va.? If you guessed Thomas Jefferson—the same guy who once wrote “all men are created equal,” yet somehow owned over 600 of our ancestors—you’d be correct. The Washington Post reports that despite Jefferson’s name being on everything…
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Vanessa Bryant Demands 'Harshest Possible Discipline' for Deputies Who Allegedly Leaked Photos From Kobe Bryant's Helicopter Crash
Sheriff’s deputies are entrusted to protect and serve our communities, but it would appear that an undisclosed number of them have violated that trust, according to a statement released by Vanessa Bryant and her attorney, Gary C. Robb. In response to reports that Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies leaked graphic photos of the helicopter crash…