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Man Kicked Out of Portland Doubletree for 'Calling His Mom While Black' Files $10 Million Lawsuit Claiming Systemic Racial Discrimination
A black man thrown out of a Portland DoubleTree Hotel after calling his mother in the hotel lobby is suing the hotel chain for $10 million. Jermaine Massey, who filmed the encounter between himself and a hotel security guard that went viral last year, filed the suit against the Hilton hotel chain on Wednesday, alleging…
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Be the Change: Gucci Is Offering Up to $6.5 Million in Grants and Scholarships Via Its Changemakers Program
You can talk about it, or you can be about it. While Gucci may have made a major misstep or two this year, the label has also made major progress on their expressed desire to be leaders in diversifying the fashion industry. Aside from making some significant hires, they’re also hoping to equip a more…
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8 Very Black Reasons to Check Out Raising Dion on Netflix
Netflix’s original series, Raising Dion, dropped on Friday, October 4, and became my newest binge. I watched all nine episodes over the weekend and now I feel like talking about it. While watching, I made some observations that I’ve turned into very black reasons to check out the series. I wanted to share them with…
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Wisconsin Group Files Complaint Against Guyger Judge for Spreading the Gospel of White Jesus
A Wisconsin group that seeks to ensure the separation of church and state has filed a complaint against a murderer-embracing judge for transforming into Reverend Save-a-Heaux and sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with a former police officer who so loved herself that she crucified an unarmed man in his own apartment so that he…
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Virginia Man Sues Local Paper, Reporter for Accurately Reporting His Family’s Slaveholding History
Here’s the thing about descending from a “First Family of Virginia”—there’s going to be an abundance of receipts about your family’s slaveholding past. One Charlottesville man, apparently, couldn’t abide the publication of those receipts and is suing a local newspaper and professor for disclosing his family’s slaveholding past—and having the sheer gall to insinuate that…
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Donald Trump Warns There Will Be a Civil War If He Is Impeached
Donald Trump is shook. You can tell the “president” is shook because every time he is, he starts flailing on Twitter, tweeting out whatever nonsense he can think of to put up a brave front—but his words usually belie that enormous front and reveal that deep down inside, he is afraid of whatever may be…
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Read for Filth: City Leader Calls Out ‘Bad Police Officer’ During Awards Ceremony in Broward County, Fla.
Some wild shit is forever going down in Florida; this time it’s Broward County. During a ceremony earlier this week honoring Broward County Sherriff’s Office deputies, a ballsy city official aired out an officer for allegedly falsely arresting him years before. Surely, the last thing Deputy Joshua Gallardo thought he was walking away with —during…
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Terrence Howard Believes One Times One Equals Two and Is Counting on Us to Take Him Seriously
Beyoncé said she may not know much about algebra, but she knows that one plus one equals two! Terrence Howard, on the other hand, basically said, “fuck algebra.” If there is one bit of knowledge I soaked up from the uselessly aggravating period of time I spent in Algebra class, it’s the Pythagorean Theorem. The…
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Inclusive Language: Merriam-Webster Gives New—and Nonbinary—Meaning to the Word ‘They’
To paraphrase an LGBTQ activist catchphrase, “‘They’ are here, ‘they’ are queer and ‘they’ aren’t going anywhere”—at least, when it comes to a new, nonbinary definition of the word “they,” as announced by the editors at Merriam-Webster. As NBC News reports, after considering things like the increasing number of people who use “they” as their…