civil war
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D23 Expo 2022: Chadwick Boseman, Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross Honored as Disney Legends
‘If your dreams don't frighten you, you're not dreaming big enough,’ Anderson said.
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Kanye West Posts Petty Reaction to Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson Split
West’s divorce attorney actually quit amid the breakup.
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Today in White People 'Trying It': Sen. Tom Cotton Compares Black Lives Matter Protesters to Confederate Traitors
One day, during a meeting on journalistic legal policies, a very sincere attorney suggested that, instead of calling someone “a racist,” it was better to refer to the person’s actions as racist. Even though I still adhere to that policy, it made no sense to me. If I am allowed to refer to a person…
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Alleged 'Boogaloo Boy' Charged With Murder in Death of Federal Officer During Oakland Black Lives Matter Protests
For as long as the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests began gathering momentum, there were rumors of infiltration of the protests by outside groups. Much of the focus, at first, was placed on alleged anarchist or anti-fascist groups destroying public and corporate property. But as the massive protests stretch into their fourth week, attention has…
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Bob Iger Confirms Song of the South Will Not Be on Disney+, Says It's 'Not Appropriate in Today’s World'
It looks like Disney+ won’t feed your “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” earworm anytime soon! According to Deadline, Disney executive chairman Bob Iger confirmed at the annual shareholders’ meeting that the 1946 Disney classic film Song of the South will not be re-released on the Disney+ streaming platform. Iger recently stepped down as CEO in February and was replaced…
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Alabama Lawmakers Want to Force One of America's Blackest Cities to Celebrate White Supremacy
The mayor of the city with one of the highest percentages of black residents in America spoke out on Tuesday against legislation that compels the city to celebrate its Confederate heritage even though—and this part is absolutely bonkers—the city doesn’t have one. Birmingham, Ala., is 72 percent black, making it the fourth-blackest municipality in America…
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Kamala Harris Takes Twitter to Task Over Trump Tweets: 'We Need a Civil Society, Not Civil War'
On Tuesday night, as the president tweeted about impeachment efforts—likening an inquiry into his self-made Ukraine scandal to a “coup”—Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to put a stop to Trump’s increasingly toxic nonsense. Reaching out to Dorsey via Twitter and with a letter distributed by her presidential campaign, Harris called…
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Why You Can’t Say ‘Roll Tide!’ to Any Ole Person Up in the Target
I was reminded recently why we are taught as youth not to speak to strangers. While the goal of this lesson for children is to hopefully curb abduction and prevent being handed candy with razor blades lodged inside, it is also a lesson one can put to use as an adult. Because sometimes, something as…
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Rep. Steve King Posts Racist Meme On Facebook. No One Is Shocked
If a masked intruder grabbed Iowa Republican Steve King’s favorite stuffed Hitler doll and told King that he would either have to stop being a racist asshole or never see his stuffed doll again, Steve King would look at his baby Hitler and mouth “I’m sorry” before watching the robber take off with his prized…
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This Black History Month, Let’s Recognize the African-American Prisoners Who Helped Build America
Like much of the rest of the discourse around jails, prisons and mass incarceration, Black History Month is not usually a time when we talk about the thousands of black prisoners that were forced to build America after the Civil War. It’s time to recognize them because the postwar South was literally rebuilt on their…