ferguson
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Michael Brown’s Mother, Lezley McSpadden, Says She Will Run for Ferguson, Mo., City Council: Report
In the years following the death of her son Michael Brown at the hands of Ferguson, Mo., police, Lezley McSpadden has completed her high school diploma, written a book, campaigned for social justice and joined Hillary Clinton on her 2016 bid for the presidency. Now McSpadden says she is considering running for Ferguson’s City Council.…
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South Carolina Lawmakers Want to Ban Baggy Pants Because What Other Political Issue Could Possibly Be More Pressing?
While the rest of the country clamors for gun control, South Carolina lawmakers have chosen to home in on the real issues, like banning baggy pants. According to WLTX 19, House Bill 4957 would make it illegal “for a person to expose their skin or underwear by wearing their pants ‘three inches below the crest…
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Former Ferguson, Mo., City Spokesman Found With Meth: Report
Police charged a former city spokesman with possession of methamphetamine on Tuesday after a traffic stop. Jeff Small, also a former on-air reporter in St. Louis, began working for the city in 2014 following the death of Michael Brown, KPLR-TV reports. On Jan. 6, Small was pulled over by cops for a broken headlight, according…
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I’m Kind of Starting to Mess With Don Lemon
For the better part of most of the time I’ve known he’s existed, Don Lemon has been a fuckboy. Or at least that’s how he’s presented. From telling black folks to stop littering and stop using the n-word as part of a sort of five-point plan for getting niggas together to even being lazy in…
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Why Has the Justice Department Redacted a Great Majority of Its Documents Related to Ferguson, Mo.?
There are 400 pages of documents that have been identified by the U.S. Department of Justice as being related to an investigation conducted by its Office of Community Oriented Policing Services after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown by then-Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson, and a great majority of the pages were either totally…
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Ferguson, Mo., State Senator Survives Calling for Trump’s Assassination
I have said it before and I will say it again: Black women are Donald Trump’s kryptonite. There is not one group of people that seems to trigger the Trump administration more than black women, who are loud, proud and willing to call out his sheer incompetence, venality and existential danger to everything anyone hopes…
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Exclusive Preview: Copwatch Explores What Happened to the People Who Filmed Famous Cop Killings
Spoiler alert: If you happen to film a police officer killing a black person, the cops might not like it. That’s one of the not-so-surprising revelations from a new documentary set to premiere this month. Copwatch isn’t about cops, police killings or even injustice. Instead, director Camilla Hall chronicles the aftermath of what happens when…
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Mad Magazine Remixes a Norman Rockwell Painting for the Age of Trump
In 1958, one of America’s most renowned painters, Norman Rockwell, created The Runaway, an oil on canvas that shows a nice policeman at a soda fountain counter lovingly giving what we’re sure are great words of advice to a scruffy white kid who is an obvious runaway because of that cute little stick and handkerchief…