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NC High School Basketball Coach Killed Trying to Rob Notorious Mexican Drug Cartel

*My great grandfather Ferguson Rotimi Jebediah Crockett once took me on his knee and told me about life. “Stephen,” he said. “There are three things in life that you don’t fuck with: the IRS, white women, and the Sinaloa cartel.” I have made it all my life only fucking up on one of those credos…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

April 15, 2021
Culture, History

The Real Watchmen: 100 Years Ago, a Race Riot Created Chicago’s Black Street Gangs

On Sunday, the highly-anticipated HBO series Watchmen set the internet ablaze with America’s shocked reactions to a little-known incident frequently called the Tulsa Race Riots. The bombing of Black Wall Street is common knowledge to a large percentage of black folks (we’ve written about it at least 20 times, including here, here and here), but…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

October 23, 2019