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Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana Settles Lawsuits over 2018 Choking Death of Keeven Robinson

Robinson's widow and mother have settled lawsuits with a sheriff's office in Louisiana

By

Noah A. McGee

Published

December 31, 2021
Entertainment, Music

Walk With Me Now and You’ll Fly With Me Later: What We Now Know About DMX’s Unreleased Gospel Album

The lost work was set to be a dual album with one hip-hop LP and the other gospel.

By

Shanelle Genai

Published

December 29, 2021
Politics

Trump's Favorite Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Refuses to Call John McCain a Hero

Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio—the sheriff who was so racist that he was convicted of criminal contempt of court because he couldn’t stop being racist and later pardoned by the president because he considered the former sheriff’s racism a part of his job—refused to call Arizona Sen. John McCain a hero because he finds his…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

August 28, 2018
Politics

Joe Arpaio Talks With a Fake Donut and Says He'd Probably Accept an Amazing Blowjob From Trump

It’s Monday, folks, so you know what that means? It means that the GOP are up to their usual routine of rousing racism in America and playing themselves on national television. White America’s most favorite sheriff, Joe Arpaio—you know the sheriff who was so racist that he couldn’t stop being racist even after a court…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

August 6, 2018
Culture

Why Everyone Needs to Know About Alice Marie Johnson, the Great-Grandmother Who Is Serving a Life Sentence [Update: Johnson’s Sentence Commuted]

Updated: Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 3:53 p.m. EDT: President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson’s sentence on Wednesday, and she will be released from prison after spending 21 years behind bars for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. Trump didn’t give Johnson a full pardon, which would have cleared her record. Instead, he opted to reduce…

By

Peter J. Rickards

Published

June 6, 2018
Corrupt Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Insists on Dying on Racist Hill, Says He’ll Revive ‘Birther’ Theory if Elected

Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio refuses to die out of the news cycle. In addition to running to represent the state in the U.S. Senate despite having been convicted of a crime, Arpaio seems insistent on dying on the hill of racism. He recently swore to resume his already debunked conspiracy theory surrounding President Barack…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

March 28, 2018
Nazi Has Secured GOP Nomination for Chicago-Area Congressional Seat

A Republican Holocaust denier shunned by his own party will be the GOP nominee for a congressional seat representing a heavily Democratic Chicago suburb. Arthur Jones, a former member of the American Nazi Party, managed to secure the nomination by running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. As The Hill reports, Jones is an unrepentant anti-Semite and…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

March 21, 2018
News

Racist, Corrupt, Senate-Running Convict Joe Arpaio Still Holding On to Birther Claim

The man whose policies resulted in constitutional violations, discrimination and even death sidestepped these charges on national TV by doubling down on the Barack Obama Birther conspiracy, claiming that he has “evidence.” Despite the fact that—given ample opportunity to show his supposed proof—he never does, the racist, xenophobic criminal Joe Arpaio continues to stick by…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

January 11, 2018
Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio Is Proof That Racist White Men Stay Winning

Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff so racist that even when he was threatened with jail for unlawfully targeting and racially profiling Latinos in Arizona, he couldn’t stop and was eventually thrown in jail, is running for the U.S. Senate. That’s because equally deplorable President Donald Trump had him pardoned from prison, and now this…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

January 9, 2018
Disgraced Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Strongly Considering Senate Run

Now that bigotry and racism is house-sitting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., it seems fitting that ex-Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio—who was so vile and xenophobic that the courts ordered him to stop targeting Latinos in Arizona, but he refused and was sent to prison until the xenophobe in chief pardoned him—may be running for Congress.…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

December 8, 2017