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Calm App Rides for Naomi Osaka, Offers to Pay Fines for Players Declining Media Interviews: 'Mental Health Is Health'
Not all heroes wear capes, but they may develop apps. In light of the ongoing Naomi Osaka saga, in which the four-time Grand Slam champ withdrew from the French Open after she was fined for declining to participate in media interviews, much has been said about mental health and how fiercely it should be protected—both…
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Rudy Giuliani Caught With Hand in His Pants in New Borat Movie
President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is continuing his lifelong reputation of being dried-up elephant hawk-spit after he was caught on film reaching into his pants and touching his genitals while lying on a bed with a woman he believed was a journalist but was actually an actor in Borat’s new movie, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.…
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The Trump Administration Gave a Journalist an Award Then Took it Back After Realizing She Criticized Trump and Then They Lied About All of it
The Trump administration is skullduggerish AF. Last year, they honored a journalist from Finland and then took that shit back after learning that she’d posted some harsh words about the great white leader of whiteness on social media. Then, they lied about taking the honor back. According to the Washington Post, apparently journalistic honors are…
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US Postal Service to Issue a Gwen Ifill Black Heritage Forever Stamp
The U.S. Postal Service will host a stamp dedication ceremony to launch the release of the Gwen Ifill black heritage stamp on Jan. 30. The ceremony will honor the late journalist with the 43rd stamp in its Black Heritage Forever stamp collection, a collection that has honored other black history heavyweights like Ida B. Wells…
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Riots Break Out In Haiti Following Mysterious Murder of Journalist Amid Anti-Government Protests
All hell is breaking loose in Haiti. Again. Following the mysterious killing of a popular journalist, the “Pearl of the Antilles” has erupted into total chaos at the start of the weekend. According to reports, a full-scale riot has broken out in the Caribbean nation’s capital city of Port -au-Prince on Friday after months of…
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Soledad O'Brien Wants Journalists to Stop Playing Games and Call a Racist a Racist
There’s a lot of people out here, namely, journalists who refuse to call out Donald Trump as a racist. One seasoned newsperson, Soledad O’Brien, ain’t having it! O’Brien has built her career as a storyteller and also as a truth-teller. “I often on Twitter talk to journalists because I feel like they dropped the ball at…
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Hack ‘Journalist’ Files Assault Charges Against Maxine Waters
Laura Loomer, a hack journalist who calls herself an “investigative journalist” and lives off of donations from Donald Trump supporters who pad her PayPal, has filed assault charges against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). Video of the incident shows Loomer confronting Waters as she’s walking the halls of Congress. When Loomer reveals that she is a…
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Trailblazing Civil Rights Journalist Simeon Booker Dies at Age 99
Simeon Booker, the trailblazing black journalist known for detailing African-American life in Ebony and Jet magazines, died Sunday at the age of 99 in an assisted-living community in Maryland. Booker had many accolades under his belt, including having been the first full-time black reporter at the Washington Post. He is also credited with bringing the…
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New Survey Wants More Journalists to Enter Comments Sections; Nah
Whenever I am asked why I don’t go into the comments sections of any of my published work, my response is immediate and in the form of a question: “Why do you hate me?” I am black, gay, work in media and have private student loans. Have I not suffered enough? For years now, many…