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Amid Recent Security Scares, Stoneman Douglas High School Requires Students to Wear Clear Backpacks
In the absence of the substantial gun reform advocated by students in Parkland, Fla., their school district will be installing a wholly different security measure: clear backpacks. The Broward County school district announced Wednesday that it would require students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to wear clear backpacks after the students return from spring…
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Biden Would ‘Go Down Fast and Hard,’ Says Borderline-Obese 71-Year-Old With Bone Spurs
Well, this all got super stupid, super quickly. Donald Trump woke up with a bone to pick with former Vice President Joe Biden after Biden told students at the University of Miami earlier this week that he would have “beat the hell out” of Trump if they’d gone to school together. Furiously tweeting about “Crazy…
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Stephon Clark Shooting Video Released by Police
The two police officers responsible for Stephon Clark’s death in Sacramento, Calif., on Sunday night shot him within three seconds of encountering him, according to video footage released by the Sacramento Police Department. Bodycam footage from one of the two officers, footage from the sheriff’s helicopter overhead, and the 911 call and dispatch audio were…
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Queen Latifah’s Mom, Rita Owens, Dies After a Long Battle With a Heart Condition
Queen Latifah’s mom, Rita Owens, died Wednesday after a 10-year battle with heart disease, the legendary rapper and actress said. In a statement to People magazine, Latifah wrote: It is with a heavy heart that I share the news my mother, Rita Owens, passed away today. Anyone that has ever met her knows what a…
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Tucker Carlson Explains Why White People Aren’t ‘Designed’ to Live Around Immigrants
Just when you thought the sentient celery stalk who cosplays as a concerned-as-fuck-looking, mediocre, diet white nationalist on Fox News couldn’t get any whiter … You should know that there’s no limit to how low Caucasian shenanigans can go. Fox News’ proprietary brand of whiteness is like absolute zero and episodes of Real Housewives—the bottom…
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White Supremacist Who Claimed He Trained the Parkland, Fla., Shooter Is Arrested, Cries He’s ‘a Good Person’
The FBI led an avowed white supremacist away in handcuffs as agents searched his Florida home for evidence connecting him to misinformation he allegedly gave to authorities regarding the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February. The Tallahassee Democrat reports that FBI agents swarmed the Tallahassee, Fla., residence of 22-year-old…
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This White Woman’s Discrimination Lawsuit Against the Atlanta Hawks Feels Eerily Familiar
Trigger warning: Before going any further, we feel it is our duty to forewarn our black readers that this story contains details some may find laughable and could be construed by our African-American audience as the simple reality of being a black person in corporate America. But this story is different. The acts are far…
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Joe Biden Really Needs to Sit His Ass Down Somewhere
Former Vice President Joe Biden won’t stop all this tough-talking stuff, and he’s literally becoming the walking meme of himself. During the “It’s on Us” anti-sexual-assault rally that Biden attended Tuesday at the University of Miami, Biden told students that he would’ve “beat the hell out” of Donald Trump if they had gone to school…
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Colin Kaepernick’s Latest Move Might Make Him the Realest Negus Alive
Negus (noun): king, ruler—used as a title of the sovereign of Ethiopia, according to Merriam-Webster. Former NFL quarterback-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick was 2017’s undisputed winner for America’s blackest man with his protest against the killings of unarmed black, men, women and children by police (from 2008 until 2016, the title was held by former President Barack…