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‘The Most Bizarre Interview I Have Ever Been a Part of’: Soledad O’Brien Discusses O.J.’s ‘Lost Confession’
It’s impossible to count the hours we’ve devoted to O.J. Simpson. The national obsession with him began in the late ’60s, when he was one of the top football players in the country at the University of Southern California. Americans followed his career first as a record-breaking running back with the Buffalo Bills, then as…
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Washington State Changes 30-Year-Old Law That Only Convicted Killer Cops if They Were Evil … Wait, What?
Between 2005 and 2014, police in the state of Washington killed more than 200 of their fellow citizens. Some of the deaths were deemed “justifiable,” but many crossed the boundaries of what anyone would consider “reasonable.” There was a case where police shot a drunken man through his rear window and another where they shot…
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Cop Kicks Black Girls Out of Theater for ‘Acting Like Animals,’ Arrests Woman for Calling Him Out
A Pennsylvania woman was arrested for the egregious crime of standing up for a group of black girls after she filmed a police officer kicking a group of young black girls out of a movie-theater arcade in North Versailles, Pa., telling them that they were “acting like animals.” On Thursday morning, a Facebook user named…
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If Trump Is Meeting With North Korean President Kim Jong Un, Then Dennis Rodman Needs to Be There
You know what’s more bizarre then two hot-headed world leaders getting together in a room to talk peace? Dennis Rodman. Rodman—the tattooed, onetime drug addict-and-onetime basketball player-turned-reformed drug addict, whose temperament can best be described as a faulty shredded trip wire on its last thread—has the distinguished privilege of being one of the few men…
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Black Florida Teacher Under Fire for Tweeting White Supremacist Propaganda … and Sis, What Are You Doing?
Man, I know Florida gets a bad rap, but when things like this pop up, I really have to wonder about what’s in the water down there, and how a black middle school teacher could be caught spreading racist propaganda about Muslims, including posts shared by white supremacist groups. Like, sis. But apparently that’s what…
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Stacey Dash Refuses to Judge the One Group of People You Should Definitely Be Judging
Just hours after Stacey Dash formally announced that she would run for Congress, the actress, former Fox News pundit and current Miss Sunken Place pageant queen made it clear that she’s “not here to judge” neo-Nazis. In an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday, the New York Daily News reports, host Ari Melber asked Dash if…
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Sex Offender Owns Up to Making Racist Death Threats Against Howard Students
Given what we know about John Edgar Rust, it’s fair to call him a racist. The 26-year-old convicted sex offender admitted in a Virginia court on Tuesday that he was responsible for threatening Howard University students online with violent, racist messages in 2015. The death threats, made on 4chan and Reddit, declared that “any niggers…
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North Carolina Police Officer Accused of Using Excessive Force on Black Man for Jaywalking Is Actually Facing Charges
We all know that charges mean nothing in this criminal-justice world, especially when it pertains to police officers, but it’s as good a place as any to start, and so far, it seems as if Asheville, N.C., Police Officer Christopher Hickman will be facing some pretty serious charges for his part in the brutal beating…
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A Condom With a Hole In it, and 9 Other Things I Trust More Than Trump
At the White House press briefing on Wednesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was discussing the departure of top Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn. He is just the latest member of Donald Trump’s administration to say, “You know what? I’m out of here” and quit his job. A member of the press asked Sanders about the high…