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Donald Trump Wants to Kill Major Drug Dealers: Report
If President Donald Trump had his way, he would “love to have a law” that sentences major drug dealers to death. According to Axios, the president is fascinated by countries like Singapore and the Philippines that don’t seem to have a rapid drug problem because of the death penalty for major offenders. “He says that…
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40 Years Later, Jonestown Survivor Speaks Out on Massacre That Nearly Killed 1,000
A black woman who was 22 years old when she escaped an encampment in Jonestown, Guyana, site of the infamous “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid” suicide massacre, has come forward to tell her story in a new documentary. Leslie Wagner-Wilson, now a 61-year-old grandmother, escaped certain death in 1978 when she fled with her 3-year-old son,…
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2 Employees Fired for ‘Racially Insensitive’ Black History Month Meal Were White, Student Group Says
Updated Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, 9:15 a.m. EST: A student group advocating for minority and marginalized students at New York University has issued a statement clarifying what happened at the university last week following a controversial Black History Month meal at the school. On Sunday afternoon, the Governance Council of Minority and Marginalized Students at…
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Malcolm X Tells His Story in New Documentary Featuring Rarely and Never-Before-Seen Footage
In front of a rapt audience at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Malcolm X’s third daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, talked about witnessing the assassination of her father at Harlem’s Audubon Theatre and Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965. “I’m told my mother placed her entire body over my sisters and me that…
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If You Thought Black Panther’s Numbers Were Sick, Wait Until the Release of Michelle Obama’s Memoir This Fall
Can you say “blockbuster”? Well, Michelle Obama can. And will. Her office on Sunday announced the publication date of the former first lady’s memoir, Becoming, and we would bet our firstborn that the book is sure to put up Black Panther numbers upon its Nov. 13 release. Michelle Obama herself took to Twitter Sunday, saying…
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105 Nigerian Girls Are Missing Because Donald Trump Is a Racist Idiot
Almost a week after Boko Haram extremists kidnapped more than 100 girls, the young women remain missing, leaving parents in the northern Nigerian town distraught and angry. Many fear that the girls abducted from Government Girls Science and Tech College in Dapchi, Yobe state, Nigeria, on Monday, will become child brides for the Boko Haram…
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Illinois Republican Called Black Female Attorney General Candidate ‘Lesbo’ and Used N-Word
Question: What does a Republican call a black woman who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois, finished Harvard Law School, won the Miss America Pageant and became a successful attorney? Answer: A “lesbo” and a “nigger.” That’s what Republican candidate for Illinois Attorney General Erika Harold found out recently when one of…
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White Homeowner Nicknamed ‘George Zimmerman 2.0’ Gets Life in Prison for Murdering Unarmed Black Man
A North Carolina man who warned 911 operators that he was going to kill the “hoodlums” in his neighborhood who had the “devil in them” was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison on Friday. The 40-year-old Raleigh, N.C., homeowner shot and killed Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas, 20, in 2016 after Thomas left…
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Former RNC Chair Michael Steele Shocked by Racist Comment From Racist at Convention of Racists
Pundits and politicos were shocked Friday when a spokesperson for the Conservative Political Action Conference publicly admitted that former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was the party’s token black guy. Although the comment was the least racist thing you might hear at CPAC, people were stunned by Steele’s reaction, whispering among themselves: “Wait ……
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Wisconsin High School Accused of Racist Chants During Basketball Game … Again
Apparently seeking a state title in racism, a Wisconsin high school thrust itself into national headlines for the second month in a row after a visiting basketball team accused fans of the school of making racist comments and gestures during a recent game. In January, Franklin High School was scrambling to find the culprit of…