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Scientists Reveal That Britain’s Oldest-Known Skeleton Had Dark Skin, and Twitter Has a Field Day
Well, well, well. It’s always nice to know from where we originated, but one particular scientific discovery that was unveiled Wednesday at London’s Natural History museum took social media by storm. It was revealed that one of the United Kingdom’s earliest men, nicknamed “Cheddar Man,” was actually dark-skinned. You hear that? That was the sound…
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How Last Year’s Hurricane Season May Have Decimated the Virgin Islands’ Middle Class: Report
Back-to-back strikes from two major hurricanes last year, Irma and Maria, have undone years of economic and social growth in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a new report from the Washington Post finds. The storms have so thoroughly disrupted the islands’ economy, education and health systems that “a generation of Virgin Islanders” may have been “blown…
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Donald Trump Jr: My Dad Isn’t Racist Because He Takes Photos With Rappers
For years, the race between Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. for the dumbest Trump offspring wasn’t a race. In fact, it could’ve. been argued that Eric Trump was about to lap the field when Trump Jr. yelled out, “Hold my coffee,” and ran to the press to exclaim that his dad isn’t racist because…
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Charleston, SC, Black Lives Matter Leader Dies After Being Shot in Louisiana
A Charleston, S.C., Black Lives Matter leader—who made headlines last year after being seen jumping over yellow police tape in an attempt to snatch a Confederate flag—has died after being shot in New Orleans. Muhiyidin d’Baha, whose legal name was Muhiyidin Moye, died Tuesday morning, the New Orleans Police Department confirmed, according to Live5News. Police…
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Boyce Watkins Responds to Article by The Root’s ‘Negro Annihilator’
On Tuesday, Boyce Watkins took time out of his busy schedule of going on Facebook Live to explain how busy he is, and logged into Facebook Live to respond to The Root’s article detailing the uproar over his Black Business School. For the sake of transparency, I must admit that I did not watch the…
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Attorneys for Bullied Gay Teen Want Manslaughter Charges Dismissed After Cellphone Video of Attack Emerges
The video is grainy, and it’s difficult, at first viewing, to tell what exactly is happening. But the crucial nine seconds it catches—of three teens engaged in a disruptive fistfight—is enough, defense attorneys say, to get manslaughter charges against their client Abel Cedeno dropped. Cedeno made headlines last year after stabbing two classmates, Matthew McCree…
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‘I Didn’t Want to Kill Anybody, but I Didn’t Want to Be Killed’: 83-Year-Old Homeowner Shoots Intruder
An elderly Maryland man defended himself and shot an intruder who broke into his Mitchellville home last week. According to WJLA-TV, Prince George’s County police were called to the man’s home around 12:30 a.m. Jan. 31. Police say the suspect, who remains unidentified, broke into the home through a basement window before making his way…
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Trump’s Lawyers Tell Him to Stand Down on Mueller All-Access Interview; Will He Listen?
When you have a client who is known for going off-script even when that script is written as simply as a Little Golden Book, it is in the best interests of both you and your client to caution him against doing an interview in which he could possibly perjure or incriminate himself because he is…
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Trump Wants a Military Parade Because Fascism Isn’t Coming to America Fast Enough
Your president is nothing if not a gigantic stunt queen who revels in the act of proving that his figurative penis is bigger than everyone else’s. I say “figurative” because we all know that if the real one were big, we wouldn’t have to constantly worry about getting nuked by North Korea because Donald Trump…
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Steve Bannon Dodges a House Intelligence Committee Interrogation Again
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon once again avoided testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, forcing the panel to give him another week to comply with a subpoena to appear. A source told CNN Monday that Bannon knew prior to Tuesday’s deadline that he would not be showing up to give testimony…