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‘Long Live the King’ Black Panther Commercial Wins the Super Bowl
King T’Challa, also known as the Black Panther, came all up through the TV screen during Super Bowl LII, and hands down, the ad won. The commercial uses the set from the film, in which we hear actor Chadwick Boseman’s lilting voice as T’Challa, reveling in all his coolness in the spot featuring the all-new…
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Colorado Teacher Allegedly Assaults Middle School Student Who Wouldn’t Stand for Pledge
The wypipo continue to lose their damn minds over their vigorous and ridiculous embrace of performative patriotism. And if these current allegations prove to be true, perhaps one will lose her job. According to reports, a Colorado teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave for allegedly assaulting a middle school student who refused to…
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Man Who Sold Ammo to Las Vegas Shooter Is Criminally Charged by Feds
An Arizona man who sold hundreds of rounds of ammunition to the gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas last year was charged Friday with manufacturing armor-piercing bullets in violation of federal law. Although it is not clear whether his bullets were used in the Oct. 1, 2017, attack, Doug Haig was charged in…
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Maryland County Passes a Black Lives Matter Week of Action for All Its Schools
The Prince George’s County school board voted unanimously on Friday to pass a resolution (pdf) called the “Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools” so that the 128,000 students in the second-largest school district in Maryland will learn about and discuss the Black Lives Matter movement starting Monday. Fox 5 DC reports that the…
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Black Unemployment Is Back Up. Way Up. What Will Trump Have to Say Now?
Well, that was fast. The black unemployment rate in the United States, which fell to a record low in December, something President Donald Trump gleefully took credit for, has made its biggest jump upward since 2012. Now run tell that. According to the Labor Department’s monthly employment report, released Friday, joblessness among black Americans rose…
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#NetNeutrality: The FCC Has Reportedly Officially Put the Senate on Notice
The Federal Communications Commission has reportedly officially notified the U.S. Senate of its plans for repealing the net neutrality rules put in place by the Obama administration in 2015. Two congressional sources confirmed to The Hill that this first step in the process has been completed. The next steps include notifying the House and publishing…
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Surprise, Surprise: Survey Reveals That American Students Are Not Being Adequately Taught About Slavery
Water is wet; also, a new survey from the Southern Poverty Law Center has drawn attention to the fact that students in the United States are not being taught the full truth about slavery, leaving them inadequately educated on the subject. Of course, anyone who knows anything about education in the United States is probably…
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Ivanka Trump Tweeted About Black History Month; It Didn’t Go Well
Ohhh, Ivanka Trump, how I long for the days when you didn’t have a speaking role and were simply a sideshow to your father’s racism, xenophobia and overall heartlessness. I miss the old Ivanka, whose top job was making silly clothing in the fashion business that was gifted to her from her daddy. On Thursday,…
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In Shocking Report, 100 Percent of NFL’s Black Men Surveyed Are Treated Like Black Men
In news that was probably shocking to those who found Colin Kaepernick’s protest to be disrespectful to the military and America, a new Associated Press report found that 100 percent of black NFL players surveyed have experienced racial profiling or know someone who has. From AP: The Associated Press surveyed 56 of the 59 black…