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1 Twin Born to a Gay Couple Was Granted Citizenship. The Other Was Not—and the Reason Is Expectedly Trash
I wasn’t born in this country. In fact, I didn’t live in it until I was 9 years old, arriving in Northern Virginia on the cusp of the fifth grade, excited about American TV and the prospect of seeing my first snowfall. While I still spoke with a Filipino accent, my citizenship was never in…
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New Report Ranks US Cities’ Commitment to Black Male Achievement
A new report gauging city-level commitment to black male achievement highlights the growth and need for programs dedicated to fulfilling the promise of black boys in America’s largest cities. The Campaign for Black Male Achievement’s annual report, “Promise of Place: Building Beloved Communities for Black Men and Boys” (pdf), highlights the progress of 50 metropolitan…
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Tucker Carlson Wants to Start a Race War So Bad, He’s Now Beefing With Joy Reid
On Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson—the political pundit, professional white person and proof that “mediocre-est” is a word—tipped the Las Vegas betting odds in his favor on which Fox News personality will eventually kick off the race war when he jump-started a new beef with MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid by saying that her “entire public career has…
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Erica Garner Recorded Justice Department Meeting on Father’s Choke Hold Death
Erica Garner may be physically gone from this world, but her fight and legacy live on. On Tuesday afternoon, posted to her Twitter account was video from a Department of Justice meeting recorded by Garner herself and showing officials from the department telling the family last year that a decision in the federal investigation into…
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Death at DC Boarding School Highlights the Alarming Increase of Suicides Among Young Black Children
At about 6:15 a.m. Tuesday, several middle-school-age students at a boarding school in Washington, D.C., found their 12-year-old classmate unconscious. Officials would later confirm that the girl, one of the students’ roommates, was dead of an apparent suicide, Fox 5 DC reports. Paramedics who rushed to the scene could not revive her. The unidentified girl…
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86-Year-Old Woman Placed on Probation After Pleading Guilty in Bank Robbery
An 86-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to charges in connection with a bank robbery has been placed on a year’s probation for her crimes. And, no, this is not a story about famed international jewelry thief Doris Payne, whose penchant for shoplifting is well-known across the internet. According to the Associated Press, 86-year-old Emily Coakley…
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Amazon Scrubs Site of Clothing With Slogan ‘Slavery Gets Shit Done’
So, some asshat thought it would be a good idea to sell on Amazon.com children’s clothing featuring the slogan “Slavery gets shit done,” prompting the online retail giant to scrub the site of the hideous items after backlash. According to Reuters, there were a range of products—including mugs, bags, kids T-shirts and even a baby…
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Mueller Narrows His Focus in Russia Probe to Possibility Trump Obstructed Justice
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller last week, making him the first member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet to be questioned as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The New York Times reports that Sessions was questioned for hours last week, and former FBI Director…
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Can 1 Black Juror Help Get Justice for Former NFL Player Joe McKnight?
A road rage incident at an intersection 5 miles southeast of New Orleans left former New York Jets running back Joe McKnight dead. The white man accused of shooting him, Ronald Gasser, was charged with second-degree murder. Gasser’s fate will be decided by a jury with just one black woman on it. Will there be…
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Danny Glover and Cedric the Entertainer Are Serving As Protection for an Exiled Revolutionary Returning to His Home Country
It sounds like a bad black buddy movie: Danny Glover, Cedric the Entertainer, a California politician and an exiled revolutionary head to Honduras to witness the swearing-in of a small city’s first black mayor. Only one problem: The revolutionary was exiled from Honduras and his return has been met with death threats, so Glover, the…