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Oprah Winfrey Is Not Running for President, so Stop Making Those Bootleg T-Shirts and Mugs
We can all let go of the idea of Gayle King as vice president, Ava DuVernay as the secretary of education and, unfortunately for diplomatic relations, Iyanla Vanzant as ambassador to the United Nations. Sadly, middle-American white women, who all wore pink pussy hats during the recent Women’s Marches and yet secretly voted for Donald…
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Citing Trump’s Own Racist Words, NAACP LDF Files Suit Against Homeland Security for Revoking Protections of Haitian Immigrants
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a discrimination lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security for rescinding the Temporary Protected Status of nearly 60,000 Haitian immigrants. According to an LDF press release, the suit alleges that the 2017 decision to remove the TPS of tens of thousands of Haitians displaced by the…
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HUD Official Tries to Apologize for Calling April Ryan ‘Miss Piggy,’ Realizes Too Late that April Ryan Is Not the One
Well, Housing and Urban Development official Lynne Patton tried it with White House reporter April Ryan. And realized way too late that Ryan is really not the one. Normally, in the black community, I feel we have a good idea of people not to test. We don’t test our grandmothers, we usually don’t test that…
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Cops Get Away With Everything
Speaking of cops who escalate things for no reason, remember the story of the off-duty Los Angeles police officer living in Anaheim, Calif., who pulled out his gun and fired it during a scuffle with a 13-year-old boy last year? In case you don’t remember, Officer Kevin Ferguson was upset that some teens in his…
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Watch This Cop Escalate a Situation for No Other Reason Than to Be a Jerk
For those of you who may be too young to know this, before Ice-T was a big star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, he was one of the greatest Los Angeles gangsta rappers of all time. In fact, he was doing gangsta rap before N.W.A even existed. In fact, when you have time,…
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Donald Trump vs. Robert Mueller: Under Oath, Unscripted, Unedited and Uncut
I think I have an idea for the greatest pay-per-view event of all time. It’s something the American people have been waiting for, and it is guaranteed to make millions of dollars. We will call it Donald Trump vs. Robert Mueller: Under Oath, Unscripted, Unedited and Uncut. In case you haven’t already heard, Donald Trump…
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Federal Investigation Launched After Baltimore Woman Kicked Out of Hospital Wearing Only a Gown and Socks
It may be one of the most heartless acts of 2018 so far. A Baltimore hospital released a woman who was having what her lawyers have described as a psychotic episode out into the freezing Baltimore night air wearing nothing but a hospital gown and socks. A video showing the woman, who was later identified…
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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…