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Forbes’ 10 Cities Where African Americans Are Doing the Best Economically Are All in the South
When Forbes began its annual ranking of the places where black people are doing the best economically, many people probably assumed that the list would be filled with places in the North and the West, culminating in the city where residents are required to own at least one pair of Timberlands and everyone’s last name…
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Steve Bannon Subpoenaed in Russian Investigation, but Will He Snitch?
Steve “Big Poppa” Bannon, the former chief strategist to the racist in chief who has been in a full-on fuss fight with the man, has been subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller to appear before a grand jury. I’m praying that Bannon walks into the room and asks for a pack of Newports, a bag…
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Pastor Mark Burns’ Arms Too Short to Box With Joy: ‘We’re Not Friends’
One good turn deserves another. And since Vice President Mike Pence was recently shamed by a pastor—actually, the man has no shame, so—since Pence was recently called out by a pastor, it’s only right that a pastor get a verbal drubbing of his own—just to show that all God’s children do not have traveling shoes…
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Bootleg Booty-Injection Killer Dies In Jail
The woman convicted of the “depraved heart” murder of another woman after a black market silicone butt implant has died in jail, less than three-and-a-half years into her life sentence. Tracy Lynn Garner, 58, was pronounced dead Sunday after she was moved from Central Mississippi Correctional Facility to a Jackson, Miss., hospital, the Associated Press…
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Melania Trump’s MLK Tweet Proves That She Is As Delusional as Her Deplorable Husband
I’ve always believed that Melania Trump was in an arranged marriage. And by “arranged,” I mean that she arranges times in which she is forced to watch her giant ball of old earwax devour a bucket of Original Recipe. Or arranges public appearances or official cutoff times for the contractual presidential coupling. Melania Trump doesn’t…
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Cory Booker Looked Poised for 2020 as He and San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Were Honored by the King Center in Atlanta
Oprah Winfrey may rule out a 2020 run to end President Donald Trump’s reign of terror over this country, but Cory Booker might not. In Atlanta Saturday, the U.S. senator from New Jersey was a thunderous presence at the King Center’s annual Salute to Greatness Awards Gala, where he was the main honoree. Introduced by…
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Mike Pence Turned Beet Red During MLK Service as Black Preacher Went Off About ‘Shithole’ Remarks
Everyone in the black community knows that there are three people who can dismantle your soul and crush your spirit using nothing but words: the oldest barber at any barbershop, a black mother whose child forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer and—worst of all—a black Baptist preacher. According to the Colt 45…
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Simone Biles Says She, Too, Was Abused by USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar
Olympic star Simone Biles has added her voice to the #MeToo movement, revealing in a statement via Twitter that she, too, was sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar. More than 140 women have accused Nassar of probing and fondling them without gloves, warning or permission under the guise of giving them…
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Trump, Whose Racist Record Goes Back More Than 40 Years, Says He Is ‘the Least Racist Person’
President Donald Trump—a man who was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for racial discrimination, who called for the death penalty against the Central Park Five, who claimed for years that the first black president of the United States wasn’t born in this country, who labeled Mexicans rapists and criminals during his first 2016…