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Alabama Election: 1 Black Voter’s Experience at the Polls
Tuesday’s special election in Alabama is monumental for the people who live in the state as well as for the rest of us across the United States. Of the two men vying to take the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions in February when he resigned to accept his new job as U.S. attorney general, one…
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D.C. Police Reunite Toddler With Her Parents
Updated Tuesday Dec. 12, 2017, 5:29 p.m. EST: The parents of the toddler D.C., police found wandering alone Tuesday morning have been located. Police announced around 4 p.m. that the parents had been found, according to NBC Washington. The child wandered away while her mother was inside their home sleeping. No charges are expected in…
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Bodycam Footage Shows Grand Rapids, Mich., Police Holding an Innocent 11-Year-Old Girl at Gunpoint, Handcuffing Her
To have the Grand Rapids, Mich., police tell it, they don’t know the difference between an 11-year-old black girl and a 40-year-old white woman. At least, that’s the excuse police offered for why they handcuffed and held 11-year-old Honestie Hodges at gunpoint Wednesday. Now the Grand Rapids Police Department is launching an internal investigation into…
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Surprise, Surprise: Former Arizona Cop Who Killed Daniel Shaver Was Previously Investigated for Use of Force
This is my shocked face. Absolutely no one could have seen this coming. But as it turns out, the former Arizona cop who was involved in the “execution”-style killing of Texas dad Daniel Shaver had previously been investigated for his use of force back in 2015. TMZ got hold of the violent footage, which shows…
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Former Cop Convicted of Statutory Rape After Impregnating 13-Year-Old, Tried to Contact Victim From Prison
A former North Carolina police officer who is serving time behind bars for statutory rape after impregnating a young teen is now adding insult to injury and has attempted to contact his victim, violating the restrictions set up by his plea agreement, authorities say. According to the Gaston Gazette, James “Paul” Blair, 52, who is…
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Former White House Press Secretary Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Is Writing a Tell-All. Let’s Come Up With Book Names
I imagine that Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer still feels indentured to his master Donald J. Trump, so the news that he’s writing a tell-all about his months in the White House isn’t that appealing, considering that he still loves his overlord. Chances are the book is going to be an exposé of how misunderstood the…
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Roy Moore’s Wife: Our Attorney Is Jewish and We Have Black Friends. We Can’t Be Racists!
Roy Moore really needs to ask his wife and his friends to STFU because they aren’t doing him any favors. Because the world is in goddamn shambles, Moore, the disgraced human who allegedly had inappropriate dealings with underage girls, is still in the running to represent Alabama in the Senate, even after all of this…
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Roy Moore and Alabama’s GOP Are Upset Because Thousands of Felons Registered to Vote
Leonard Robinson was convicted of felony possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute by the state of Alabama more than 20 years ago. Although he doesn’t consider himself an activist, everyone who knows him understands that there is one subject that he is always passionate about. He works hard to spread the word that…
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NYC Teen Used Dying Breath to Identify the Man Who Shot Her After She Rejected His Advances, Officers Testify
As she was dying from gunshot wounds, a Brooklyn, N.Y., teen used her last breaths to identify the man who shot her because she refused to date him, police testified Monday. According to the New York Daily News, 16-year-old Shemel Mercurius struggled through a painful 20-minute wait for an ambulance, but in that time, she…
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The Median Net Worth of Black Bostonians Is Lower Than the Cost of Lunch
There isn’t a whole lot you can get in a major East Coast city for $8. Meals at most lunch spots, once you include tax, will run higher than that (a Shake Shack double costs $8.09, for example). But that amount—a measly $8—is making the rounds thanks to a Boston Globe spotlight investigation that delves…