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City Councilman and Sheriff’s Deputy Tweets Racist Response to Philando Castile Settlement
I’m rarely shocked by racism. It often angers me. But knowing you live in a world co-existing alongside such evil and hate is depressing. It’s never surprising, but it still hurts. Take Tom McBroom Sr., for instance. Minnesota’s City Pages describes McBroom as a sergeant on the Rice County, Minn., Sheriff’s Department and a city…
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Woman Kills Thanksgiving Guest After He Didn’t Offer Her Crack: Report
In Minneapolis, what began as an invitation to a Thanksgiving meal ended in a bizarre death. Anenia Marie Hare, 47, is behind bars after authorities say she killed a dinner guest who had the poor manners to smoke crack at her Thanksgiving table—and not offer her any. As the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports, Hare invited over…
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Has 1 Foot Out of the White House and the Other on a Banana Peel
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is currently updating his LinkedIn profile to include his work at the White House. He’s spent a good portion of his morning calling friends to see who’s hiring, and practicing saying the word “funemployment,” because he’s out. Everyone knows he’s out, including Tillerson. Which is the reason he’s been combing…
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Too Good to Be True? New Report Raises Concerns About DC High School Where Every Graduating Student Was Accepted to College
Last June was a triumphant moment for Frank W. Ballou Senior High School, a predominantly black school located in Southeast Washington, D.C. After years of dismal student test scores and graduation rates, Ballou made headlines that could make the school and its students proud: Their entire senior class had been accepted to college. It was…
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Devon Wade Must Be Remembered for Disrupting the Prison Pipeline, Not Merely for How He Died
I will never forget the first—and, unfortunately, what would be the only—time I had the pleasure of meeting Devon Tyrone Wade, the Columbia University Ph.D. student killed late Sunday night. He was charming, had a smile that lit the entire room and demanded attention in the most subtle ways. Through his social media posts, it…
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Chicago Bulls Forward Nikola Mirotic Is a Better Man Than All of Us
Chicago Bulls forward Nikola Mirotic might be an angel, because if a co-worker gave me multiple facial fractures and a concussion in a fistfight, I would be suing my employers, my employer’s employers and my employer’s employer’s employers. I would spend the rest of my days at work looking like this: But alas, I’m not…
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NFL Players Just Sold Kaepernick’s Protests for $100 Million. Are They Sellouts or Heroes?
A group of players in the National Football League accepted an offer from NFL owners for $100 million for social justice causes in exchange for … umm … we want to use a term that expresses the exact sentiment while still conveying a modicum of journalistic integrity. We think the most precise way to describe…
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Jason Kessler Is Planning Unite the Right 2: Electric Boogaloo
The man who planned the rally that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer and led the president of the United States to whitesplain away an incident of white supremacist terrorism is back at it again. Jason Kessler has submitted a special-event application request to Charlottesville, Va.’s Parks & Recreation Department to hold a “rally…