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Jury Awards Man $15 Million for Spending 20 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit
A federal jury awarded a Baltimore man $15 million after he spent more than two decades wrongly incarcerated for murder. Sabein Burgess sued the Baltimore Police Department and two detectives for his wrongful conviction for the 1994 murder of his then-girlfriend Michelle Dyson, according to the Baltimore Sun. Burgess was released from prison in 2015…
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Retired Alabama Police Officer Says She Was ‘Told to Watch’ Roy Moore Around High School Cheerleaders
A retired Gadsden, Ala., law-enforcement officer says she and her fellow officers were told to keep Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore away from the high school cheerleading team because it was known that Moore preferred young girls. Faye Gary, a former police officer, told MSNBC that everyone in the small Alabama town was aware of…
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‘Brand’ Trump Takes Another Hit: Trump Name Coming off SoHo Hotel
Don’t you know that you’re toxic? The Washington Post is reporting that the Trump name is coming off one of the best-known hotels in New York City’s lower Manhattan: the Trump SoHo. It will be the third building to lose the eponymous name since the election of President Donald Trump last year. The Trump International…
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A 2nd Woman Accused Rep. John Conyers of Sexual Misconduct Earlier This Year
On Monday it was revealed that Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) paid a former employee $27,000 to settle a wrongful-termination complaint in which she alleged that she was fired because she would not succumb to Conyers’ sexual advances. On Wednesday a new report surfaced that Conyers was accused of sexual misconduct by a second woman earlier…
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Ex-University of Hartford Student Who Smeared Bodily Fluids on Roommate’s Belongings Not Likely to Face Hate Crime Charges, Lawyer Says
The lawyer for a white ex-University of Hartford student who has been accused of harassing her black roommate by tampering with her personal toiletry items and smearing bodily fluids on her backpack said that he does not expect his client to be charged with a hate crime in the case. Brianna Brochu had a court…
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Thanksgiving Text Hotline Helps White Folks Talk to Their Racist Relatives About Trump and Racism
Ah, Thanksgiving. That yearly fall holiday where we gather around a table full of food and feel thankful that we only have to see or interact with most of the people sitting around us for one holiday a year. Luckily, it’s one involving food, so for the most part, their mouths should be too full…
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Nazi Furries Are Proof That White People Have Officially Lost Their Minds
Black America often attributes the phenomenon known as “white-people shit” to the fact that our Caucasian brothers and sisters have a tendency for one-upmanship. Their inability to be satisfied with ho-hum ordinary things like breathing and self-pleasure forced them to combine both activities into the practice of autoerotic asphyxiation. When surfing in shark-infested waters started…
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Trump’s Top Pick to Head Census Is Pro-Gerrymandering Professor Who Thinks Black People Are Overcounted
Voting and immigration-rights advocates are alarmed over Donald Trump’s leading pick to head the U.S. Census Bureau: a conservative college professor with no government experience who literally wrote a book expounding on the dangers of competitive elections. According to Politico, Trump wants to tap Thomas Brunell, a political science professor at the University of Texas…
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Trump Thinks That Standing in the Locker Room During the Anthem Is Offensive Because He’s an Idiot
I don’t hate; it’s not really in my nature. I fake-hate on a regular, tho. Like, I will fake-hate on Cam Newton’s goofy outfits, but if really asked, I don’t care how he dresses. I fake-hate this bullshit iPhone 8, but I don’t know if there is a better phone because of that research and…