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8-Year-Old Jump Rope Champ Killed After Being Struck by a Jeep While Walking Home From Fundraiser
An 8-year-old jump roping champ was killed over the weekend after a Jeep struck him while he was walking home from a fundraiser with his award-winning team. Jeremiah “Jerry” Grant, who was a member of the renowned double Dutch jump roping team the Honey Bees, was rushed to a nearby medical center after the incident…
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A Black Woman, Judge Deborah Robinson, Will Hear the Manafort Case; Watch the B.S. Begin
As soon as word came that a black woman would be the presiding judge for the Paul Manafort indictment, I braced myself for what is surely to come: pure fuckery—especially from the president and the conservative press. And so it has begun. On Monday night, Fox News published an article, “Paul Manafort Judges: Who Are Deborah…
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Woman Says NYPD Held Her Hostage in Her Own Apartment for 10 Hours
A Brooklyn, N.Y., woman says that officers with the New York City Police Department held her hostage in her apartment for 10 hours while they conducted an investigation of her adult children. Rolinda Walls, 54, is a resident of the Van Dyke Houses in the Brownsville section of the city’s Brooklyn borough. She told the…
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Contrary to Previous Reports, Colin Kaepernick Was Not Invited to Past or Future Meetings Between NFL Team Owners and Players
Last week, NFL Executive Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs Joe Lockhart told reporters that he fully expected Colin Kaepernick to be invited to attend the next meeting between NFL players, their representatives and the league to discuss how the NFL could better support players in their activism efforts. Those comments were echoed by…
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Nev. Campus Police Officer Dons Racist Costume to Mock Colin Kaepernick’s Protest
A police officer at the alma mater of Colin Kaepernick donned a Halloween costume that mocked the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback for his silent protests of racial injustice and the police shootings of unarmed black men. After pictures of the offensive costume circulated on campus as well as social media, the university police chief…
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Some Republicans Say Donald Trump Might Not Seek Re-Election, and I Don’t Know if We Should Cry or Praise-Dance
In the past few days, two top Republican officials have insinuated that America might not get a sequel to this dumpster fire of a presidency that some news organizations refer to as “the Trump administration.” On Sunday night on MSNBC, the humanlike ball of poodle hair Kentuckians somehow elected to the Senate, Sen. Rand Paul…
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The Lowlights From the White House’s ‘How to Get Away With Conspiracy Against the US’ Playbook
What is this sweet scent of manure wafting in the afternoon air? Ahhh, yes! The White House press briefing. And what a show of fecal spray it was today. On a day when Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, Manafort’s right-hand man, surrendered to authorities after a federal grand jury indicted…
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Court Blocks Trump’s Transgender Military Ban, Cites His Announcement via Twitter
The courts have once more come through for decency by partially blocking President Donald Trump’s ban of transgender members from serving in the U.S. military. On Monday the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Trump’s directive banning new transgender recruits from enlisting cannot be enforced while the case is being reviewed…
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Paul Manafort, Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman, Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiracy Against the United States
Updated Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, 2:38 p.m. EDT: President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Manafort’s business associate Rick Gate have both pleaded not guilty following their arrest on several felonies, including conspiracy against the United States. According to the Los Angeles Times, Manafort and Gates both appeared before a federal judge Monday…
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Family of College Grad Killed in Greece Determined to Get Justice
Bakari Henderson was only 22 years old when he died on the Greek Island of Zakynthos in what his parents believe was a racially motivated murder. The recent University of Arizona graduate was an avid traveler and went to the southern-European nation in July to shoot photos for a clothing line he had started. As…