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Staffer Working on Trump’s Voter-Suppression Commission Arrested on Child-Porn Charges
A Maryland man working on Donald Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (aka “Trump’s voter-suppression commission”) has been arrested on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography. Ronald Williams II of Suitland, Md., was arrested last week on 11 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, the Washington Post reports. A senior administration…
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Colin Kaepernick Files Grievance Against NFL Owners for Collusion: Report
Unsigned NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is preparing to file a grievance against NFL owners for collusion and has hired high-profile attorney Mark Geragos, according to reports. Bleacher Report’s Mike Freeman first tweeted news of the grievance Sunday afternoon, adding that Kaepernick will be releasing a statement. According to Sports Illustrated, “Collusion occurs when…
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Apple’s Diversity Chief Apologizes After Being Called Out for Saying a Team of White Men Can Be ‘Diverse’
Denise Young Smith, Apple’s vice president of inclusion and diversity, sent out an apology to her team Saturday after being dragged for comments she made on diversity at a conference in Bogota, Colombia, last week. “I regret the choice of words I used to make this point,” said Smith in the memo, referencing the comment…
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Anita Hill on the Weinstein Scandal: This Type of Shit Happens Every Day
One of the first faces of sexual harassment in the workplace (you’re welcome, white women), Anita Hill, now a professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis University, has spoken out in light of this week’s unfolding Harvey Weinstein scandal, wherein dozens of women have come forward to say that the 65-year-old former…
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Miss. School District Axes To Kill a Mockingbird Because It Made Some People ‘Uncomfortable’
As further evidence that the United States is descending into an authoritarian state, a school district in Mississippi has removed Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird from a junior high school reading list. Biloxi, Miss., administrators pulled the novel from the eighth-grade curriculum this week after getting complaints from parents. The decision made was an…
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Corey Long, the Black Man Wielding a Flamethrower to Protect Another Man in Charlottesville, Va., Is Arrested
Corey Long, the black man captured in the most iconic photo from the white nationalist march on Charlottesville, Va., two months ago, has been arrested on charges of assault and battery and disorderly conduct. Police Lt. Stephen Upman, a Charlottesville police spokesman, said that the disorderly conduct charge is related to the makeshift flamethrower Long…
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Brooklyn, NY, Home Invasion Leaves 91-Year-Old Dead, His ‘Fiesty’ 100-Year-Old Wife Shaken
In the “There’s Gotta Be a Special Place in the Inner Ring of Hell with Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and ’em” files, an elderly Brooklyn, N.Y., couple were robbed and one of them was killed in a home invasion earlier this week. It goes without saying that whoever did it needs an express one-way ticket…
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Howard University Cheerleaders Continue to Kneel During National Anthem
In support of the stance started by now-former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the cheerleaders of Howard University continue to kneel during the national anthem, as they have done since last season. The New York Times reports that during the university’s most recent game against North Carolina Central University, Howard’s cheerleaders knelt, and when the “black…
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5 Arrested in 34-Year-Old ‘Racially Motivated’ Murder, Including 2 in Law Enforcement
Police have arrested five people in west-central Georgia in connection with the death of a 23-year-old black man in a case more than 30 years old. On Friday, Spalding County, Ga., Sheriff Darrell Dix announced the charges, including against two people who worked in law enforcement and allegedly helped cover up the deed. On Oct.…