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America’s Most Successful Jewel Thief Retires From Life of Crime
If you turned the true story of America’s greatest jewel thief into a movie, it would include scenes from Monte Carlo, New York and even Tokyo. It would feature a black woman, and the script would span seven decades. It would feature hair-raising tales; but, like most movies, the problem is always the ending. Will…
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Colin Kaepernick’s Attorney Says He’ll Have ‘Smoking Gun’ to Prove NFL Owners Blackballed His Client
Mark Geragos, the attorney representing Colin Kaepernick in a grievance against the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement, says he believes he will have definitive proof that NFL owners colluded to keep Kaepernick out of the league. “I am going to predict right now that we will have a smoking gun,” Geragos told CNN Tuesday. “There are…
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NFL Says It Won’t Penalize Players for Kneeling During Anthem
The NFL would have you believe it woke up. After weeks of NFL owners trying to appease their players and their racist fans, too, the league has decided that players can continue to kneel during the national anthem to call attention to racial injustice without penalty. The decision came after a meeting Tuesday afternoon in…
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Lone Protester Heckles Jerry Jones: ‘Look at the Videos of Police Getting Away With Murder and Tell Me the Players Are Wrong for Protesting’
Jerry Jones had his Southern-fried ass handed to him by a lone protester as the Dallas Cowboys owner walked through what looked to be a hotel lobby. In a 37-second video posted to Twitter, what sounds like an African-American man can be heard projecting to Jones, and shown holding an image of slaves with some…
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Calif. Restaurant Called Out for Passing Off Popeyes Chicken and Upcharging
One California restaurant has no shame in its fried-chicken game. After a customer in the Long Beach, Calif., restaurant noticed an employee with a couple of Popeyes chicken boxes, Sweet Dixie Kitchen got its spot blown all the way up. But the best part is that the restaurant didn’t deny it. Tyler H. of Los…
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Donald Trump to Army Sergeant’s Pregnant Widow: ‘He Knew What He Signed Up For’
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, the dotard in chief does something else that leaves us all collectively face-palming and asking ourselves, “What the fuck?” This time, it is his comments to a grieving Army widow that have us shaking our head as a nation. U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson died…
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ACLU Files Suit Against New Orleans DA for Using Fake Subpoenas to Coerce Victims and Witnesses in Criminal Cases
The national American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Louisiana and the Civil Rights Corps filed a lawsuit against Orleans Parish, La., District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro and 10 of his assistant district attorneys over their use of fake subpoenas to coerce victims and witnesses in criminal cases to come in and be questioned by the…