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Dove Apologizes for Hella Racist Ad, but How Did It Even Get Into the Public Space to Begin With?
This is why diversity in the workplace is so important. And I’m not just talking about token diversity. I’m talking about diversity where the opinions of people of color actually matter, because this whole idea should have been burned at its very inception. We’ve all heard the news by now. Over the weekend, Dove—the skin-care…
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Snowflake Mike Pence Flees Colts-49ers Game After Players Kneel During the National Anthem
Updated Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, 3:11 p.m. EDT: President Asshat himself said on Twitter that he ordered Mike Pence to leave the game if players took a knee during the national anthem. Earlier: Vice President Mike Pence, who once whined that there was “far too much of this talk of institutional bias or racism within…
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Trump’s New Budget Threatens to Kick Millions Off Food Stamps
Although Donald Trump ran as a champion of the poor and working class (and many whites in those socioeconomic groups voted for him), the only thing the “president” seems to be draining is the federal budget for his golf outings. Adding insult to injury, a new budget resolution put forth by Trump and passed by…
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Houston Teen Sues After School Expels Her for Not Standing During Pledge of Allegiance
A 17-year-old Houston student is suing her high school after she was kicked out for not standing for the daily Pledge of Allegiance, indicative of a troubling backlash many African Americans are facing when they choose not to stand for the pledge or national anthem. The New York Daily News reports that India Landry, a…
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Richard Spencer and His Tiki-Torch Bitches Are Back; Media Calls Them ‘White Activists’
Like a cockroach that just won’t die, Richard Spencer and his white nationalist tiki-torch-bearing friends once again descended on Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, the bicentennial of the University of Virginia. “It was a planned flash mob,” Spencer said Saturday night, according to the Washington Post. “It was a great success. We’ve been planning this for…
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Rapper Nelly Released From Jail Without Rape Charges, Pending Investigation
Rapper Nelly, born Cornell Haynes Jr., has been released from a Washington state jail and not charged after his Saturday-morning arrest for an alleged rape, according to reports. The rapper tweeted the news of his release Saturday night: As reported earlier by The Root, Nelly was arrested early Saturday morning after a woman accused him…
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Coroner Rules Death of 19-Year-Old Chicago Woman Found in Freezer an Accident
An autopsy has determined that a 19-year-old woman whose body was found inside a Chicago-area hotel freezer died of hypothermia from exposure to cold conditions and not foul play. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office says that toxicology tests found alcohol, caffeine and an epilepsy/migraine medication in Kenneka Jenkins’ system and that her death was…
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Rapper Nelly Arrested for Rape: Report
Rapper Nelly, born Cornell Haynes Jr., has been arrested and charged with second-degree rape for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman on his tour bus early Saturday morning. TMZ reports that a woman claims she was raped on the rapper’s bus in Auburn, Wash. The rape allegedly happened Saturday at 3:48 a.m. Law enforcement told the…
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Thousands Come Out for Funeral of Officer Slain in Las Vegas Attack
Off-duty Las Vegas Police Officer Charleston Hartfield was one of the 58 people killed when Stephen Haddock fired into a crowd during the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas last week. On Thursday, thousands holding candles came to pay their respects to the 34-year-old husband and father of two at the Police Memorial Park,…
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University of Wisconsin System Passes Dangerous New Policy That Expels Students for Protest
It’s good to know that the First Amendment is protected on college campuses. Not. The University of Wisconsin recently approved a policy that will suspend or expel students who disrupt campus speeches and presentations—because they are infringing on others’ free speech—an ironic and dangerous threat to the right to protest everywhere. The Associated Press reports…