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Detroit Lions Owner Martha Ford Offers Players Money for Charity if They Stand for National Anthem
Talk about quid pro quo. Although Detroit Lions owner Martha Ford linked arms with her players during the playing of the national anthem last week (after President Donald Trump disparaged the players days earlier by saying that they should be “fired” if they kneel during the song), Ford, a 92-year-old billionaire, asked her team not…
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Milo Yiannopoulos Marries a Black Man
He may be the world’s biggest racist and transphobic troll, but that didn’t stop Milo Yiannopoulos from marrying a black man. Yiannopoulos and his longtime boyfriend, identified only as John, got married over the weekend in Hawaii. Yiannopoulos shared select photos of his husband on social media while carefully hiding his face. Because, honestly, if…
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2 Houston High School Players Kicked Off Football Team for Racial-Injustice Protest During Anthem
Two players on a private high school football team in Crosby, Texas, were kicked off the team for protesting racial injustice during the national anthem Friday. Cedric Ingram-Lewis, 16, raised his fist, and his cousin Larry McCullough, 18, knelt and were summarily told to take off their uniforms and leave the field, according to the…
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‘I Don’t See People Dying’: Ever Classy, Fox’s Geraldo Rivera Questions San Juan’s Mayor About the Devastation in Puerto Rico
Apparently, someone thought it would be a great idea to hand Fox’s Geraldo Rivera a mic and send him to Puerto Rico. Rivera did a one-on-one interview with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who has been the target of President Twitter Fingers’ ever-continuing social media attacks after she complained about his lack of response…
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Fla. Woman Upset After Tropical Smoothie Cafe Receipt Labels Her ‘Black Chick’
A Gainesville, Fla., woman is looking for answers after she received a receipt after purchasing a smoothie last week that labeled her “black chick.” Cassandra Peoples is especially upset because she says that the employees at the Tropical Smoothie Cafe asked her for her name while taking her order, only to completely dismiss that detail…
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Fla. Elementary School Blasted After Refusing to Put Toilet Paper in Bathroom Stalls, Handing Out Wads of Paper to Students as Needed
I know it’s important not to be wasteful, and to teach small children the importance of not being wasteful, but not putting toilet paper in school bathroom stalls and instead handing out wads of paper to students on an as-needed basis seems like some next-level anxiety-inducing shit, no pun intended. One Jacksonville, Fla., elementary school…
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Man Shot by Police on I-80 in Calif. Identified as 45-Year-Old Demilo Hodge
Editor’s note: The video of this shooting incident is graphic. Please view with caution. A man who was shot and killed on California’s Interstate 80, snarling traffic in both directions on one of the state’s busiest highways last week, has been identified as Demilo Trayuon Hodge, 45, of San Leandro, Calif. Police say that Hodge,…
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Body of 19-Year-Old Va. Culinary Student Found Behind Church in NC
The remains of a 19-year-old Virginia woman missing for almost two weeks were found behind a Charlotte, N.C., church on Friday, according to police. The body of Ashanti Markalia Billie, who had been missing since Sept. 18, was found Friday morning after a man cutting grass at the East Stonewall African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church…
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Thousands Descend on Washington, DC, for the March for Black Women
Although there was, in fact, a March for Racial Justice on Saturday in Washington, D.C., there was also a rally specifically for, about and led by black women: the March for Black Women, sponsored by the Black Women’s Blueprint, Black Youth Project 100 and Trans Sisters of Color Project. The March for Black Women held…