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Fire Chief Says Pittsburgh NFL Coach Mike Tomlin Added Himself to ‘the List of No-Good [N-Words]’
Paul Smith, the chief of Cecil Volunteer Fire Station No. 2 in Washington County, Pa., was in his feelings after Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin decided to keep all the players in the locker room during the national anthem Sunday. So Smith logged into his Facebook account and got all white-bothered and indignant and…
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Georgetown Law Professors Will Take a Knee to Protest Jeff Sessions’ ‘Free Speech’ Visit
Law professors at Georgetown University want Attorney General Jeff Sessions to know he’s exactly the wrong one to talk about free speech. Sessions, the man Coretta Scott King warned us all about, will be at the university’s campus tonight to deliver his remarks. More than 30 law professors from the Georgetown University Law Center signed…
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Philadelphia Will Pay Tribute to Forgotten Black American Hero With New Monument
On Tuesday, the city of Philadelphia will resurrect the memory of one of its most influential citizens, Octavius Catto, a civil rights activist whose work was instrumental in getting black men the right to vote in 1870, and who helped desegregate the city’s transportation system. Catto’s story has been erased from history books—a story itself…
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A Hurricane Devastated Puerto Rico, but Donald Trump Only Cares About White People (Old Kanye Voice)
I know that it’s insane to want President Donald Trump to act presidential. I know that it’s insane to want him to stop tweeting like a boy-obsessed teen who can’t stop mean-girling. I know that it’s insane to want the president to stop emboldening and encouraging racist white hate. I also know the definition of…
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Earns Provisional Invitation to the Cookout
A few years ago I bought a house in Darlington, S.C., a town so small that there was nothing there but a gas station, a McDonald’s, a Huddle House (a bootleg, better-tasting Waffle House—fight me) and the Darlington Raceway, a 58,000-seat NASCAR track. I was shocked to see people the same color as me wearing…
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Car Dealership Pulls TV Ads With NFL Star Von Miller After He Takes a Knee
A Colorado car dealership curiously pulled all of its television ads featuring Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller after he took a knee to protest the flag, the national anthem, the military, white people, Donald Trump, injustice and inequality on Sunday. The Denver Post reports that a local television station’s claims that Miller was fired as…
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British Airways Flight Attendant Goes on Racist Rant About Nigerian Passengers and ‘BBC’
A British Airways flight attendant is now under investigation after a revealing Snapchat video showed her complaining about her job and the size of Nigerian passengers’ penises. According to Australia’s 9 News, the flight attendant recorded the video on her way to work Friday and complained about the Nigerian passengers she’d have to encounter. “All…
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TLC’s T-Boz Demands Justice for Cousin Killed by Ill. Police
T-Boz wants justice for her mentally ill 25-year-old cousin who was shot 18 times by Peoria, Ill., police after officers said surveillance footage showed him committing armed robbery at the First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust. But according to the singer, the officers’ stories aren’t matching up and have been changing over the last couple of…
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Grand Jury Will Not Indict Teen Charged With Choking Mom’s Abusive Ex-Boyfriend to Death
A grand jury has declined to indict a Bronx, N.Y., teen who was facing manslaughter charges in the death of his mother’s ex-boyfriend. Luis Moux, 18, told police that he was acting to save his mother’s life when he put 43-year-old Stanley Washington in a choke hold, which ended the older man’s life. As reported…
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‘We Still Have No Clue of What Being Born White Means’: San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Goes In on White Privilege
Media day for the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs at one point turned into an instance of coach Gregg Popovich delivering a speech that condemned Donald Trump’s recent comments about players protesting, called the United States an embarrassment to the world and called out white privilege for what it is. Popovich told the gathered reporters that…