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Policing the Police Takes a Black Eye: Sessions Cuts Program That Investigates, Publicizes Police Department Shortcomings
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice showed once again that it is more concerned about police morale than it is about police failings when it announced that it would be eliminating a program that investigates local police departments and issues reports detailing what they are doing wrong. The Washington Post reports that the department’s…
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Auntie Maxine Waters to Jeff Sessions: ‘How Does It Feel to Be Dragged & Humiliated? Now You Know How the African Americans You Disrespected Feel’
God bless Auntie Maxine Waters, who is truly doing the Lord’s work. On Friday, Waters waded down into the murky mess to take a jab at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who might be the worst person in America not named Trump. “To Jeff Sessions, how does it feel to be dragged & humiliated? Now you…
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Employers May Soon Help With Student Loan Debt—but Will Black Grads Be Left Behind?
Many of us are all too familiar with the student loans, but thanks to a new program unveiled by Fidelity Investments, repayment aid from your employer may soon be an option. The problem? It probably won’t do much to address the deep racial disparities of the student debt crisis. According to BuzzFeed News, Fidelity announced…
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Activist Claims Video Shows Kenneka Jenkins Walking Into Hotel Freezer Alone; Jenkins’ Mother Says Family Was Misrepresented
Updated Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, 4 p.m. EDT: The family of Kenneka Jenkins have released a new statement, saying that they have not received video footage of their loved one walking into a hotel freezer. According to a family statement, tweeted out by CBS Chicago reporter Audrina Bigos, the family have “only been provided snippets…
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Ga. Teacher Uses Racial Slur While Attempting to Brush Off 4th-Grader’s Offensive Comments
Some people need to not open their mouths ever, and a Georgia fourth-grade teacher apparently needs to be added to the list after she apparently used a racial slur in exactly the same breath she used to dismiss another student’s controversial comments. A perfectly teachable moment, ruined. According to WTVM, the incident unfolded earlier this…
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Why Doesn’t Trump Want the Public to Know Who Visits Mar-a-Lago While He’s There?
President Donald Trump has worked hard to earn the title of the laziest president in office. Since taking over the reins from President Barack Obama (and black America’s forever president), Trump has spent some 25 days of his presidency at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., which his dumbass staff has named the “Winter…
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Ferguson, Mo., State Senator Survives Calling for Trump’s Assassination
I have said it before and I will say it again: Black women are Donald Trump’s kryptonite. There is not one group of people that seems to trigger the Trump administration more than black women, who are loud, proud and willing to call out his sheer incompetence, venality and existential danger to everything anyone hopes…
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An Astonishing Percentage of Americans Believe White People Are ‘Under Attack.’ Here’s Why They’re Wrong
This week, the polling company Ipsos released a poll in conjunction with Reuters and the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Most of the numbers coincided with what one would assume the average American thinks about subjects like Confederate statues, neo-Nazis and white nationalism, but there were two results that stunningly revealed the attitudes of…
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Shit Finally Hits the Fan in St. Louis … Like We Said It Would
What did you think would happen? Once, when I was visiting an elementary school classroom, a second-grader wanted to tell me about his trip to SeaWorld. He told me and the rest of the class about the dolphins, octopi, and all the rare and crazy fish he saw. Then he went into an elaborate story…
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Behold This Divine Image of Rihanna and Beyoncé Together Again
At long last, the twin stars of my life, Beyoncé and Rihanna, have converged to meet in the same picture. Not since the moon eclipsed the sun have I felt so moved. So small. So unworthy of the wonders of the universe. Behold: The occasion was Rihanna’s Diamond Ball, now in its third year, which…