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Trump Election Commission Member Suggests Jim Crow Laws Worked Better
I wish that headline contained hyperbole. I wish it were made up. It is not. The man President Donald Trump has placed in charge of “election integrity” recently lauded the laws from the Jim Crow era designed to keep blacks from voting. Before you scream, “What the fuck!” allow me to clearly explain. See ……
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Canada’s Ex-Poet Laureate Stole From Tupac and Maya Angelou in the Greatest Cultural Appropriation of All Time
Move over, Taylor Swift. Kendall and Kylie, have as many seats as you need. There’s a new front-runner for The Root’s second-annual Wypipo Awards, and even though the nominations have not yet been formally submitted, I have a feeling that Pierre DesRuisseaux might be 2017’s runaway winner. Pierre DesRuisseaux is a prolific poet and writer…
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This Wine Writer Has the Perfect Drink to Wash the Bitter Taste of Slavery Out of Your Mouth
This year has already been a high-water year in the annals of American whiteness, and we’re only nine months in. Now the Canadian newspaper the Toronto Star wants you to hold its wine, cuz it’s ready to serve you the whitest thing you’ve read this month. The paper recently came under fire for a story…
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How 1 of America’s Deadliest Police Forces Gets Away With Shooting and Killing Black People
On Monday, Nov. 13, 2013, a man called 911 and said he was the victim of a carjacking. The caller said a black woman he didn’t know asked him for a ride, and when he let her in, a black man jumped in with her, pointed a gun at him, stole his 2003 Toyota RAV4…
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Nigerian Man Scams US Companies out of $3,700,000, Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison
If you are tasked with handling company finances, you may want to double- and triple-check the next time you seemingly get an email from your CEO asking you to wire company money elsewhere. According to the Dallas Morning News, one Nigerian man was able to scam several U.S. companies out of millions of dollars by…
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Apparently, Omarosa Was the White House’s Willona From Good Times
Ever since Omarosa Manigault was hired by the Trump administration, she has been the most prominent of “Trump’s blacks,” even though no one can explain what she actually does inside the White House. Was she hired to reach out to black America? Is she simply a token employed to give the Trump administration street cred?…
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YouTuber PewDiePie Uses Racial Slur During Live Video Game Streaming
Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg may be YouTube’s highest-grossing user, but he’s also back in the limelight for his use of a racial slur. But it’s not his first time at the racist rodeo. On Sunday afternoon, Kjellberg, 27, was streaming and playing “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds,” when he went on a rant, and let the n-word “slip” through:…
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Chicago Woman Found Dead in Ill. Hotel Freezer
A 19-year-old Chicago woman was found dead early Sunday morning inside the freezer of a Rosemont, Ill., hotel, police say. Kenneka Jenkins was last seen early Saturday morning while attending a party on the ninth floor of the Crowne Plaza hotel. She was reported missing hours later around 1:15 p.m. Saturday before ultimately being discovered,…
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DC Protesters Remember Terrence Sterling, Unarmed Motorist Killed by Police, 1 Year Later
Before the sun came up Monday morning, protesters had gathered at Third and M streets in Northwest Washington, D.C., to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Terrence Sterling, an unarmed man who was shot and killed by police after his motorcycle hit a cruiser. The morning began with a candlelight vigil at 4:20…