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#BlackGirlMagic: US Open Women’s Singles Semifinals Will Feature 2 American Black Women
The U.S. Open Women’s Singles Semifinals will be a display of American #BlackGirlMagic (word to CaShawn Thompson) when Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens face off in what is likely to be a match for the ages, and we are all very excited because yes, black girls who play tennis come through! Is Compton, Calif., in…
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Backlash Over Owner’s Donation to Ex-KKK Leader Forces Minneapolis Bar to Close
After finding out a Minneapolis club owner donated $500 to the 2016 Senate campaign of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, performers’ cancellations and customers’ boycotting forced the club to close last week. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that former employees of Club Jäger confirmed Friday that the club was closed, leaving 17 employees…
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Obama Blasts Trump on DACA and Reminds Us What a Real President Looks Like
If it wasn’t bad enough that the current president is a horrible evil racist with dictator ambitions, former President Barack Obama has posted a message about the Trump administration’s recent decision to rescind the immigration order that shielded children brought into this country as minors by undocumented parents from being deported and got us all…
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Ga. School District Apologizes After Teacher Tells Students They Can’t Wear Trump Campaign Shirts, ‘Just Like You Cannot Wear a Swastika’
A Georgia school district has issued an apology after a teacher reportedly told two students that their “Make America Great Again” T-shirts, representing President Donald Trump’s campaign, wouldn’t be allowed in the classroom. According to the Associated Press, the apology was issued after video was circulated online showing a math teacher at River Ridge High…
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Trump Ends DACA Because He Hates Us All
On Tuesday the Trump administration formally announced that it has rescinded the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, because it’s clear now that the Trump administration, from the bottom of its evil fire-burned feet to the very top of the last horn, hates us all. “I am here today to announce that…
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Singer Apologizes After Saying ‘Reggaeton Music Comes From Apes’
With hits like “Despacito” and “Mi Gente,” reggaeton has finally gone mainstream (translation: White people have discovered it). Although people around the world are falling in love with the music that blends Caribbean music, Latin tunes and hip-hop, there is at least one musician who is not a fan. According to Remezcla, Mexican superstar Aleks…
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If Trump Ends DACA, Obama Is Ready to Show Out
Former President, and my president for life, Barack Obama promised that he wouldn’t armchair-quarterback current President Donald von DoucheFace’s presidency. Mostly because he knew that Trump was a disaster waiting to happen and he didn’t want to have to continually answer to von DoucheFace’s slipups. But when it comes to the Deferred Action for Childhood…
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Richard Spencer’s Band of Hate-Mongers Sues Mich. State for Refusing to Allow Spencer to Speak on Campus
The organizer of white supremacist Richard Spencer’s speaking tour has decided to file a lawsuit against Michigan State University, claiming that the university violated Spencer’s First Amendment rights by refusing to give him a space to spread his hateful garbage speak on campus. According to the Detroit Free Press, the suit was filed late Sunday…
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Simeon Wright, Cousin Who Witnessed Emmett Till’s Kidnapping the Night of Emmett’s Brutal Murder, Dies at 74
Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till who witnessed Emmett’s kidnapping and was the last to see Emmett alive, died Monday morning in his home in Countryside, Ill., at the age of 74. Wright’s wife, Annie, confirmed that her husband had died after suffering from complications from a form of bone cancer, the Chicago Tribune…