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Petition Launched to Replace Christopher Columbus Statue With Prince Monument
In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed his three drop-top, fully loaded ships (the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria) on the coast of America, proving that the Earth was round. The Indians came out and threw a party for him and said, “You’re kinda cool, bruh,” and everyone lived happily ever after. Except none of…
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Black Excellence: 13-Year-Old Kimora Hudson Begins Classes at University of West Ga.
Skipping a grade or even two is one thing, but zooming over lots of them is a whole ’nother level. Which is exactly where Kimora Hudson is at in life—at 13 years old, she’s the youngest student enrolled at the University of West Georgia this fall. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Kimora will be at…
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The Small Man in the White House Moves to End DACA
Several news reports indicate that Donald Trump and his senior advisers met Sunday afternoon to discuss dismantling a federal program that allows undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children to legally work, destroying yet another one of former President Barack Obama’s signature actions, and dabbing to Trump’s racist base. Ending the Deferred Action…
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Cleveland Police Union Refuses to Hold Flag During Browns Opening Game, Calls Players’ Protest ‘Ignorant’
More police-union fuckery. Cleveland’s police union says it will not hold the American flag during a ceremony before the Cleveland Browns’ first game because some players knelt during the national anthem during the preseason. Cleveland.com reports that Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association President Steve Loomis made the announcement regarding the game, which is set for Sept.…
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Led by Cam Newton’s Little Brother, Howard U Pulls Off Largest Point Spread Upset in College Football History
If you were a betting person and put down $100 on the Howard University-vs.-UNLV football game Saturday, you would have walked away with $55,000. That’s because the Bison pulled off the largest point spread upset in college history—45 of them—led by Caylin Newton, the younger brother of famed quarterback Cam Newton. The Bison beat the…
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Philadelphia Police-Union Head Defends Nazi Cop, Calls BLM a ‘Pack of Rabid Animals’
For any significant change to American policing to occur, we have to deal with upend police unions, which wield extraordinary power and influence. Most times, police unions support their officers unconditionally, even when it’s more than obvious that police are in the wrong; they also tend to disparage victims of police brutality, as well as…
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Mad Magazine Remixes a Norman Rockwell Painting for the Age of Trump
In 1958, one of America’s most renowned painters, Norman Rockwell, created The Runaway, an oil on canvas that shows a nice policeman at a soda fountain counter lovingly giving what we’re sure are great words of advice to a scruffy white kid who is an obvious runaway because of that cute little stick and handkerchief…
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They Continue to Disparage Harriet Tubman, but There’s a Remedy for That
Not enough can be said about the queen Harriet Tubman. She is our black Moses. Freedom fighter. Union spy. Brilliant strategist. Abolitionist. God-fearing woman. Conductor of the Underground Railroad. Gangsta in the way that gangsta should be: warring against those who seek to oppress. So of course, Donald Trump and his ball-less, soulless Treasury Secretary…
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Autopsy Shows Pregnant, Mentally Ill Woman Charleena Lyles Shot 7 Times by Police
Recently, Damon Young of VSB wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece about why black folk should never, ever, ever, ever, ever call the police. And though—as black folk are wont to do—Young used humor to explicate a tragic reality, it is cases like Charleena Lyles’ that drive this home. Lyles was a 30-year-old black woman and mother…