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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…
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Omarosa Might Be Pushed Out for ‘Triggering’ Trump
The Trump administration might have a new secretary of stepping and fetching soon, since reports are beginning to surface that Omarosa Manigault is being pushed out of Trump’s inner circle by chief of staff John Kelly. According to a report by the Daily Beast, Manigault is the first casualty of the former general’s efforts to…
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Watch: Police Kill Another Person With Mental Illness, This Time in Ind.
Editor’s note: Warning: The video contains graphic content. On Tuesday, Ricky Ard was fatally shot multiple times by an Indiana police officer. The incident occurred outside a federal courthouse in Evansville after he smashed windows with a baseball bat. The Vanderburgh County coroner reported that Ard was in the midst of a schizophrenic episode and…
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Wells Fargo Uncovers 1,400,000 More Fake Accounts in Growing Sales Scandal
Nearly a year after news broke that Wells Fargo employees—under the pressure of meeting the bank’s cross-selling sales quotas—created 2.1 million fake accounts under the names of current customers, the bank has uncovered 1.4 million more fake accounts. The bank’s problems are now worse than previously thought. CNN Money reports that the additional fake accounts…
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Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Has Officially Left the White House. Who Else Thought He Was Already Gone?
Thursday marked the last official day of Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer’s tumultuous run as a member of President Ezekiel von FuckFace’s staff, and who knew? I mean, I loved the guy and I didn’t even know. In fact, I thought he’d been gone ever since Sarah Huckabee Sanders, aka Suckabee, took over the role of…