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Baltimore Drops 43 Police Cases After Cops ‘Fake’ Another Bodycam Video (Yes, That Makes 3)
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby has identified at least 43 cases that will be dismissed after a police officer basically admitted to faking a police video, leaving many people wondering, “Damn, are there any criminals in Baltimore, or are B-more cops out on the streets making their own episodes of The Wire every…
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LeBron James’ Destruction of the Cleveland Cavaliers Is Complete: Kyrie Irving Headed to Boston Celtics
LeBron James has single-handedly destroyed the Cleveland Cavaliers’ franchise twice now. The first go-round was shortly after the team invested tons of money to try to build a franchise around him and he bolted to the Miami Heat. But the Cavaliers recovered, thanks to some draft luck and landing perennial All-Star Kyrie Irving; and then…
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Trump-Branded Hotel to Celebrate the Antebellum South—You Know, Back When Blacks Were Slaves
A planned Cleveland, Miss., Trump-branded hotel will celebrate the antebellum South with a replica-style Southern plantation complete with a cotton-gin-styled meeting hall, because of course it would. The project, which will bear the Trump name, will cost some $20 million and will reportedly have “a resort-caliber pool, place decorative balconies on the main building, and…
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Ga. Woman Fired Over Period Leaks: Report
For nearly 10 years, Alisha Coleman worked as a 911 dispatcher for a facility that helps people with disabilities. Coleman claims that in 2016 she lost the job that she loved after experiencing symptoms associated with premenopause. Coleman has teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union after being abruptly let go by the Bobby…
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Steven Mnuchin’s Wife Gets Called Out for Flossin’ on the ’Gram and Has the Whitest Response Ever
Actress Louise Linton, wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, got called out for being extra for the ’gram after she hashtagged her Valentino shoes and her Hermès scarf in a photo of herself and her deplorable stepping off Air Force One. And, like most white women spoiled and privileged, she took the opportunity to launch…
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Mo. Governor Stays Execution of Convicted Inmate Amid New DNA Evidence That May Prove His Innocence
Updated: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017; 3:30 p.m. EDT: Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has issued a stay of execution in the case of Marcellus Williams, who was scheduled to to die Tuesday, possibly saving the life of an innocent man, for now. According to CNN, Greitens also appointed a board to further consider Williams’ case. Williams…
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12 Cleveland Browns Players Took a Knee During the National Anthem and Colin Kaepernick Still Doesn’t Have a Job
The protest started by Colin Kaepernick to bring awareness and concern to the killing of unarmed black men, women and children by police has continued even though the free agent quarterback still doesn’t have an NFL home. On Monday, before their game against the New York Giants, a dozen Cleveland Browns players took a knee…
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KKK Leader Called Univision Reporter the N-Word, Threatened to ‘Burn’ Her as She Conducted Interview
A Univision news anchor, who has the patience of a saint and a will of steel, somehow managed to get through an interview with the leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter who called her a nigger and threatened to burn her, all while she was doing her job. The incident started when Christian Barker,…
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Well, What Do You Know? Turns Out the White Women Wearing ‘MAGA’ Hats Didn’t Just Wander Onto Howard’s Campus
Anyone who lives in Washington, D.C., or has ever been to D.C. knows that one of the best things about the city is that we keep our monuments close. In fact, everyone who lives here already knows not to go anywhere near that traffic during the summer months because tourists are going to tour. So…
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Va. Catholic Priest Temporarily Steps Down After Revealing That He Was Once a Member of the KKK
An Arlington, Va., Catholic priest has decided to temporarily step down after revealing that before becoming a member of the clergy, he used to burn crosses as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The Rev. William Aitcheson revealed his dark past in an editorial published Monday in the Arlington Catholic Herald, speaking candidly about…