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Houston Community Activist Throws Money at School Board: ‘Everything Is Money-Driven Around This Place … You Don’t Care About Those Kids!’
Gerry Monroe, community activist and executive director of United Urban Alumni Association, caused a stir at Thursday night’s Houston Independent School District meeting when he accused the board members of being money-hungry and uninterested in the welfare of HISD schoolchildren. “Won’t you give them people their money?” Monroe said, as if repeating what others have…
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A Marijuana Company Just Bought a Calif. Town Between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It’s Lit! (Or Is It?)
When recreational marijuana goes live in California in January 2018, folks traveling along Interstate 15 in the state will have an additional pit stop between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The small city of Nipton was just purchased by a cannabis company that wants to turn the town into a marijuana resort of sorts. Nipton…
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Civil Asset Forfeiture Seems to Target Poor Black and Brown People. Why Is That?
We’ve discussed civil asset forfeiture before. This is the practice that allows law enforcement to take your cash, cars, home and any other property away from you if you are suspected of a crime. No conviction is necessary, and you don’t even have to be a drug dealer to be a target. Last month, U.S.…
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Airbnb: We’re Not Racist! One of Our Best Friends Is Black!
Taking a page from the manual How to Apologize After You’ve Marginalized a Community, Airbnb announced a new partnership with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that will see the company donating money to the NAACP and … Well, it’s not really “donations,” per se. The new agreement is more like revenue…
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The Man Dance Between Trump and North Korea Continues; President Tweets That US Military Is ‘Locked and Loaded’
Donald Trump just won’t shut the hell up. Seriously. He won’t stop trying to get America into a nuclear war with the most unstable leader in the world. In fact, Guam—Guam, of all places!—is currently being threatened because the president won’t stop talking, or tweeting. At this rate, President Vladimir TrumPutin might be the first…
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Fla. Day Care Van Driver Charged With Manslaughter After 3-Year-Old Left in Van for 11 Hours Died
A Florida day care van driver is facing charges in the death of a 3-year-old boy who was left in a sweltering hot van for 11 hours before being discovered. According to the Washington Post, Deborah Denise St. Charles was arrested on charges of aggravated manslaughter in the death of little Myles Hill, who was…
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Donald Trump: Putin Is Bae, and No One Can Stop Our Love!
The media needs to stop trying to break up President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump gave Putin his final rose, and at this point they have a miniature poodle named Flynn and a Prius they share. Sure, the commoner would think that asking about the Russian president’s decision to force the U.S. Embassy…
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Racist Note Signed ‘KKK’ Left on Windshield of Black Woman’s Car
Man, black people can’t even park in peace without being harassed. Philadelphia police have launched an investigation into a racist note that was left on the windshield of a car a black woman had parked on a predominantly white block in the city’s Mayfair neighborhood, Fox 29 reports. The note read, “Nigger, do not park…
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2 White Cops Steal Weed From Evidence Locker, Sell It and Get Off With Probation Because Their Families Had ‘Already Suffered’
Imagine being a sheriff’s deputy and being so white that after you and your fellow deputy confess to stealing weed from the sheriff’s office’s evidence locker, selling it in the community with the help of a former snitch who puts it out on the street for you, and then sharing the profits in a three-way…