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1 Dead as Car Plows Into Group of Counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va.
Updated Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, 4:15 p.m. EDT: The mayor of Charlottesville, Va., confirmed that one person was killed as a car rammed into a crowd during a white nationalist protest Saturday afternoon. Mayor Mike Signer tweeted: “I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here. I urge all people of good will—go home.”…
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Help Me Find the Lie: DNC Leader Keith Ellison Calls GOP ‘the Party of Racism’
In today’s water-is-wet news, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)—arguably one of the realest to ever do it—told guests gathered at Netroots Nation conference on Friday that the “Republican Party today is the party of racism” and former President Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t kick it with these racists. “You hear Republicans say, ‘We’re the party of Lincoln.’ He…
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At Least 1 NFL Player Isn’t Scared to Protest
While free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still without an NFL home for his protest against the killing by police of unarmed African-American men, women and children, he still has at least one NFL supporter. Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, who’s been a champion of Kaepernick’s protest since the beginning, continued his silent protest of…
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You Might Want to Cut Back on Those Boozy Brunches—Black Alcoholism Rate Doubles, Says New Study
Maybe hooch going mainstream is not so good. Odes to your favorite ah-ah-ah-ah-alcohol brands can be heard in popular music; you can now buy wine at the grocery store with your cat food; and Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford actually drink wine in the morning and people think this is OK (I never thought…
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White Supremacists Pop Off in Va. and Police Don’t Seem to Give a Damn. Why Is That?
Updated Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, 11:35 a.m. EDT: The racists are still marching with guns and hair-trigger tempers, but the police have taken a unique “hands off” approach to the melee and letting these white men enjoy the very privilege that they whine is being taken from them. CNN reports that at least two people…
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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…