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Please, Black Jesus, Let This Be True: Is Former Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick Eyeing a 2020 Run for the White House?
It sounds as if the team of former President—and black America’s president on a rent-to-own basis—Barack Obama is pushing for Obama’s friend former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to run for president in 2020. According to Politico, Obama and close adviser Valerie Jarrett have encouraged Patrick to consider a run for office. Jarrett was also quoted as…
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Amazon Is Also Making a Civil War Alt-History Series, but It’s for Us, by Us
Even before HBO thought it was a great idea to have two white men explain how 400 years of slavery was horrible by imagining a modern-day version of it, Amazon.com had its own alternative-history series in the works. Deadline reports that Aaron McGruder, the creator of the Peabody Award-winning animated series The Boondocks, has been…
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NYC Cop Who Killed Dwayne Jeune Shot Another Mentally Ill Man Last Year: Report
The officer who shot and killed 32-year-old Dwayne Jeune on Monday reportedly shot another man in mental distress late last year. On Monday the New York City Police Department identified Officer Miguel Gonzalez of the 67th Precinct in the borough of Brooklyn as the cop who pumped five bullets into Jeune after his mother called…
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Just When Jeff Sessions’ Seat Is Up for Special Election, a Judge Rules That Ala. Doesn’t Have to Tell Felons They May Be Able to Vote. Hmmm
Although there are small victories holding against the tide of voter suppression, there is still a long way to go. A federal judge ruled Friday that Alabama election officials don’t have to tell those affected about a change in state voting qualifications that may give thousands of convicted felons the right to vote. HuffPost reports:…
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Minn. Police Training Fund Won’t Be Named After Philando Castile After All Because That Would Be Too Much Like Right
In an 8-2 vote on Thursday, the Minnesota peace officer training board declined to name a police training fund after Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man shot and killed by police last year for … driving while black. As reported by The Root, on the one-year anniversary of Castile’s shooting death at the hands of…
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Court Rules for Redistricting in NC to Address Racial Discrimination
On Monday, three federal judges in North Carolina ordered the state Legislature to draw up new legislative-district boundaries within a month. The current boundaries drawn by Republicans are considered unacceptable, The Hill reports. The ruling, which was unanimous, affects 28 of the state’s 170 General Assembly districts. The court has ruled that the current boundaries…
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#SafetyIs: Night Out for Safety and Liberation Happening Tonight
For working-class and poor black and brown communities in the United States of America, the concept of safety—particularly when it is dependent on hypermilitarized police forces—is a flimsy, dangerous illusion. One move, one word—or no moves and no words—standing, running, driving or breathing have all been charges leveled against black and brown people and deemed…
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Will New Chief of Staff John Kelly Be the Next Contestant Fired on White House Apprentice?
Previously on White House Apprentice, Anthony Scaramucci’s storyline was getting all the headlines and camera time. In the weird Big Brother-Survivor-Apprentice interpolation that is Donald Trump’s administration, there is only room for one star in front of the camera—your megalomaniac president—so Scaramucci Mane was kicked out of the house. Although Attorney General Jeff Sessions has…
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NYPD Guns Down Yet Another Black Person in Mental Distress, This Time in Brooklyn, NY
This story is becoming frighteningly more common and ever more distressing. A person calls 911 to help a loved one in a mental-health crisis, and said loved one is then shot and killed by police. Sometimes the person is “armed” with a bat or a knife, sometimes not. This sad tale was told once again…
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St. Louis Woman Filed Complaint Against Police, Then Stole Investigator’s Gun: Report
A St. Louis woman has been charged with felony stealing after authorities say she went to the city’s Civilian Oversight Board to file a complaint against the police and ended up stealing an investigator’s gun while in the building. Latoca Lashai Davis, 27, went to file an undisclosed complaint against police on Thursday when officials…