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Cop Shares Racist Facebook Post, Will Resign After Public Outcry
An officer with the Estherwood, La., Police Department came under fire Monday after he shared a racist post on Facebook. After deflecting and attempting to defend the post several times, the officer has reportedly decided to tender his resignation to the department Tuesday night. KATC first reported on the situation Monday, indicating that it would…
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Senate Confirms New FBI Director Christopher Wray
Christopher Wray, a former high-ranking official in former President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday and will step into a new role as director of the FBI. Wray will replace James Comey, who was fired by Donald Trump in May in the middle of the investigation into Russia’s involvement in…
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Cory Booker for the Win: NJ Senator Introduces Bill to Legalize Weed Nationwide
If anyone can beat the evil Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his hatred for marijuana, it’s the young, charming Democratic senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker. On Tuesday, Booker introduced, via Facebook Live, legislation to legalize marijuana on a federal level. Booker’s bill would decriminalize marijuana as a Schedule I drug and retroactively remove the…
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Intel Ponies Up $4,500,000 for STEM Scholarships at 6 HBCUs
As the numbers of women and people of color in Silicon Valley continue to be elucidated, it has become increasingly clear that there is a long way to go. One tech company, however, is investing in the talent pipeline while students are still in college, ostensibly to prepare them for work in the STEM (science,…
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A Conference Asked Hackers to See Which Voting Machines Could Be Breached: They Hacked All of Them
We might as well face it, y’all—they stole the election. If you didn’t believe it after the secret Russian house party with Donald Trump’s son (the dumb one, not the neo-Nazi one), the Paul Manafort canceled checks, Jeff Sessions and the Russian ambassador becoming “friends with benefits,” or Trump and Putin making out in the…
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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…