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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…
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Congratulations, Black Women! Today, You Finally Caught Up to White Men … Kinda
If the average black woman saved all her pay from 2016 and combined it with every penny she had earned through July 2017, the total would equal just what the average white man earned in 2016 alone. July 31 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. According to the Economic Policy Institute—a nonpartisan think tank focused…
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RIP, Anthony Scaramucci Mane: July 2017-July 2017
Anthony Scaramucci, aka Scaramucci Mane, aka Mucci Mane—the Wall Street businessman who had an embattled first week as the White House communications director—is now out of the job. Mucci Mane, who replaced White House press secretary Sean Spicer and was instrumental in the firing of White House chief of staff (and reported Mucci Mane nemesis)…
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Legally Blind Black Woman Outraged After Being Ordered to Sit in the Back of a Ga. Church
A Georgia woman is outraged at the way the church that she’d hoped would be her new home treated her, all because of her service dog. “They just left me no choice. It was like, ‘Either you move to that back pew or you leave their church,’” Cynthia Coleman, 58, of College Park, told news…
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Broke Becky, Pap Smears and Why I’m Afraid of White Women
No one ever taught me about Emmett Till. When I was 11 years old, I was sitting in a room filled with black men at my uncle’s New Jersey apartment. As they joked around with one another in the bawdy way men are apt to do when they’re by themselves, a traditionally attractive white woman…
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Shame on You Jeff Bezos! Amazon Data Center Threatens a Century-Old Black Va. Neighborhood
More than a few outraged citizens turned out this weekend to protest the fact that behemoth company Amazon.com, via its lackey Dominion Virginia, is attempting to seize 50 acres of land belonging to a mostly elderly African-American Northern Virginia community that dates back to slavery. The move would pave over residents’ homes and build power…