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Michelle Obama Teams Up With Spotify to Help Students Prepare for College
Former first lady Michelle Obama showed that her investment in the future of young people in our country is a real commitment by attending the Beating the Odds Summit at Washington, D.C.’s Dunbar High School on Thursday. Obama, as well as executives from Spotify—including Troy Carter, vice president of creator services, and Danielle Lee, VP…
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DC Cop Under Investigation for Wearing Shirt With KKK Symbol While on Duty
An officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., has been accused of wearing a shirt with a racist symbol on it while he was on duty, and he has now been placed on “noncontact status” pending the department’s investigation into the incident. Law4BlackLives, a group of lawyers who support the Black Lives Matter…
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Scaramucci Mane: Reince Priebus Sleeps With the Fishes (OK, He Didn’t Die, but He’s Out of the White House)
Well, who didn’t see this coming? Seriously, when the newly hired White House communications director makes a drunken call (who’s knows if Anthony Scaramucci Mane had been drinking, but if he hadn’t been, it’s worse) to a New Yorker reporter in which he hates on the president’s chief of staff, then you know heads are…
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The President Just Told a Room Full of White Cops That He’s Cool With Police Brutality. Here’s Why I’m Not Bothered
The president of dividing the United States is at again. If he isn’t on Twitter sending out transphobic, racist, sexist or xenophobic tweets, he’s holding speeches in front of hordes of like-minded followers. On Friday the president of white-American hatred delivered a speech to law-enforcement officers on Long Island, N.Y., during which he encouraged police…
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How James Harden Became the Real MVP of a Houston Strip Club
As the old folks say, James Harden has more money than God after signing the largest contract extension in NBA history earlier this summer. The extension will make Harden a Houston Rocket until the 2022-2023 season, and that likely makes Houston strippers happy, considering that Harden is reportedly one of their best customers. According to…
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Black Ukrainian Woman Faces 5 Years in Prison After Baring Breasts During Protest
Angelina Diash is a black woman, a native-born Ukrainian patriot. She loves her country but hates the direction in which it’s headed. Corruption is rampant. The leadership talks a good game about democracy, but at times, she says, it feels like a dictatorship. Though with a new, pro-Western government in office, Diash felt she at…
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Google Doodle Pays Tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the NAACP’s ‘Silent Protest’ Parade
Every now and again, Google shares a gem in the form of a doodle on its home page, recognizing dates that have some relevance to history, culture—anything like that. Today’s doodle marks the 100-year anniversary of the iconic Silent Protest Parade where some 10,000 African Americans marched in total silence to protest lynchings and other…
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Sen. John McCain Came Through and Laid That ‘No’ Down Like … : A Story Told in GIFs
Early Friday morning, the seven-year effort by Republicans to repeal Obamacare came to a thundering end—at least for now—when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came through and dropped that no vote down like: McCain’s unexpected no vote came against the GOP’s “skinny repeal” plan—basically a hodgepodge version of earlier Republican proposals to replace Obamacare—and, as I…
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A Black Man Trademarked the N-Word (the One With the ‘A’)
In what might be the first case of appropriation of white culture, a black man is trying to profit off something started by white people. As soon as the Supreme Court ruled that racial slurs and derogatory symbols could be trademarked, a Mississippi man rushed to file an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark…
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‘I’m Not Steve Bannon, I’m Not Trying to Suck My Own Cock’: How Scaramucci Mane Is Becoming the New Honey Badger
There is a very easy deplorables test that one can take at home, and it goes like this: If you feel bad for the new White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, aka Scaramucci Mane, or anyone one who has been inside the Oval Office in the past five months, then you probably are a deplorable.…