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NYC Will Pay $380,000 to Family of Rikers Island Inmate Who Hanged Himself Days After Being Taken Off Suicide Watch
In more terrible news for the embattled Rikers Island jail, New York City (really, taxpayers who live or work in New York) has agreed to pay out $380,000 to the family of a 24-year-old housed at the jail who hanged himself shortly after being taken off of suicide watch. The New York Daily News reports…
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Wait, NBC Sports Announcer Mike Tirico Isn’t Black?
Wait … hol’ up. Normally when we wade into these blackness waters, it’s because some fair-skinned pop star is refusing to accept that the back of her hair—you know, the area above the neck; the area that old folks call the “kitchen”; the area that used to make my sisters cry when my mom really…
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Cops Release Bodycam Footage of White Privilege Gone Wild After Woman Claims Sexual Assault
I know one of the things white people get tired of hearing is the line, “If he were white, that never would have happened.” They heard it about Trayvon Martin. They heard it about Mike Brown. Most recently, after police partially justified the killing of Philando Castile by saying the officer smelled marijuana in his…
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Jury Awards More Than $15,000,000 to Family of Unarmed Black Man Killed by SWAT Sniper in Wash. State
A federal jury unanimously decided that police violated the rights of a 30-year-old black man when a family argument escalated into an attack during which the man was shot by a SWAT sniper in front of his young son. According to the Seattle Times, on Friday the jury decided to award the family of Leonard…
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Black Female Judge From Texas Accused of Sexting in Courtroom, Buying Drugs From Bailiff
Substance abuse affects us all, even those of us who ascend to the highest heights, apparently. A black Texas judge has been suspended amid accusations that she sexted in the courtroom, used a bailiff to buy drugs, hired prostitutes and once brought home marijuana seized from a defendant, according to the Washington Post. Hilary H.…
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$10 Says O.J. Will Be Paroled This Week, but Naysayers Bet Wypipo Ain’t Never Letting This Dude Out
Will white folk forgive the craven racial-sexual tragedy that was O.J. Simpson, a man deified, deracialized and built up, but then reviled and hated, exposing the racial rift in this country that always was? Be clear: Folks built their careers off of O.J.: Greta Van Susteren. Harvey Levin and TMZ. The nascent Kardashian brand. Just…
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Chicago Cop Accused of Beating Black Woman in Handcuffs Owns Several Racist Web Domains: Report
The city of Chicago is set to pay out yet more money to yet another victim of its abusive police force—the same city in which taxpayers doled out nearly a quarter billion dollars during a four-year span—but that’s a whole other story. In one of the latest payout cases, lawyers for Patassa Johnson—who alleges that…
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The Palace Goes Black … Will It Ever Go Back? (No, We’re Not Talking About Prince Harry and Meghan Markle)
No, we are talking about the new personal assistant selected by Queen Elizabeth Ii: the first black equerry in British history. Maj. Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, a 38-year-old officer who fought in the Afghanistan War, will fill one of the most important roles in the royal household, according to reports. “I would have never imagined that…
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British MP Suspended After Dropping N-Word in Brexit Discussion
If you think the n-word is an American tradition/phenomenon/slur, think again. A British lawmaker has been suspended after a recording surfaced of her using the racial slur to describe the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union without a deal. Anne Marie Morris, the ruling Conservative Party’s chief whip, made the remark Monday during a…