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Trump Jr. Just Confirmed That Russia Is, in Fact, the USA’s Play Cousin
If President Vladimir TrumPutin supporters want to know why the media keeps talking about TrumPutin’s connection to Russia, it’s because the president has connections to Russia. According to the New York Times, in June 2016, Donald Trump Jr., aka Not-Ivanka; Jared “Got Dem Visas” Kushner; and disgraced American Paul Manafort all met with a “Kremlin-connected…
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Okla. Man Proposes to Girlfriend While Being Arrested, and She Says Yes
Love has no limits for one Muskogee, Okla., couple. Like, seriously. What would you do if you were being arrested on six felony warrants on your 35th birthday? Well, Brandon Thompson decided, screw it all, and proposed to his girlfriend Leandria Keith. Police bodycam video captured the moment between the couple on the Fourth of…
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La. Cop, Wounded in Attack That Left 3 Officers Dead, Sues Black Lives Matter, DeRay Mckesson
A Louisiana law-enforcement officer has filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter, accusing the movement and several of its leaders, including DeRay Mckesson, of inciting violence that led to a gunman’s attack on officers in Baton Rouge, La., last summer, leaving three officers dead. According to the Associated Press, Mckesson and four other Black Lives…
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University of Md. Names New Diversity Officer After Racial Incidents, Including Killing of Black Student, on Campus
The University of Maryland has tapped a national leader in multicultural education as its new chief diversity officer after complaints from students about a hostile racial climate on the College Park campus and that the school was not doing enough. The Baltimore Sun reports that Roger L. Worthington has been chosen for the new post…
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3rd Mistrial for White Okla. Cop Who Killed Daughter’s Black Boyfriend
Saturday marked the third mistrial in nine months for a former Tulsa, Okla., police officer who admittedly shot and killed his daughter’s black 19-year-old boyfriend. The Associated Press reports that the Tulsa prosecutor on the case expressed shock when District Judge Sharon Holmes again declared a mistrial in the case against Shannon Kepler (Holmes has overseen…
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Recent Black College Grad Beaten to Death in Greece
A recent African-American college grad from Austin, Texas, was beaten to death Friday by a group of 10 men while visiting the Greek island of Zakynthos. Bakari Henderson, 22, was at a bar with his friends when a man approached him and they began fighting. Security asked the men to leave, and the brawl spilled…
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KKK’s Pathetic March in Charlottesville, Va., Met With Throngs of Protesters
Scores of protesters shouted down homegrown terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan as the reviled racists marched in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of Confederate statues from the city. USA Today reports that more than 1,000 multiracial demonstrators flooded this city’s downtown area Saturday to shout down about 50 Klan members, some of whom…
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Audio Interview Confirms DeJuan Guillory Was Unarmed, Lying on Ground When Cop Shot Him in the Back
Updated Saturday, July 8, 2017, 11:49 p.m. EDT: A new interview sheds light on the Mamou, La., death of DeJuan Guillory. The interview is with Joe Long, the attorney for DeQuince Brown, who witnessed an Evangeline Parish sheriff’s deputy shoot Guillory in the back on July 6, killing him. Pen Point News investigative reporter Daniel…
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Black Fox Business Host Suspended Over Sexual Harassment Claim
Is this equal opportunity misogyny? Fox Business Network—whose sister network Fox News has been accused of being a festering cesspool of sexual misconduct—has suspended one of its team over just that. Charles Payne, host of Making Money on Fox Business Network and one of a few African-American hosts there, has been suspended amid sexual harassment…
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Video Footage Exonerates Venus Williams in Fatal Car Crash
Video footage is turning out to be a real help for African Americans in this country, whose word is rarely taken as truth. And so it goes for tennis star Venus Williams, who, after enduring public shame and sadness over a car accident that ended a man’s life, appears not to have been at fault.…