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Mike Brown Movie Based on His Mother’s Memoir in the Works at Warner Bros.
Michael Brown was just 18 years old when he was gunned down in Ferguson, Mo., by Police Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. His death became a focal point in the Movement for Black lives, and now Hollywood studio Warner Bros. has a project in development to tell his story on the big screen. The…
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Color of Change, Movement for Black Lives Join National Father’s Bail Out Day
Color of Change and the Movement for Black Lives are joining local grassroots organizers to reunite incarcerated black fathers with their families and highlight the inhumanity inherent in the cash bail system by bailing out black fathers who would otherwise spend their Father’s Day in jail because they cannot afford bail. “For June, we want…
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Texas Governor Signs Bill Into Law Enforcing the Reporting of Police Shootings
Starting in September, any Texas law-enforcement agency that does not report a police shooting to the state attorney general within the allotted period could be fined $1,000 per day, with the penalty increasing if the agency commits the same infraction twice within a five-year period. On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 245 into…
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Minn. Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez Found Not Guilty on All Charges in the Shooting Death of Philando Castile
Updated Friday June 16, 2017, 5:04 p.m. EDT: The Associated Press reports that the city of St. Anthony plans to dismiss Jeronimo Yanez, the police officer who has been acquitted in the shooting death of Philando Castile. Updated Friday June 16, 2017, 4:21 p.m. EDT: Valerie Castile, the mother of Philando Castile, expressed her outrage…
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White Supremacists Are Mad at Right-Wing Nutjobs for Not Being Racist Enough
A hilarious troll has become a glaring example of the terrible plague of white-on-white violence. A group of Texas white supremacists have ignited a war with a right-wing militia movement that highlights the major differences between the contingent of low-IQ dullards who want to wipe out all nonwhite people from the face of the earth,…
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Trump Talks Cuba, but All I Heard Was ‘Assata Shakur’ and All I Saw Was a ‘Blacks for Trump’ Sign
President Donald Trump is continuing on his “I’m going to do the opposite of whatever Obama did” presidency tour, announcing Friday that he’s going to get tough on Cuba, including a demand that the communist country return American fugitives and name-checking Assata Shakur, née Joanne Chesimard. “Return the fugitives from American justice, including the return…
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Jeff Bezos Is Buying Whole Foods, Completing His Monopoly on Whiteness
Amazon.com, the other tab that is probably open on your browser right now, announced Friday that it has agreed to buy the high-end supermarket Whole Foods, the final step in owner Jeff Bezos’ lifelong mission of cornering the market on whiteness. If you want anything from mom jeans to farm-raised, vegetarian chicken wings or a…
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NJ High School Reprinting Yearbook to Include Students Wearing Pro-Trump Shirts
Earlier this week, a New Jersey high school teacher was suspended after the school yearbook was edited to remove Donald Trump logos and slogans from the clothing of two high school students. Now the school has announced plans to reprint the yearbook to correct the intentional changes. Wall Township School Superintendent Cheryl Dyer sent a…
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LeBron James Suffers Another Loss
On Monday, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers watched as the Golden State Warriors were crowned NBA champions. And now LeBron James has finally said goodbye to the struggle with his receding hairline. A video making the rounds on social media Wednesday shows a bald LeBron fully accepting his deficient hairline. It’s been a tough…
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Family of Terence Crutcher Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit, Seeks Police Reform
The family of Terence Crutcher is still seeking justice and filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday seeking damages and widespread reform of the Tulsa, Okla., Police Department. Crutcher was shot and killed in September by Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby, who was later acquitted of first-degree manslaughter in the case before returning to a cushy…