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Noose Found Hanging From Tree in Montgomery County, Md.
Yet another noose has been found in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area, with police responding to reports of a noose seen hanging from a tree in a Montgomery County, Md., condominium community Thursday. Authorities say that they responded to a call in the Heron’s Cove Condominium neighborhood at 9:09 a.m. The synthetic rope noose found in…
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Dying Woman Dragged Half-Naked Down Crowded Airplane Aisle by Emergency Workers
A woman who experienced medical distress shortly after entering an airplane bathroom was dragged partially clothed down the aisle of the crowded commercial airline, much to the horror of other passengers, so that EMTs could render medical aid to her outside the plane. The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that the woman, identified by relatives as…
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Black Lives Matter Chicago Files Lawsuit Demanding Federal Oversight of City’s Police Department
Lawyers for Black Lives Matter Chicago and other community groups filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday accusing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel of trying to cut “a back-room deal” with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and demanding federal oversight of the city’s Police Department. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that six individuals and seven community groups are…
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ACLU Lawsuit Alleges Ga. Board of Education Disenfranchised Black Voters in School Board Selection Process
A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in Georgia alleges that the Crisp County Board of Education and the county election supervisor violated Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act by denying black voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process through its at-large method of electing Board of Education…
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Steve Harvey to Flint, Mich., Resident: ‘Enjoy Your Nice Brown Glass of Water’
The marginally talented mustache who makes millions screaming, “Survey says!” used the Flint, Mich., water crisis as a punch line for a joke on his radio show Wednesday morning. According to MLive, The Steve Harvey Morning Show took a call from a Flint resident who said of the Cavaliers’ NBA Finals loss that “Cleveland didn’t…
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James Hodgkinson Proves White Men Are Bulletproof
Today you will probably see one of the many thousands of articles positing the reasons a man took a rifle and opened fire at a congressional baseball practice in Arlington, Va. Every cable news pundit will explain how this newly toxic political environment fomented the hate and rage that led to James T. Hodgkinson’s brutal…
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Here Is Why LeBron James Will Leave Cleveland
The NBA season is done; the Golden State Warriors are champs. So now comes the speculation that only an NBA offseason can bring. With all the free agents available, it makes sense that NBA teams are looking at their finances to figure out how to form a supergroup. The largest name—hell, the biggest name in…
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Defense Calls for but Doesn’t Get Mistrial After Bodycam Footage of Sylville Smith’s Fatal Shooting Is Shown in Court
During the Wednesday-afternoon session of former Milwaukee Police Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown’s reckless homicide trial in the death of Sylville Smith, the public was able to see for the first time the shooting that sparked two nights of unrest in the city in August 2016. The video clip is short and shows then-Milwaukee Police Officer Ndvia…
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Possible R&B Supergroup: Vladimir Putin, Edward Snowden and Ex-FBI Head James Comey
Groups break up and form new groups all the time. LeVert disbanded, only for lead singer Gerald Levert to join up with Johnny Gill and Keith Sweat to form LSG. New Edition broke up, and members Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe and Ricky Bell reformed into the great BBD. So is a possible Vladimir Putin, Edward…
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Southern Baptists Are Apparently Cool With White Supremacy: Update
: Updated Thursday, June 15, 2017, 10:52 a.m. EDT: After a vociferous public outcry, the Southern Baptist Convention voted in favor of a resolution to condemn the white supremacist movement called the “alt-right” on Wednesday. The vote was met with a standing ovation from the 5,000 members gathered for the conference, which had refused to…