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Trump Expected to Make Changes to US Cuba Policy in Miami This Week
For all those who didn’t get to go to Cuba during the two years after President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on travel to the country, you might be SOL.President Donald Trump is expected to make substantial changes to the U.S. policy toward Cuba in Miami on Friday. On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to terminate…
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Black Man’s Severed Head Found Near Headless Burned Body in Jackson, Miss.
Authorities in Jackson, Miss., are investigating two separate crime scenes that appear to be connected … or not, as it happens. On Saturday morning, a group of children found a severed head on the front porch of a home, WLBT reports. Hours later, a headless burned body was discovered less than a mile away. Both…
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Mo. Parole Board Plays Dumb Games With Prisoners, Urging Them to Say Words Like ‘Platypus’ and ‘Hootenanny’ During Hearings
In more news from the world of the white and privileged, members of the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole callously played with inmates during their parole hearings by trying to get them to say ridiculous words such as “platypus” and “manatee,” or mention specific song titles, for points. Don Ruzicka, a member of the…
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Cop in Philando Castile Shooting Death Goes With Same Old Defense: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’
It works nearly 100 percent of the time—even with clear video evidence—so it’s no surprise that the police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile said, “I thought I was going to die,” to explain his actions on that fateful day. Wiping away tears, St. Anthony, Minn., Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez on Friday sought to explain…
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Melanin Madness! Black Panther Trailer Drops and Folks Lose Their Minds
Everybody in the world was already watching Game 4 of the NBA Finals, and when the trailer for Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther dropped during a commercial break, folks lost their damn minds. And then took to Twitter to talk about it. Besides the fact that the sneak peak made clear that this would be a…
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Flint, Mich., Police Investigating After Facebook Video Shows Woman Dragged From House and Beaten
Police in Flint, Mich., have opened an investigation to find out the story behind a Facebook video posted Wednesday afternoon that shows a woman being dragged out of a house by what appears to be two men and beaten on the front lawn of the home by a group of three women. MLive reports that…
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Police Officers Who Beat Man, Then Lied About It, Face Federal Civil Rights Indictment
Two current and two former Boynton Beach, Fla., police officers are facing federal civil rights indictments related to a 2014 incident during which they beat a 26-year-old black man and lied about it in their official reports. The confrontation, which occurred after a police chase, was captured on video shot from a Palm Beach County…
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The Root to Host a #TrumpRoast to ‘Celebrate’ Your President’s Birthday
Your president, Donald Trump, turns 71 in just a few days, and honestly, I don’t care. What I do care about is getting the chance to poke fun at 45 with black comedians who are obviously hilarious but brilliant, too. We’re inviting you to join us in all the roasting fun! On Tuesday, June 13,…
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Trump: I’m Willing to Testify Under Oath About Comey’s Claims; Also, the President Is a Big-Ass Liar
We have a better chance that Birdman will release Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V than that President Donald Trump will release the James Comey mixtape, and here’s why: There ain’t no tape! He knows it, Comey knows it, everyone knows it; and Trump practically confirmed it Friday during a Rose Garden news conference with Romanian…