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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…
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Stephen Curry Took an Invisible Dump on the Cleveland Cavs Floor, and They Are Pissed
It was the late Game 3 moment, right after the Golden State Warriors’ Kevin Durant hit the heartbreaking late three-pointer, when Stephen Curry did what can only be explained as taking an invisible dump on the Cleveland Cavaliers game floor. Please take a look below and tell me I’m wrong; I’ll wait: Curry claims he…
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Police Shot Brendan Hester Because That’s What Police Do
A 23-year old black man in Ashtabula, Ohio, was shot by police officers last week after officers responding to a 911 call found two men scuffling in a home, one holding a weapon. The police ordered the man to drop the gun, but when he refused, the officers shot him. After searching the home, police…
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President Twitter Fingas Is Back Like He Never Left
Well, you knew Ol’ Donnie Boy wasn’t going to stay off Twitter forever. It took the president of white nationalism only a day to tweet his thoughts about former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony. I will admit that this was an unusually short Twitter tirade, but it covered the usual tone-deaf bases that we’ve come…
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Chicago Residents Come Together to Send Teen to Prom
Gage Park High School senior Shaday Gooden Brown of Chicago’s South Side was on a mission to get to prom. But she didn’t have the money to pay for her prom dress, so she decided to set up a stand to sell chips and snow cones to earn the cash. But she didn’t need to…