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Meghan Markle’s Dad Claims Prince Harry Told Him to ‘Give Donald Trump a Chance’
One would think that once Meghan Markle had officially married Prince Harry and started to form a routine, her white relatives would take a chill pill, simmer down, stop embarrassing her and crawl back into the messy closet from whence they came. Alas, apparently that is not the case, at least not with Thomas Markle,…
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Flipping the Narrative: Movement to Publicly Honor Black Journalists and Newspapers Grows
This weekend, two trailblazing black newspapers were honored in New Orleans’ French Quarter with a new bronze plaque that heralds their achievements and their contributions to America’s black press and, by extension, black life. L’Union and la Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orleans (the New Orleans Tribune) circulated among a vast national readership during the Civil War…
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Texas Deputy Accused of Sexually Assaulting 4-Year-Old Girl, Threatening to Deport Victim’s Undocumented Mother
A Bexar County, Texas, sheriff’s deputy is being accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl while threatening the girl’s mother with deportation in order to get her to stay quiet about the abuse, authorities revealed Sunday. Jose Nunez, who has worked with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Department for 10 years, was arrested early Sunday,…
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22 Injured at Trenton, NJ, Arts-Festival Shooting
A 13-year-old boy is among the 22 people injured after a shooter opened fire at a 24-hour arts festival in Trenton, N.J., early Sunday around 2:45 a.m. The suspect, a 33-year-old man, is reportedly dead and another suspect has been taken into custody, according to CNN. The shooting may have started with a “neighborhood beef”…
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Roger Stone Claims Russian National Offered ‘Dirt’ on Hillary Clinton in Exchange for $2 Million
Roger Stone said that a Russian national approached him in May 2016 with damaging information about Hillary Clinton and wanted $2 million in exchange, the Washington Post reports. Calling himself Henry Greenberg, the man offered compromising information on Clinton, Donald Trump’s presumptive general election Democratic opponent at the time, but did not detail exactly what…
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Washington, DC, Is Being Sued for Gentrification
A civil rights lawyer is suing Washington, D.C., for what he claims are the city’s discriminatory housing and urban-renewal policies that favor white millennial renters over long-standing black residents, according to DCist. Aristotle Theresa out of nearby Anacostia is representing three native Washingtonians and community group CARE. The lawsuit claims that the policies of the…
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Ex-Cambridge Analytica Employees Are Working on Trump’s 2020 Campaign
Former employees of Cambridge Analytica, the political firm that went down in flames over how it acquired Facebook users’ data, is now working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to the Associated Press. Cambridge Analytica’s former head of product, Matt Oczkowski, leads Data Propria, the new firm that is quietly working with Trump’s 2020…
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Sen. Marco Rubio Has Thoughts on Kanye West, Pusha T and Drake … Random, Confusing Thoughts
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) posted a video of himself on his social media accounts talking about Kanye West’s new album. And it was pretty odd. “I don’t know anything about Kanye West’s new album other than I guess he premiered it out there in Wyoming and invited a bunch of people,” Rubio said. “He’s an…
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Google Has a Hard Time Keeping Black Employees
Google has released a report admitting that it is struggling to keep its black employees. “Attrition rates in 2017 were highest for Black Googlers followed by Latinx Googlers, and lowest for Asian Googlers,” the report says (pdf). “Black Googler attrition rates, while improving in recent years, have offset some of our hiring gains, which has…