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Betsy DeVos Spoke at Bethune-Cookman and It Went Worse Than Expected
A week ago, Bethune-Cookman University, an HBCU located in Florida and named after Mary McLeod Bethune, announced that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos would be the school’s commencement speaker, and the news went over like a lead balloon. DeVos, a leader in “school choice” with no qualifications for her position besides being a rich white…
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Neo-Nazi Leader Orders White Supremacists to Harass American University’s 1st Black Female Student Body President
After American University elected the first African-American woman to lead its student body, the white supremacist leader who founded one of the largest hate sites on the internet began an online campaign to troll her and her sorority with racist taunts, according to a report by ABC News. Taylor Dumpson recently began her tenure as…
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#StayWoke: President Meets With Russians Day After Comey Firing
So James Comey, the man who was investigating the White House’s relationship with Russia as FBI director, has been fired, and the very next day, President Vladimir TrumPutin hosts Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. And, get this, the Russian media were reportedly allowed inside the meeting for photos, while U.S. media were not. That truly…
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Passengers Get Into Fistfight on Southwest Plane Shortly After It Lands in Calif.
I am really not sure what is going on in the world today, with all this controversial airline news—from racism by the airlines themselves to horrible and even threatening “customer service,” to petty fights on board between passengers—but apparently no airline is safe. Some passengers aboard a Southwest plane that landed in Burbank, Calif., got…
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Kellyanne Conway Is Back, and My Heart Is Full
The best thing about FBI Director James Comey’s firing is that it brought Kellyanne Conway back, and I can’t lie: I’ve missed her. Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer has gotten a bit better at dodging questions about this dodgy-ass administration, but Conway is pure. Conway really is purely unaware of how to handle, talk about, discuss…
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99 Percent of Students Handcuffed in NYC Schools Were Black or Hispanic: Report
For a child to succeed in any area of life as an adult, he or she must start learning early. This is true in academics and athletics, and apparently it is true when it comes to creating an irrational fear of cops and training people of color to become accustomed to police abuse. In New…
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A Conspiracy Theorist’s Guide to FBI Director James Comey’s Firing
President Vladimir TrumPutin and his Big Baller Brand-ass administration is like N.W.A when they dropped their first album. They’re brash, abrasive and in-your-face. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if TrumPutin, Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer, Steve “Big Poppa” Bannon and Jared “Got Dem Visas” Kushner just walked out of the Oval Office like this:…
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White Mich. Cop Faced Racial Taunts After Ancestry.com Test Showed He’s 18 Percent Black: Lawsuit
There are just some things you can’t make up, and apparently, a white Hastings, Mich., police officer is claiming that he has been subjected to racial taunts and other hurtful comments from within his own department after he took a genetic test on Ancestry.com that revealed he is 18 percent black. Sgt. Cleon Brown claims…
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Police: Va. Man Attacked Black Woman Because of Her Race, Spat on Cops During His Arrest
A Chesterfield County, Va., man is facing multiple charges after police say he dragged a black woman out of her car and attacked her based on her race and then later spat on officers as he was being arrested. Matthew R. Ellis, 27, is facing charges of abduction and kidnapping, two counts of assault and…
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‘Hero’ SC School Bus Driver Evacuates 56 Students in Less Than a Minute During Fire
Not all heroes wear capes. Some are bus drivers. And one Spartanburg County, S.C., bus driver is being aptly dubbed a hero after managing to evacuate 56 students in under a minute after a school bus caught fire Tuesday morning. According to Fox Carolina, the school bus being driven by Teresa Stroble somehow caught fire…