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New Orleans Begins Confederate-Monument Removal
New Orleans is severing its ties to the racist Confederate history that lingers in the city by removing several Confederate statues. Early Monday morning, city workers were to begin to take down the statues while it was still dark to avoid clashing with those wanting to preserve the history. “There’s a better way to use…
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7 More Black Employees Plan to Sue Fox News for Racial Discrimination: Report
Sexual harassment is apparently not the only thing toxic about Fox News’ culture. New York magazine reports that there are mounting allegations that there was also blatant racial discrimination at the network and that next week, seven black Fox News employees plan to join an existing racial discrimination suit filed last month. The original lawsuit,…
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Black Nurse, Sylvia Trent-Adams, Becomes Surgeon General After Obama Appointee Is Pushed Out
As has happened to other holdovers from the Obama administration, reps of Team Trump asked U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy to resign Friday. Murthy was replaced by his deputy, Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, one of the first nurses to serve as surgeon general. According to the New York Times, Trent-Adams will be in an…
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Jesse Jackson Calls for Facebook Live Moratorium
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is echoing the thoughts and feelings of many by calling for an end to Facebook Live—at least temporarily. Jackson and other Chicago officials want the company to drop its live function for 30 days In the wake of the death of 74-year-old Robert Godwin, who was shot and killed by Steve…
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Kamala Harris: ‘Trump’s Wall Is a Stupid Waste of Money’
Looks like those “California girls” (in this case elected officials) continue to tell it like it t-i-s. Like her colleague Rep. Maxine Waters, Sen. Kamala Harris had some direct words for President Donald Trump and his proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico, calling it “a stupid use of money.” The senator tweeted…
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Family of Aaron Hernandez Found Out Death Details on Twitter: Lawyer
Impossibly, the life and death of former NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez is becoming ever more tragic. His longtime lawyer now alleges that his family got information about his suicide earlier this week via “salacious details on Twitter.” According to Courthouse News Service, lawyer George Leontire said to Judge Thomas McGuire on Friday that these…
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Black State Senator Says It’s Time to Call Out the Racism That Is Rampant in Fla. Politics
Earlier this week, Florida state Sen. Frank Artiles made headlines after he referred to six black colleagues as “niggers.” At the same time, reports emerged that a black female state attorney had received a noose in the mail at her office in Orlando, Fla., in response to her refusal to pursue the death penalty in…
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You Have the Right to Remain Silent, but Can the Police Retaliate Against You for It?
If the police pull you over, it is your constitutional right to refuse to answer their questions, but does it violate the Constitution if they retaliate against you for refusing to answer their questions? That is the question at the center of a case that went before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th…
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Aaron Hernandez’s Closeted Sexuality May Have Been a Motive in Murder Case: Police Sources
Updated Friday, April 21, 2017, 6:09 p.m. EDT: After a report came out early Friday that Aaron Hernandez had left a suicide note in his cell addressed to a jailhouse lover, speculation as to whether or not Hernandez had a sexual secret began to circulate. Police sources are now confirming that Hernandez’s closeted sexuality is…
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Vice President Mike Pence Forces Reporters to Watch Hoosiers
I knew when I saw photos of Vice President Mike Pence in that dumb-ass leather jacket earlier this week that he was a big old movie buff. I figured it was all about Top Gun, but it turns out it was Hoosiers. Pence, aka Maverick, while on the latest leg of his Eastern Hemisphere tour…