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Black Lawmakers Call on Justice and the FBI to Help With Missing DC Girls
The Congressional Black Caucus recently reached out to the Justice Department and FBI, asking the federal agencies to help local police investigate a rash of black and Hispanic missing teens in the nation’s capital.* The letter, obtained Thursday by the Associated Press, was sent by Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) and Del.…
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Black Georgetown Employee Finds Out School Sold His Great-Great-Great-Grandmother
One Georgetown University employee recently found out that he was tied to the school by more than a paycheck. Jeremy Alexander, an executive assistant in Georgetown’s Office of Technology Commercialization, recently found out that his paternal great-great-great-grandmother, Anna Mahoney Jones, was one of the hundreds of slaves sold by two Jesuit priests at Georgetown to…
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GSA Gives Trump a Pass on His Conflict of Interest With the DC Trump International Hotel
While we were all distracted by the collapsing Jenga tower that is this current administration and its antics, President Donald Trump got good news Thursday when the General Services Administration said in a letter that the Trump Organization is in “full compliance” with its lease on its Washington, D.C., hotel. GSA oversees the 3-year-old lease…
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Federal Judge in Va. Rules on a Technicality in Favor of Trump’s Travel Ban
Because we know there had to be one, a federal judge in Virginia ruled in favor of President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban and in opposition to the decisions of judges who ruled before him—and providing ammunition to Justice Department lawyers who are arguing in favor of the ban in several courts across the U.S.…
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Fight for $15, Movement for Black Lives Plan Nationwide Protests to Fight Racism, Raise Pay
Fight for $15 and the Movement for Black Lives have joined forces for a nationwide protest on April 4 to fight racism, raise pay and resist the GOP crackdown on protest. Two of the nation’s most powerful social movements, including thousands of workers, elected officials and national civil rights leaders, will take to the streets…
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Trumpcare Pulled Because Like the President, the Bill Hates Old and Poor People
Trumpcare got all dressed up with no place to go. President Orange Assclown pulled his shitty health care bill at the eleventh hour because it was so bad that even House Republicans couldn’t get behind it. After all this huffing and puffing, and seven years of Republicans swearing that they would get rid of Obamacare,…
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Wendy’s Employee Fired Over Receipt With N-Word on It
A Wendy’s employee was given the boot after a black Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted an old receipt near the worker’s station that had the n-word on it. According to the Click Orlando, the trooper was in line to get his dinner Tuesday night at an Orlando restaurant when he saw the receipt next to…
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White House Budget Director: Don’t Like Trumpcare in Your State? Change Your State
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has been working tirelessly to push this bullshit Republican health care bill through the House. When grilled by CBS This Morning about the 10 essential health benefits (EHBs), including maternity care and mental-health and substance-abuse treatment, that were covered under Obamacare but would be cut from the…
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#MissingDCGirls Finally Caught People’s Attention, but How Do You Bring Them Home?
On March 12, 2017, I wrote about the number of black and Latino teens who have gone missing in the Washington, D.C., area since February. At the time, 10 teens, including one young man, were missing. The Metropolitan (D.C.) Police Department reported that a few had been found, but there were still missing cases open.…
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Pa. Mother Arrested After Allegedly Assaulting Her Daughter for Reciting Bible Verses Incorrectly
A Pennsylvania woman was arrested after allegedly assaulting her daughter and kicking the girl out of the house because the child could not recite Bible verses correctly. According to Penn Live, Rhonda Kemp Shoffner, 41, of Middletown, is facing charges of child endangerment, strangulation aggravated assault against a child and terrorist threats related to the…