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Alabama’s Republican Nominee for Chief Justice Might Be the Only Judge More Racist Than Roy Moore
The man who could replace Roy Moore as the next chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court is a lot like Moore—only more racist and homophobic. Let’s be clear. Roy Moore is a racist. Moore insinuated that the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, should be repealed. He said that the last time America was great was…
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Philadelphia Police Department Changes Trespassing Policy After Starbucks Incident
The Philadelphia Police Department announced that it will change the way officers handle trespassing calls after a debacle in which two men were arrested in a Center City Starbucks café for possession of blackness with intent to exist. In April, Starbucks employee Holly Hilton alerted police officers to the presence of Rashon Nelson and Donte…
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Wakanda Mess Is This? Teacher Believes Wakanda Is a Real Country After Student’s Presentation
I can’t believe wypipo really think Wakanda is real. A Marvel fanatic and college student, known as AlexeyShved1 on Reddit, gave a presentation on Wakanda, its economy and power struggle. The student’s professor surely believed the presentation because she’d never even heard of the Black Panther movie! The whole thing came about after the student…
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NYC Schools Chancellor Tells Desegregation Opponents: No One ‘Owns Admission’ to Top Schools
New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza minced no words Tuesday when he addressed Asian activists opposing a new plan to desegregate the city’s specialized public schools. Members of some Asian communities had expressed outrage over a new plan that would change the admissions process for the city’s most competitive and prestigious high schools, calling…
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Trump Wants to Posthumously Pardon Muhammad Ali, Who Rolled Over in His Grave so the President Could Kiss His Ass
Not sure if Donald Trump believes that all deceased black boxers need pardoning or if he just likes pardoning things, but during his nearly 18-minute rant on the White House lawn Friday before heading off to embarrass America once again on the global stage at the G-7 summit, the president floated the idea of pardoning…
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Trump Wants to Ask Kneeling NFL Players Whom He Should Pardon Next
President Donald Trump won’t handle the basic duties of presidenting, like not tweeting from the White House executive bathroom in the early morning, but now he’s becoming the Oprah of pardons. For some reason unbeknownst to anyone, Trump offered to speak with NFL players who have kneeled during the national anthem in protest of the…
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Energetic and Nostalgic Performances by Bell Biv DeVoe, Tony! Toni! Toné and More Helped the Apollo Spring Gala Raise Over $2 Million
This week the legendary Apollo Theater celebrated the 13 years of its star-studded annual Spring Gala. Every year the iconic Harlem landmark gathers every ounce of black excellence it can find to raise funds for its year-round artistic- and community-programming initiatives. Guess how much they raised this year? No … guess. Over $2 million! Yeah,…
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Food Truck Worker Who Attacked Black Woman Says ‘I’m African, Too’
Islam El Masry, the Portland, Ore., food truck driver caught on video throwing a Gatorade bottle at a black customer and verbally abusing her, wants you to know that he’s not a racist. “My father is black. I’m African, too,” the owner of the Small Pharoah food cart told KGW-TV Thursday. He said he was…
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Tennessee Woman Says She Was Racially Profiled, Accused of Shoplifting and Handcuffed at Victoria’s Secret Store
A Victoria’s Secret store in the Carriage Crossing mall in Collierville, Tenn., has issued an apology and offered a $100 gift card to a customer who was handcuffed and accused of shoplifting Monday after attempting to return an item to have a security tag removed. Instead of simply having the tag removed from her item,…
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From IDGAF to ‘Y’all Hiring?’ CrossFit Exec Fired for Homophobic Tweets [Updated]
Updated: Thursday, June 7, 2018, 8:30 p.m. EDT: In addition to Russell Berger’s firing, the CrossFit location that he praised for canceling an event coinciding with Indy Pride has been shut down. The Indianapolis Star reports that the downtown Indianapolis CrossFit Infiltrate, located on West Ninth Street, has a sign posted on its door that…