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What the Hell’s Going On at Morehouse?
Updated Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 1 p.m.: Earlier today, citing a story from HBCU Digest, we reported that Morehouse had fired President John Silvanus Wilson Jr. Apparently we were wrong. Or maybe we weren’t. This morning, Wilson sent a letter to students explaining that reports of his ouster were “not accurate.” But yesterday’s letter from…
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GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz to the Poor: Health Care or an iPhone; Can’t Have Both!
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is a horrible person. During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, the horrible Chaffetz was being challenged on House Republicans’ newly released proposed health care bill, the American Health Care Act. Host Alisyn Camerota argued that accessibility to health care doesn’t make it affordable, to which the horrible Chaffetz replied: “So…
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Police Investigating After Indian Man Fatally Shot in SC
The Lancaster County, S.C., Sheriff’s Office is investigating the killing of 43-year-old Harnish Patel, who was fatally shot in front of his yard Thursday. The motive behind Patel’s killing is unclear, although tensions are high given the current political climate and other recent high-profile cases involving people of Indian descent. “We don’t have any facts…
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New Photos Prove That Trump Stay Lying: No One Showed Up at His Inauguration
Remember that narcissistic, rambling speech that President Asshat gave to the CIA shortly after white women elected him president? The one where he claimed that it was raining and that God made it shine just for him to give his speech, and then it started raining again after he stopped talking? Well, in that speech,…
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Innocent Blacks 7 Times More Likely to Be Convicted of Murder: Study
A new report from the National Registry of Exonerations has confirmed what we already knew (I know most of y’all ain’t surprised): Black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted than their white counterparts, and they are also more likely to spend a longer time behind bars before they are exonerated. As the report,…
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Mass. Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Black Man, Saying ‘Black Lives Don’t Matter’
A Northampton, Mass., man was sentenced to six months in jail Friday in Northampton District Court after pleading guilty to charges of a civil rights violation, assault and battery to intimidate. According to Mass Live, James L. McIntyre admitted to elbowing a black man in downtown Northampton, using a racial slur and saying, “Black lives…
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House Republicans Release Long-Awaited Obamacare Replacement Plan
The wait is finally over. House Republicans have finally released their master plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known (to the shock of millions) as Obamacare, in the form of two bills that would replace federal insurance subsidies with individual tax credits and grants to help states create their own policies.…
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TSA Agents May Be Getting a Little Closer to Airline Passengers During Security Pat-Downs
The next time you go through airport security, you may be getting felt up in an entirely different way by Transportation Security Administration agents if you decide to opt out of electronic screening and have to undergo the new full pat-down. The Washington Post reports that the new pat-downs are apparently so intrusive, the TSA…
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Supreme Court Decides Not to Hear Gavin Grimm’s Transgender Bathroom Case After All
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court said it would not hear the case of a transgender Virginia teen fighting to use the bathroom of his choice in school, reversing an earlier decision to hear the case on March 28. NBC News reports that in addition to deciding not to hear the case of Gavin Grimm,…