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Conn. Interracial Couple Refuse to Remove Racial Slur on Door Until Cops Investigate
It’s been a month since someone spray-painted the word “nigger” on an interracial couple’s home in Stamford, Conn., over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, to be precise. However, the couple have refused to remove it, saying that authorities are not properly investigating the incident. And now the couple have received a blight citation…
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Uber Hires Ex Attorney General Holder to Probe Sex Harassment, Discrimination Claims
Uber has tapped former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help lead an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination made by a former female employee who made her claims public over the weekend in a blog post, the Washington Post reports. In a memo shared Monday, CEO Travis Kalanick told employees the review…
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Over 5.5 Million South Sudanese at Risk for Starvation: Report
More than 5 million South Sudanese men, women and children are at risk for starvation, according to reports from the country itself and the United Nations. The South Sudanese government has declared famine in two counties of the country, according to an announcement by the South Sudan government and three U.N. agencies. The catastrophe is…
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Jefferson’s Monticello Makes Room for Sally Hemings
As the country slowly, surely comes to grips with its slaveholding past, one of its most iconic buildings is set to do the same. Monticello, the estate where President Thomas Jefferson lived (immortalized on the back of our nickel), will now give the enslaved young woman and alleged “mistress” of Jefferson “a room of her…
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Trump’s Exorbitant Travel Costs Will Far Surpass Obama’s
President Donald Trump had a lot to say about President Barack Obama’s vacations and his costs to American taxpayers. Yet a new report confirms that Trump’s travel costs—made more exorbitant because of his refusal to stay in the White House on weekends—is on track to far surpass those of Obama. The Washington Post estimates that…
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This MMA Video Is the Equivalent of Black America Losing Obama and Gaining Trump
Saturday’s British Challenge Mixed Martial Arts 18 event had just started when Joe Harding got on his fancy and started dancing. His opponent, Johan Segas, took the opportunity to kick the shit out of him. The whole fight reminds me of 2008. Obama was voted into office and we were all dancing in the streets.…
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Report: Flint, Mich., Water Crisis Connected to Systemic Racism
Finally, some truth out of Flint, Mich. The Michigan Civil Rights Commission released a report Friday that said, in part, “systematic racism” going back decades is at the core of the problems that caused a lead-contaminated water crisis in the majority-black city of Flint. While the 130-page report says that the commission did not unearth…
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Trump’s Attempts to Create Common Enemy Out of American Media Very Orwellian
President Donald Trump had another one of his Twitter temper tantrums Friday, taking to the social network platform to once again attack journalists and the media, calling out specific outlets by name and declaring them to be “the enemy of the American people.” Trump made two attempts to send out the tweet. The first version,…
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Scott Pruitt, Who Opposed the EPA Every Chance He Got, Has Been Confirmed as Its New Leader
Scott Pruitt used his position as Oklahoma’s attorney general to repeatedly sue the Environmental Protection Agency for its efforts to regulate mercury, smog and other forms of pollution, and on Friday he was sworn in as the agency’s new leader, bringing into question the future of the EPA under the Trump administration. The Washington Post…
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Amtrak Officer Shoots and Kills Unarmed Man at Chicago’s Union Station
An Amtrak police officer was ordered held on $250,000 bail Friday and charged in the Feb. 8 shooting death of an unarmed Minneapolis man outside of Chicago’s Union Station. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office said that LaRoyce Tankson, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 25-year-old Chad Robertson, who died…