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Russell Westbrook Takes Them All On
Russell Westbrook is on a tear this season. The Oklahoma City Thunder guard is closing in on averaging a triple double and is in the conversation for MVP of the league. Last night the guard faced off against old teammate Kevin Durant and the Golden Skin State Warriors, and it looks as if the two…
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Australian Open Announcer Compares Venus Williams to Gorilla
I am going to need announcers to use their white-people words when talking about Venus Williams’ domination in tennis. Sure, Venus and Serena have been at the top of the tennis world for 20 years, so describing their game and the way they annihilate their opponents shouldn’t be new to announcers. Alas, an assclown still…
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Ga. Woman Says She Shot 15-Year-Old Black Boy in Self-Defense After He Threw Rocks
A white Georgia woman who once voiced concern about her neighborhood and “bad blacks” is now facing charges for shooting a black teenager in the head after he walked past her house Monday evening, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, Elisabeth Cannon was charged with two counts of aggravated assault in…
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Someone, Please Go Get Uncle Jerry; He Out There in a Chicken-Wing Helmet
First, Jerry Rice had the audacity to criticize Colin Kaepernick for protesting police brutality against unarmed black men, women and children, and now the Hall of Fame wide receiver is in a Popeyes commercial wearing a damn chicken-wing helmet. The spot is titled “Popeyes Wingovations With Jerry Rice” and began running earlier this month. Not…
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Someone Drove Around in a Truck With a Sign Honoring MLK’s Assassin
So, you can’t make this stuff up. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, while the nation was celebrating the life and legacy of the iconic civil rights leader, a truck was seen in Johnstown, Pa., with a series of problematic images and messages, one of which honored King’s assassin, James Earl Ray. According to the…
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Dad of Alfred Olango Files Lawsuit Against El Cajon, Calif., Cops in Son’s Death
The father of Alfred Olango, Richard Olango Abuka, filed a civil rights lawsuit in San Diego federal court earlier this week, accusing El Cajon, Calif., police of using excessive, deadly force against his son, who was shot and killed during an encounter last year, the San Diego Union Tribune reports. According to the report, the…
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Will We Be Getting Reparations From Sallie Mae-Navient?
Navient, the nation’s largest servicer of student loans, has misled borrowers for years with respect to its policies and practices, costing them millions of dollars, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a federal regulator. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the same agency that went after Wells Fargo and aired out all its dirty laundry,…
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Flint, Mich.’s Water Crisis Continues; Latest Events Prove It’s Far From Over
The people of Flint, Mich., still do not have clean water, and there does not appear to be a definite end in sight to the need for water filters and bottled water for everything from bathing to cooking more than a year after Mayor Karen Weaver called a state of emergency because of elevated lead…
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Widow of Gunman in Pulse Nightclub Shooting Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Charges
The widow of the Pulse nightclub shooter pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges against her in connection with the shooting. Noor Zahi Salman, 30, stood before U.S. District Judge Donna Ryu in a California courtroom as she entered her plea. According to the Orlando Sentinel, prosecutors say that Salman knew about Omar Mateen’s plan…
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Chicago Cop Charged With 1st-Degree Murder in Off-Duty Shooting of Unarmed Man
A Chicago police officer was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder in the off-duty shooting of an unarmed man earlier this month. Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, told the Chicago Tribune that Cook County prosecutors filed charges against Lowell Houser in the shooting death of 38-year-old Jose Nieves…