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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Won $100,000 Video-Poker Jackpot, Proving That Life Is Unfair
Floyd Mayweather Jr. isn’t just rich; he’s excessively rich. He’s so rich that his career is now contemplating how to take on more girlfriends while thinking of more ridiculous ways to increase his wealth. Mayweather is reportedly considering a career in the MMA, which he will leave with a billion-dollar payday. And now Mayweather, who…
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White Woman Calls Cops on Black Real Estate Investor Inspecting House Next Door
It’s news to no one that the Rebeccas and Karens of the world will not cease until they call cops on every single black person in this country for the most minuscule of perceived infractions. In the past month alone we’ve had incidents of police being called on black people for napping while black, cooking…
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#CommunityServiceWhileBlack: Cop Questions Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Members During Highway Cleaning, Says He Thought They Were Fighting
Several members of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority were doing their due diligence and cleaning up trash on Interstate Highway 83 in Harrisburg, Pa., when a state trooper pulled over and started questioning them. According to a now deleted Facebook post by Shawna Naomi but captured by writer Britni Danielle, the trooper said he was questioning…
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A Black Student Says He Was Sexually Harassed and Assaulted by a White Classmate, but Only He Was Punished
The family of a black middle school student has filed a lawsuit against the Lansing, Kan., school district for racial discrimination in failing to protect him from physical and sexual harassment at the hands of another middle schooler. This is the second such lawsuit filed against the Lansing School District in a week, the Kansas…
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#StayWoke: The Real Reason Trump’s Trying to Make China Great Again
On Sunday, seemingly out of nowhere, President Donald Trump tweeted that he was going to ease crushing sanctions on Chinese phone company ZTE, which, under President Barack Obama’s administration, pissed off the United States by selling Iran’s largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of spying on its citizens. After an investigation in 2012,…
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113-Year-Old Ohio Woman Is the Oldest Living Person in US
A huge part of the Gerontology Research Group’s focus is to keep track of people who live past 110 years. And after the death of a 114-year-old woman in Pennsylvania, it has now bestowed its “oldest living person in America” honor upon 113-year-old Lessie Brown of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. According to Fox 8, Brown’s 88-year-old…
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A Black Man Died During an Arrest in Louisiana; A Local Coroner Has Ruled the Death a Homicide by ‘Asphyxia’
On Thursday, 22-year-old Keeven Robinson died shortly after a chase and “brief struggle” with narcotics detectives from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana. At first, authorities hinted that his death may have been related to his medical history of asthma, the Washington Post reports, noting that an air-quality alert had warned residents of unhealthy…
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Black Yale Student Wants White Classmate Who Called Police on Her Held Accountable
Lolade Siyonbola, the black Yale student who had the police called on her by a white classmate for napping in a common room, said she wants the university to hold that classmate and others like her accountable. In an interview with Good Morning America (h/t Time magazine), Siyonbola spoke out about her run-in with Sarah…
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Trump Finally Reaches Out to Waffle House Hero James Shaw Jr. Almost a Month After Deadly Shooting
It’s been almost a month since James Shaw Jr., 29, snatched an assault rifle away from a gunman who opened fire at a Tennessee Waffle House, killing four people and injuring several others. Despite Shaw’s brave actions and the fact that he was nationally hailed as a hero, it was only on Monday that y’all’s…
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Tomi Lahren Is a Descendant of Non-English-Speaking Immigrants. She Should Shut Up About Immigration
Dear Racist White People: When are you going to stop putting your chalky-ass feet in your mouth? When are you going to stop looking like fools in the name of upholding some type of white nationalism that you yourself may not even qualify for based on the required purity tests? And when, oh when, are…