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Here’s Why White People Love A Tribe Called Quest
The legendary Hip-Hop group was recently nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Black Covid Patients Were Delayed Life-Saving Care Due To Faulty Medical Device
A new study shows that false pulse oximeter readings for Black, Latino and Asian Covid patients resulted in doctors' decision to postpone treatment.
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Black Agents Make NFL History by Representing the Majority of First Round Draft Picks
It’s wild to think that in 2020 there are still so many industry milestones that black people have yet to cross. For this reason, it’s always encouraging to see racial barriers being broken. So black sports fans should be elated to learn that for the first time in NFL history, more than half of the first-round…
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Banks May Have the Authority to Take Your Stimulus Check and Use It to Pay Off Loans and Fees: Report
It may not cover everything, but for people who have lost work or wages due to the coronavirus outbreak, the stimulus check promised to them by the federal government could mean the difference between putting food on the table and paying bills or being unable to do either. Imagine the impact on individuals and families…
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BBQ for Speeding Tickets? Police Department Gets Caught Offering Incentives for Cops to Write More Traffic Citations
Despite laws prohibiting police departments from instituting traffic ticket quotas and despite police officials denying that their departments participate in the practice, stories keep popping up involving departments violating the rules or, at the very least, finding loopholes and incentivizing officers to write more tickets. According to Fox5 Atlanta, in Douglassville, Ga., cops wrote 4,000…
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90,000 People Vying for Tickets to Kobe Bryant's Memorial Within First 24 Hours of Sale
Fans and people grieving the loss of late basketball icon Kobe Bryant are reportedly clamoring to pay their final respects to him during a memorial in the same arena he became legend. And they don’t seem to mind to pay for the tickets. Details have emerged about the Feb. 24th memorial for the retired Los…
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In City of Brotherly Love, White People Don Blackface During Parade—in 2020—Allegedly Channeling Philadelphia Flyers Mascot Gritty
2020 just kicked off and some white people are already showing their black asses. Oops, I mean wack asses. Folks still think it’s OK to wear blackface—in the City of Brotherly Love, of all places. Several marchers of Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade—an annual New Year’s Day tradition since 1901—were disqualified for wearing blackface while allegedly trying…
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Sad News: Oprah's Mother, Vernita Lee, Died on Thanksgiving Day
Sad news for Oprah Winfrey and half-sister Patricia Amanda Faye Lee, as People confirms that their mother, Vernita Lee, died at her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at age 83 on Thanksgiving Day. No details on her cause of death have been given at this time. Winfrey is the eldest child of Lee, who was also…
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Trump Sexual Assault Accuser: 'He Was Like an Octopus; His Hands Were Everywhere'
Since the Washington Post leaked 2005 footage of Donald Trump making sexually aggressive comments about women, several reports have emerged saying that Trump physically assaulted women. According to the New York Times, two women—Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks—say that Trump assaulted them. Leeds said she was traveling for business during the 1980s when a stewardess…