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#FitTheDescription: The Dehumanizing Brutality of Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration is a crisis. It is a capitalist and racist endeavor that has purposely targeted black and Latinx communities through discriminatory policing, bigotry framed as legislation, and a deep-seated fear of blackness and “otherness.” This system is, in large part, fueled by mainstream media for the sole purpose of pathologizing black and Latinx people until trapping them…
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The Son Rae Carruth Tried to Have Killed Will Be There to Greet Him When He Walks Out of Prison
Rae Carruth is still in denial. The onetime promising Carolina Panthers wide receiver was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the 1999 shooting death of Cherica Adams, who was pregnant with Carruth’s son at the time. Carruth hired a gunman in order to end the pregnancy because Adams refused to have an abortion.…
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5 Mysteries Surrounding the Life and Death of Dr. Sebi
What if I told you I had a cure for AIDS? Would you believe me? What about cancer? Or diabetes? There are those who believe that Dr. Sebi, born Alfredo Bowman—a world-renowned vegetarian herbalist, healer, pathologist and biochemist—had the cure for all of them, all the diseases that bring devastation and an altered existence before…
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Fla. Man Sentenced to 25 Years After Raping Woman in Order to Get Prison Time
A Florida man has been been sentenced to 25 years in prison after raping a woman so that he could get into prison to get even with the person who killed his 14-year-old son, the Palm Beach Post reports. Joel Jones raped the unidentified victim in August 2014 after she responded to a Craigslist ad…
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Rapper Drops Mixtape. Just May Pay For It With His Life
What will follow is the most ridiculous thing I think I may have read in life. I don’t even mean that in a cavalier fashion. I mean that in the most sincere way possible. Like, when I say that I don’t like J. Cole, like, at all, I say with the utmost sincerity. That’s how…
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Seriously, If Shaneen Allen Goes To Prison, F*ck Everybody
I first read about Shaneen Allen, the Philadelphia mother who was arrested for driving through New Jersey with a handgun, a month or so ago. It was a ridiculous story then, but I assumed common sense would prevail and Allen — who had a permit to carry and didn’t realize it didn’t apply to New Jersey…
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Ray Nagin Gets 10 Years, The Legacy Of Clay Davis Continues
From Panama Jackson: “How the might have fallen. From Katrina to being called Katrina by a nigga named D’quan.” Indeed. Seriously though, is this the time and the place to have the “What the fuck is up with all these corrupt Black politicians in big cities? Does every single one have to be Clay Davis?”…