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Robert Mueller and His Wack Report Went Out Like a Bad Knee, and This Isn't the First Time
Special Counsel Robert Mueller was supposed to find the pee-pee tapes. Instead he went out like Geraldo opening Al Capone’s vault. In fact, there was more in Capone’s vault than has been released from Mueller’s findings. The big takeaway from Mueller’s report, according to a four-page summary released by Attorney General William Barr, is that…
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Millions of Black Voters Are Being Purged From Voter Rolls, Often Illegally: Report
As the end of Barack Obama’s presidency grew closer, election officials began preparing for the next election. Instead of strengthening the security of voting machines and making voting more accessible to citizens, states did the exact opposite. But they didn’t just make it harder to vote. For hundreds of thousands of registered, eligible voters across…
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The White House Is Really Trying to Drive Home This ‘Immigrants Are Animals’ Agenda With New Report
The White House wants desperately to craft this ideology that violent brown criminals are “animals.” Administration officials are pushing this so much, they recently released a blog on the official WhiteHouse.gov website titled, “What You Need to Know About the Violent Animals of MS-13.” There will be people who will point out that Donald Trump’s…
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Fabolous Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges: Report
On Wednesday, Brooklyn, N.Y.-born rapper Fabolous was arrested on charges of domestic violence. Fabolous (real name John David Jackson) allegedly assaulted his girlfriend of over a decade, and former star of VH1’s reality-television show Love & Hip-Hop, Emily B (real name Emily Bustamante) in their Englewood, N.J., home. According to TMZ, Emily B contacted the…
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Report Finds Some HBCUs Graduating Less Than 1 Out of 5 Freshmen Within 6 Years
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, after analyzing federal data tracking graduation and retention rates for HBCUs, came across an alarming finding. At 20 HBCUs, six-year graduation rates were at 20 percent or lower in 2015. To frame it another way, only 1 in 5 enrolled freshmen ended up graduating within six years. For perspective, the 2015 national…
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Report Calls Out Weak Police Response to Charlottesville, Va., Protests, Alleges Obstruction
An independent investigation into the white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Va., has confirmed what was immediately obvious to many: that the Charlottesville Police Department and Virginia State Police royally fucked up in their response to the deadly protests. The report was conducted by a former federal prosecutor, Timothy J. Heaphy, and, at 200 pages (pdf),…
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Too Good to Be True? New Report Raises Concerns About DC High School Where Every Graduating Student Was Accepted to College
Last June was a triumphant moment for Frank W. Ballou Senior High School, a predominantly black school located in Southeast Washington, D.C. After years of dismal student test scores and graduation rates, Ballou made headlines that could make the school and its students proud: Their entire senior class had been accepted to college. It was…