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Watch Live: Van Jones’ We Rise Against Hate Tour in Nashville, Tenn.
Van Jones is currently traveling across the country on his We Rise Tour, and he wants people to rise up against hate. In partnership with Tidal, Jones is making stops across America, and Tuesday night, he’s heading to Nashville, Tenn., for which he’s renamed the tour, “We Rise Against Hate.” On the heels of the…
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Stupid or Liars? James O’Keefe’s Van Jones Hoax Raises an Important Question
Have you ever played the game “stupid or liar”? It was created by podcaster Adam Corolla. The premise is that whenever someone says something that is blatantly false, you must figure out if he or she is either incredibly stupid or a bald-faced liar. Like when your boyfriend tells you he has no idea who…
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Bethune-Cookman University Officials Ought To Be Ashamed Of Themselves
Bethune-Cookman University, a historically Black university in Daytona Beach, Florida, has invited – and she has accepted – ironically titled Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to be the commencement speaker next week. I’ve read several articles about this because I’ve honestly been trying to understand and what I’ve come up with is that there is…
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Reporting by Women Declining at Networks
“A Women’s Media Center report examining who provides coverage for 20 top news outlets shows that female journalists continue to report less of the news than do male journalists — with the disparity especially glaring in television,” the center reported Wednesday. “The WMC’s ‘Divided 2017′ study finds that at ABC, CBS, and NBC combined, men…
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Van Jones Is Way Too Kind to That Demagogue and Those Deplorables
For some time now, Van Jones has offered a bevy of political musings that might prompt more sensible, less forgiving souls to barf in a bag or bang their head against a wall, but it seems only now that are some catching on. Recently, the CNN political commentator managed to piss off quite a few…
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Reality-TV Actress Ariane Bellamar Calls Van Jones a ‘House N–ger’
On a Tuesday-night CNN appearance, Van Jones made comments about Donald Trump’s “leaked” tax returns. And once again, he seemed to praise the president. “If all we get tonight is that Donald Trump paid $38 million to America’s government, that’s a good night for Donald Trump,” Jones said. “I’m sorry, but there’s just really no…
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Van Jones’ Invite to the Cookout Is Looking Suspect After Recent Trump Comments
Van Jones will always be welcome at the cookout, but he might not always be entitled to a big red Solo cup of adult beverages if he keeps talking like this. On Tuesday the CNN pundit spouted some very anti-Van Jones commentary after Donald Trump’s faux State of the Union address. To be fair, Jones…
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Busboys and Poets’ Peace Ball DC Was Silver Lining to Crazies in Town for Pissauguration
Thursday night in Washington, D.C., was a clusterfuck for anyone traveling into or out of the city. As swarms of red-hat-wearing idiots embarked onto the city’s landscape to attend Friday’s Pissauguration, there was one silver lining to the dismal reality that Donald Trump is really becoming president. D.C.’s popular Busboys and Poets bookstore and restaurant…
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Unique Views Podcast, Episode 18: Not My President
On Tuesday the world as we knew it changed. The orange-tanned man, with the viciously thin comb-over, became the president-elect. On Wednesday it rained, proving that even God wasn’t cool with this. Are we in for it? Of course we are. During his candidacy, Donald Trump offended everyone who wasn’t a white male, and somehow…