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It's National Comic Book Day! Here are the Best Comic Books by Black Creators Right Now
It’s National Comic Book Day and what better way to celebrate than to get into these groundbreaking comics by Black creators. Not sure where to start? How about a Black-owned comic book store? We decided to reach out to the owner of Third Coast Comics in Chicago, Terry “Doc Midnight” Gant. He has been described…
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Trump Shares Fake Video of Joe Biden Playing NWA’s Song About the Police. Yep, That Song
President Trump is a fake president, so it’s not shocking that the president of people who listen to white people’s acoustic versions of NWA songs shared a fake video of Democratic presidential nominee and Kamala Harris’ running mate Joe Biden playing NWA’s “Fuck tha Police.” It’s just another example in a series of attempts by…
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Donald Trump Jr. Was Put in Twitter Jail for Posting False Information About COVID-19
Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot. That’s not a diss, that’s just a fact. If Donald Trump Jr. was taking an IQ test against a tractor-trailer tire and the fate of the world lay in the results, smart money would be to bet on the tire. On Tuesday, Trump Jr., aka Not Ivanka, was put…
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Video Prompts Investigation Into New Jersey Police Officer Seen Repeatedly Punching Restrained Black Man
Another day, another investigation sparked by another viral video showing another cop beating on another Black man. This time it happened in New Jersey around 3 a.m. on Sunday when an officer was recorded repeatedly punching a Black man in the face while other officers restrained him. According to CBS Philly, the Cape May County…
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'All of These Guys Are Complicit in the Brutal Practice of Slavery': The Cast and Crew of Hamilton Have a Reckoning
The filmed version of the original Broadway hit Hamilton is coming during a timely moment—not just because we’re stuck in our homes during self-isolation amid a pandemic, but because it allows us an opportunity to revisit and reckon with the history of this nation’s founding fathers during a national uprising. So, as we watch this…
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Black Women Breaking the Silence: A Candid Conversation With the Women of HBO Max's On The Record
“It has come time that we are able to parse our fandom from our celebrity heroes apart from their very real flawed human selves if and when it calls for that. And I think that young people are closer to the idea of deconstructing celebrity culture in a way that we don’t have to have…
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6 Months After Kneeling on a Black Woman’s Neck and Tasing Her Belly, Miami-Area Officer Faces Battery Charges
A former Miami Gardens police officer has been charged with four counts of official misconduct and two counts of battery stemming from a January incident where he knelt on a Black woman’s neck and stunned her twice with a Taser during an unlawful arrest. As NBC News reports, Jordy Yanes Martel turned himself in on…
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On Juneteenth Eve Trump Took a Shot at Race-Based 'Fake News' by…Posting Race-Based Fake News. Twitter Wasn't Having it Though
Here are a couple questions: Why is y’all’s president so raggedy? Why can’t literally anybody in this ghetto ass administration keep him off social media? On Thursday, Donald “I Put Juneteenth on the Map” Trump took to Twitter and other platforms to take another shot at “fake news” by…posting fake news. Thankfully, Twitter is having…
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Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee on Black MAGA Supporters Drinking the 'Orange Kool-Aid' From 'Agent Orange'
Making a film about black soldiers in the Vietnam War is always relevant as there isn’t as much spotlight on them as it is their white counterparts, but Spike Lee’s latest joint, Da 5 Bloods is even more timely than any of us could’ve imagined. Here’s what’s going down in the film, per Netflix’s press…
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New Jersey Attorney General Releases Footage Connected to Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Man
On May 23, an unarmed black man was fatally shot in Bass River, N.J., after a brief struggle with a police officer, who pulled him over for speeding. On Monday, New Jersey’s state attorney general released about 30 hours’ worth of audio and video files connected to the traffic stop. NBC News reports that 28-year…