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Police Open Fire on Sleeping Black Man in Locked Car
Relatives of 20-year-old Willie McCoy, also known as rapper Willie Bo, are demanding answers after six Vallejo police officers shot and killed McCoy while he slept in his car in a Taco Bell parking lot. McCoy, who had been recording recently, was on tour with his group, FBG. The second youngest of five children, McCoy…
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Dealmaker-in-Chief Trump Intends to Sign Border Deal for Pennies on the Dollar
Though Trump may look for a loophole, it seems there will be no wall after all. Despite his unhappiness with the tentative deal reached by Congress earlier this week, CNN reports that Trump will sign a border security deal to avoid another government shutdown, weeks after the longest on record. Congress has until Friday to…
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Court Upholds Ruling to Unseal Grand Jury Testimony in 1946 Moore's Ford Lynching
More than 50 years after the death of two black couples who were mobbed, dragged, tied and shot 60 times by a group of white men nearly 60 miles from Atlanta, answers may finally be available. Monday, the 11th circuit of the United States Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that ordered the…
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Overcompensator-in-Chief Takes Mulligan on Military Parade
Remember 2017? Remember when we were all wondering what the fuck covfefe meant while wondering what our white coworkers were going to do with all those vagina hats? Well, Donald Trump remembers the good old bad old days. So fondly, in fact, he’s resurrected an old hit. After losing his first bid for an Independence…
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Second Justin Fairfax Accuser Alleges Assault by Corey Maggette During Sophomore Year at Duke University
A woman who has alleged a sexual assault at the hands of Justin Fairfax, lieutenant governor of Virginia, has said former Duke University and Los Angeles Clippers basketball player Corey Maggette raped her during her time at the university. Meredith Watson, who alleges Fairfax raped her in 2000 while they attended Duke, calling his actions…
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Deal Reached in Principle to Avoid Second Government Shutdown
House and Senate negotiators have reached an “agreement in principle” to avoid a second government shutdown. Though the four leading bipartisan negotiators declined to provide specifics on the nature of the agreement, Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby told reporters that both sides “got an agreement on all of it” when asked if the deal included…
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The Trump Administration Might Actually Help Curb HIV Transmission (Or Not)
If you were planning to play the lottery or bet on the Knicks, you might want to get to it. There’s a decent chance the Trump administration may on the verge of doing something entirely right. Days after Trump’s proclamation of a new initiative that would “eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within…
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Kurtis Blow Responds to Va. Attorney General's Apology for 80's Blackface Photo
While the Commonwealth of Virginia awaits the resolution of a series of scandals involving its Governor and Lieutenant Governor, there remains the matter of Attorney General Mark R. Herring, who apologized for wearing blackface styled after rap legend Kurtis Blow at a costume party in 1980, while he was 19. While national Democrats push for…
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American Citizen Shot in the Head While Attempting to Escape into Mexico
As Republicans decry violence at the United States’ shared border with Mexico, they may want to look a little closer. An American citizen in Nogales, Ariz. was shot in the back of the head while trying to flee into Mexico Thursday night. It remains unclear why the officer involved elected to use lethal force, and…
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Trump Worries As House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff Hires Former White House Employees
If Trump starts keeping his potential enemies any closer, we may learn of a California King bed in the West Wing. After House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff hired Abigail Grace, a former career official at the National Security Council, Trump is worried Schiff is assembling a team of White House employees to gain an edge…
