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Google Celebrates Late, Great Blues Legend B.B. King on 94th Birthday
Never ever forget the great ones who came before you. We give props to the folks at Google for keeping some of our historical events and figures at the forefront through its remarkable Google Doodle initiative, which dates back to 1998 and aims to “enliven the Google homepage and bring smiles to the faces of…
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Black Girl Tragic? Joy Reid Is the Latest Black Woman Trump Goes After on Twitter
Poor POTUS! Old dude still hasn’t recovered from the full-scaled bludgeoning “John Legend’s filthy mouthed wife” gave him earlier this week—referring to him as a “vagina anus female dog.” (That’s the radio edit.) Now he has set his scathing sights on MSNBC host Joy Reid, calling her a “no talent” of all things. On Saturday,…
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Black College Student Pummeled in Alleged Racist Attack, Called the N-Word, Hundreds Protest in His Honor…and He Doesn’t Want to Press Charges
Full disclaimer: I’ve heard of some n-word nonsense in my time but this has me scratching my head. On Friday, two white students—identified as Matthew Frazier and Matthew Rawlings—at the University of Arizona were arrested for assaulting a black student on Tuesday. The racially charged incident led to hundreds to protest in Tucson. The attack…
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To Hell With Y’all: Charlottesville Judge Rules Confederate Statues Will Stay
Well, it was a good idea while it lasted. I’m referring to the removal of public monuments of known racists. But the law—in that comfortable cradle of great virtue the world knows as Charlottesville, Va.,—has prevailed. And it’s the celebration of racist business as usual. On Wednesday, a judge in the fair, ahem, city ruled…
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Colorado Cop Who Killed Unarmed De’Von Bailey Has Past of Brutality, Still Honored
The Colorado Springs police sergeant involved in the August killing of 19-year-old unarmed De’Von Bailey has once before gunned down a fleeing suspect and roughed up another person while enforcing a protection order, of all things. Alan Van’t Land is the latest personification of police persecution. And his dubious past is coming to light after…
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Kamala Harris Apologizes for Laughing at ‘Mentally Retarded’ Remark About Trump
The political campaign trail is no laughing matter. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris learned that the hard way after being called out for her reaction to a rallygoer who called Donald Trump’s actions “mentally retarded” at a campaign event on Friday. Disability rights activists criticized the California senator after she appeared to laugh at…
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Serena Williams Denied Record-Tying Grand Slam Title by 19-Year-Old Canadian
It was a fight to the finish in Flushing during the women’s final of the 2019 US Open on Saturday. And tennis icon Serena Williams gave it her all but missed her latest chance to win a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title. Bianca Andreescu, who was named 2019 US Open Series Breakout Performer in…
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Jay-Z x NFL in Another Clusterf#ck After One of Its Charities Forced to Apologize Over Dreadlock Drama
Ain’t no n-word, indeed. (For your edification, that’s taken from the title of a classic 1996 track by Jay-Z and Foxy Brown from The Nutty Professor soundtrack.) For all the good Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter is hoping that will come out of his problematic partnership with the problematic NFL (yes, I said it), yet another controversy…
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Giving Back: HBCU Hampton University Offers Free Tuition to Students Impacted by Hurricane Dorian
Thankfully, there has been a global outpouring of support for the islands of the Bahamas, which were severely impacted by Hurricane Dorian earlier this week. One historically black college—Hampton University—stepped up to the plate to help survivors of the storm, offering students the opportunity to continue their higher education on its campus this fall—free of…
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PayPal Suspends KKK Account Amid Criticism for Not Doing It Sooner
Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records once had a female rapper who released an album titled A.M.I.L. — an acronym for All Money Is Legal. That’s the code of the streets. And apparently the code of the sheets—and perhaps PayPal. If it wasn’t for pesky protestors, it would’ve been business as usual for the cash app giant. The…
