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Breonna Taylor’s Killer Wants to Be a Cop Again
Myles Cosgrove, the dismissed officer who fired 15 rounds including the fatal shot, has a hearing about rejoining Louisville Metro Police.
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The Hits Keep Coming for the Las Vegas Raiders
Cornerback Damon Arnette who made threats on social media is the latest to be fired by the team for bad behavior
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Aaron Rodgers Drags MLK Into His Vaccine Mess
The ranting Green Bay QB badly cribs from one of King’s most famous speeches
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Virginia Elects First Black Woman Lt. Governor
Conservatives point to Winsome Sears’ win as proof they’re not racist
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No Third Term for Former Atlanta Mayor
Kasim Reed’s supporters circulated “Trumpian” fake news before conceding
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Why Black Men Do Not Trust the Police
In a compelling piece at Ebony, Keith Reed writes about his grave distrust of law-enforcement officials. He recounts tales of flagrant police negligence during times of crisis in his youth. I’m not sure when I realized my distrust of police officers. Maybe it was at about 12 or 13, when my best friend and I had…
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We Had Our Ascots Handed to Us
I’m pissed at Roland Martin. Not because of anything the broadcast journalist has said in one of his ubiquitous, ranting TV commentaries. Yeah, the guy’s hard to avoid — his face is all over CNN and TV One and he’s loudly, loudly, opinionated — but that’s OK with me. I wish the brother nothing but…
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The R in Revelation
You can learn a lot when you spend seven years under indictment for child-molestation charges, and then get acquitted at trial. Just ask R. Kelly, who sat down with BET on Tuesday night for his first television interview since he was acquitted of all the charges against him in June. Touré, BET’s lollipop-froed correspondent, gently…
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On Thin Ice, Together
Unless you’ve been under a rock (or a hurricane) the last three days, you know about Wall Street’s meltdown. What many people don’t get is exactly what impact it might have on their personal finances. That’s understandable since it’s easier to believe that what happens to rich investment bankers is unrelated to our own efforts…
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A Stream of Change at Fountain Square
Barack Obama’s address to the NAACP convention was unspectacular, as these things go. It’s just that we’d heard all his material before, as good as it is. Repeat tomorrow.What made the NAACP speech significant wasn’t what Obama said and it didn’t happen in the convention hall. Its significance was in a crowd thousands-deep, two blocks…
