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Who Will Succeed Elijah Cummings as Head of the House Oversight Committee?
As members of Congress mourn the loss of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the question of who will take his place as the head of the House Oversight Committee quietly looms in the background. As the New York Times reports, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, who is now the most senior Democrat on the…
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Officer Who Shot and Killed #AtatianaJefferson Resigns 'Before He Could Be Fired' Police Chief Says
The Fort Worth, Texas police officer who shot and killed 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her mother’s home early Saturday morning resigned Monday. Interim Chief Ed Kraus told reporters at a press conference Monday that former officer Aaron Dean tendered his resignation before he could be fired. Kraus said Dean was served a written administrative complaint…
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#AtatianaJefferson: A List of Questions That Need Answers From Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus
The Fort Worth Police Department and its police chief, Ed Kraus, have a lot of explaining to do as it pertains to the senseless killing of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her mother’s home early Saturday morning. A neighbor, James Smith, said he called a police non-emergency number when he noticed that the front door was…
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Texas Police Officer Shoots and Kills Black Woman in Her Own Home
A white male officer with the Fort Worth Police Department in Texas is on administrative leave after shooting and killing a 28-year-old black woman in her own home early Saturday morning. NBC News reports that the shooting of Atatiana Koquice Jefferson was captured in its entirety on the unidentified officer’s body camera, and authorities have…
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Nobody Is Buying Dallas PD’s Bullshit Story About Joshua Brown’s Death
The Dallas Police Department just came up with a story so farfetched, I am going to stop roasting both Empire and Power for some of the ridiculous shit that happens on both of those soapy-ass shows that I cannot stop watching. Joshua Brown, 28, was shot and killed Friday night—a week after he served as…
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Lock Her Up! Betsy DeVos Could Face Jail for Failing to Forgive Student Loan Debt
How corrupt is the Trump administration, you ask? So corrupt that the Department of Education, under the leadership of Trump appointee Betsy DeVos, has still been hounding former students of Corinthian Colleges Inc. to pay their student loan debts. Those same students that were promised that their debts would be forgiven because they were defrauded by…
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Are Gay and Transgender Workers Protected by Federal Law? US Supreme Court Will Decide
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which among other things prohibit discrimination on the basis of “sex,” extend to gay and transgender workers. From the Washington Post: The court combined two cases to consider whether gay workers are covered. Gerald…
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Could This Be the End of the Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign?
Bernie Sanders—the 78-year-old three-term senator from Vermont who is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history (he also served in the House of Representatives for 16 years)—was hospitalized after experiencing “chest discomfort” during a campaign event Tuesday evening. According to the New York Times, Jeff Weaver, a longtime adviser to Sanders, read…
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Donald Trump Warns There Will Be a Civil War If He Is Impeached
Donald Trump is shook. You can tell the “president” is shook because every time he is, he starts flailing on Twitter, tweeting out whatever nonsense he can think of to put up a brave front—but his words usually belie that enormous front and reveal that deep down inside, he is afraid of whatever may be…
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Friend, Foe or Fraud? Shaun King on the Accusations Against Him, Rihanna's Diamond Ball, DeRay and More
By now, Shaun King should be used to the drama. After all, the accusations King has faced are legion. People have accused him of not being black, of being a government operative inserted to dismantle the movement, of being an egomaniac who centers himself in the movement, a plagiarist who co-opts the work of black…
