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Aubrey Drake Graham is the man who sends you a drink from across the bar and walks over right as you take the first sip, sidling up next to you to ask for the name of your lipstick shade. He can’t help it, really. The man is a simp of calculated, caricatural proportions. He’ll tell…
T. Greg Doucette is a criminal defense lawyer in North Carolina who also writes a legal blog. And he’s got some things to say: In a 43-part tweetstorm on Tuesday, Doucette recounted a recent experience defending a 17-year-old black teen from claims by a police officer that the teen was doing 360s in the middle of the street….
In the 90s, before Hillary Clinton was taking private meetings with Deray McKesson and campaigning on promises to end mass incarceration and reform mandatory minimums, she was a little less enlightened, shall we say, on issues around race and criminal justice. At a speech last night, two Black Lives Matter activists took her to task…
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When I was a kid, I always seemed to get in trouble for talking in class. I didn’t talk more than the average kid; I was just trying to stay engaged in the conversation. Other kids would talk, I would talk back. Crack a few jokes. Seemed the polite thing to do. But no matter…
Across the country, conservative politicians and police unions are voicing their outrage at Beyoncé, Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter movement. We hear rumblings that some police departments are going to refuse to provide security for her concerts. Other police chiefs are actually blaming her Super Bowl performance for police shootings. KING: CINCY COPS…
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School integration at the Barnard School in Washington, D.C. in 1955. O’Halloran, Thomas J., photographer, the Library of Congress The schools around Charlotte were once admired nationwide. They offered a model for successful racial integration — proof that a diverse community could raise its children with shared values and shared opportunity. That dream crumbled in the early 2000s,…
The primary driver of racism in America? Black people like Beyonce, who celebrate thugs who want to divide us. White America does not have a racism problem—just ask these incensed internet commenters. As you all know, mentally disturbed typical hollywood hoe* Beyonce gave a despicable and racist performance at the Super Bowl halftime show in…
When Beyoncé released her latest single, “Formation,” ahead of her Super Bowl performance this weekend, her fans overwhelmingly rejoiced, praising the song as “unapologetically black” and an activist triumph. But, perhaps predictably, the artist soon faced backlash for those very reasons. Many have come to the superstar’s defense, but few have been as on point as…