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Turns out Black History took more than a month? Ashley Nicole Black investigates. Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/ 9:30c on TBS! Show more Show less Source: We’re Still Not There: A Practical Guide to Resistance | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube
END CLASS=”STORY-META__ONE” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” The Jewish Community Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., was declared safe after police investigated a bomb threat Monday. The Jewish Community Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., was declared safe after police investigated a bomb threat Monday. Bomb threats forced evacuations at Jewish schools and community centers…
White men in entertainment can get away with anything. That one, soul-deadening lesson has been drilled into women’s heads recently. We saw reality TV star Donald Trump caught, on tape, sexually harassing a female colleague and giggling about “grabbing [women] by the pussy”—and we saw America elect him president a few weeks later. We found…
Still: MSNBC It is absurd that there should be any public discourse examining where people void their bladders and bowels in 2017, and yet that backward and childish discussion illustrates exactly where we are as a country. Thanks in no small part to the White House’s reversal of Obama’s 2016 directive ordering schools to grant…
article/types/premium_story_header.tpl A block of San Francisco’s busy Market Street was shut down in both directions for more than two hours at rush hour Monday evening because of a bomb threat at the offices of the Anti-Defamation League, authorities said. The 700 block was closed in both directions between O’Farrell and Kearny streets. Just before 7…
Voices I’m an Arab actor who’s been asked to audition for the role of terrorist more than 30 times. If La La Land cleans up at the Oscars, I’m done My first film job at the age of 14 – Steven Spielberg’s Munich – featured me as an Islamic terrorist’s son. When I complained about…
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick joined a group of more than 100 female engineers on Thursday to discuss the explosive allegations of sexual harassment and sexism recently leveled against the ride-hailing company. During an hourlong meeting, the engineers grilled Kalanick on what they say is a systemic problem at the company and urged him to…
Getty Images Muslim activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi have launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the repair of a St. Louis Jewish cemetery that was vandalized over the weekend — and the response has been overwhelming. The campaign, which aimed to raise $20,000, exceeded its target in three hours — and had drawn more…
Richard Saker/REX/Shutterstock Start Article Post Content UPDATED: Controversial far-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos has been disinvited from speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, it was announced on Monday. The decision comes amid a controversy involving a video from January 2016, in which Yiannopoulos appears to defend pedophilia. It resurfaced after it was recently shared on a conservative blog,…
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said Sunday that the ride-sharing company will investigate new allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination in its workplace. After former Uber engineer Susan Fowler published a nearly 3,000-word blog post Sunday describing a nightmarish workplace culture in which male superiors solicited her for sex and human resources officers shrugged off her…