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Video Shooting of Terence Crutcher by Tulsa Police The Tulsa Police Department released video on Monday of a white police officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Okla. By NEETI UPADHYE on Publish Date September 20, 2016. Photo by Mike Simons/Tulsa World, via Associated Press. Watch in Times Video » The Police Department…
Updated Feb. 25, 2015 4:02 p.m. ET Google Inc. nurtured YouTube into a cultural phenomenon, attracting more than one billion users each month. Still, YouTube hasn’t become a profitable business. The online-video unit posted revenue of about $4 billion in 2014, up from $3 billion a year earlier, according to two people familiar with its financials,…
How a San Diego woman discovered details of her rape on a pickup-artist blog—and fought to bring her attackers to justice. *Warning—the following article contains a graphic depiction of a rape. Alex Smith and Jonas Dick considered themselves part of the elite. The two men were instructors in the community of pickup artists—men who obsessively…
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What started as a peaceful demonstration against a black man killed by police devolved into a black man shooting another black man for no apparent reason. It all happened right in front of me. CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — A second night of protests over the police killing of a black man ended with another black…
Kiefer Sutherland stars as a low-level White House cabinet member forced to step in to become president after a major attack. There’s something very ominous about Designated Survivor, the new ABC series that has arguably the most intriguing premise in a pilot this season — a very low-level cabinet member becomes president because, as the…
Credit Photograph by Tamas Olajos / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ “Welcome to Los Angeles”? Thanks, but no, thanks—I’m from New York. I don’t need to engage in cordial small talk with strangers. In New York, we greet newcomers by giving them incorrect directions to Times Square and criticizing the way they spread their cream cheese….
This is a speech that I wrote for a local event. I thought I’d post it on Medium because it might help explain some context to white people. Recently, I was the only person of color in a discussion group about race. Always fun for us. During the first meeting, I introduced myself by saying that…
Drew Magary wants a word with anyone who’s about to be on the wrong side of history. Earlier this week, the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold uncovered yet another Donald Trump scam job, in which he used over $250,000 in charitable donations to help pay off his legal bills. And, because this is Trump, that sordid…