Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Democrats are calling out the head of the U.S. Postal Service, who is a donor to the Trump Campaign and chair of the finance committee for the GOP convention, even as he continues to barrel forward with a series of changes that have been majorly …
Read More »Petition To Remove Kylie Jenner From 'WAP' Video Goes Viral
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s hit collab and fire music video for “WAP” has been the talk of the internet since it was released on Friday. While most people have been focused on the message of empowerment and the temperature-raising visuals, there’s one aspect of the clip that many …
Read More »Black Employees Say Veterans Affairs Has a Serious Racism Problem, and the Stories Are Pretty Damning
Photo: Jennifer Vinciguerra (Shutterstock) A survey of employees at Veterans Affairs has revealed that nearly 80 percent of them believe that racism is a serious and widespread problem within the government agency. The nationwide survey of 1,500 workers at the VA was conducted by the American Federation of Government Employees …
Read More »The Facts Just Aren’t Getting Through
A few weeks ago, I went to a political rally in a farmyard. The Polish presidential candidate Rafał Trzaskowski was speaking; in the background, a golden wheat field shimmered in the late-afternoon sun. The audience was enthusiastic—the host, a local farmer, had spread news of the candidate’s visit only the …
Read More »Facebook Removes Fake Black Trump Supporter Accounts
Facebook has reportedly removed dozens of accounts of “Black Trump supporters” discovered to be generated by a troll farm in Romania. The social media company says the farm of accounts violated its policies against coordinated inauthentic behavior. A July enforcement activity report states that Facebook removed 35 personal accounts, three …
Read More »Saturday's Best Deals: National CBD Day, Snowy Kirby Figurines, Klipsch Speakers, PowerA Controllers, and More
Graphic: Elizabeth Henges Best Deals of the DayBest Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily. A set of Kirby figurines for pre-order, deals at Sunday Scaries and Fomo Bones for National CBD Day, fancy Klipsch speakers for $549, and more top Saturday’s best deals. Bookmark …
Read More »The Whole Concept of ‘Unlawful Assembly’ Is a Mess
That March day, on the other side of the bridge stood hundreds of Alabama state troopers, sheriff’s deputies, and mounted “possemen” (white locals “deputized” by Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark). They were armed with rifles, tear gas, batons, and cattle prods. “It would be detrimental to your safety to continue …
Read More »Cardi B Posts Cute Video Of Normani On 'WAP' Set
Cardi B means what she says about supporting women in the music industry. The femcee, whose video for “WAP” — a collab with Megan Thee Stallion — is setting the internet ablaze, proved as much when she shared a behind-the-scenes video of one of the famous ladies to make a …
Read More »Deion Sanders Blasts Athletes Who Are Opting-Out of Playing This Year Because of COVID-19: 'The Game Will Go On Without You'
Photo: Maddie Meyer (Getty Images) There’s something especially disgusting about a Black person who eagerly jumps at any opportunity to publicly tell Black people they are expendable and that their value is determined by how much they can provide and perform for white people. As The Root reported, 66 NFL …
Read More »A Tale of Two Seth Rogens
The script, written by the humorist and Saturday Night Live alumnus Simon Rich, does its best to deepen its high-concept premise, which originated as a piece in The New Yorker. But for me the hook was enough. I, like the fictional Ben Greenbaum, am descended from Jews who fled Eastern …
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