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I first encountered Erik Seidel the way many poker newbies do. I was watching Rounders, the 1998 Matt Damon movie about a brilliant law student who pays his way through school with his poker prowess, and in the end quits law altogether to play full-time. In several scenes, a real-life …

Breonna Taylor might be alive today if a judge had done her job with more scrutiny, a Louisville councilwoman argues. According to reports, Judge Mary Shaw gave approval for five deadly no-knock warrants in 12 minutes in relation to the drug bust that Taylor had no involvement with, but which …

Larry BrownScreenshot: Fox 55 (YouTube) Larry Brown (the Indiana council member not the former NBA coach) is a goddamn idiot. He knows it, the people of Indiana know it and now “you ain’t even got no job, cause you triflin’.” During a county council meeting on June 18, District Four …

Ja Rule’s history of using his likeness for advertisements isn’t great (see: Fyre Festival). That said, he’s taking a step in the right direction with his newest ad. The New York native’s commercial for Papa Cristo’s Greek Deli, a Los Angeles-based greek restaurant, went viral over the weekend for its …

Two black banks—Industrial Bank and Citizens Trust Bank—have each received $5 million in grants from financial services giant Morgan Stanley. Cynthia N. Day, President & CEO of Citizens Trust Bank and Citizens Bancshares Corp. The $10 million in grants to the minority depository institutions (MDIs) will allow them to build …

Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS (AFP via Getty Images) In 2017, the NAACP issued a travel advisory against American Airlines for just being flat out racist. Three years later, the airline is now facing a lawsuit because a flight attendant just couldn’t stop her inner Karen from hopping out. NBC News reports …

“Trump keeps losing not because of something obscure, but because of something fundamental: his abuse of the executive branch,” two legal experts argue. Team Trump failed to block John Bolton’s book. The former national security adviser’s memoir comes out tomorrow, despite allegations from Trump’s camp that it spills classified information. …

Some cops seem unable or unwilling to stop using brutal tactics. Even after New York prohibited chokeholds, a New York City police officer was caught on video using the deadly maneuver on Sunday (June 21) in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. Police officials released a statement …

Share0 Image via @nycparks/Instagram Juneteenth celebrates the day where Union troops liberated enslaved Black people in Texas two and half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. In honor of the country’s oldest holiday, New York City Recreation Parks announced that numerous parks across the five boroughs will be renamed in honor …

The “black sidekick” character trope certainly isn’t new, but it’s still relevant—so relevant that there are still references to it in TikTok videos. Since Daria was a television show dripping with sardonic humor, one of its supporting characters Jodie Landon called it out directly. Tired of the obvious tokenism behind …