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Trump gestures during a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center on August 22, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo: Ralph Freso (Getty Images) Donald Trump is racist. Donald Trump thinks he is clever. Donald Trump probably thought scheduling a rally on Juneteenth—in Tulsa, where white rioters once massacred 300 black people …
Read More »‘Defund the Police’ Does Not Mean Defund the Police. Unless It Does.
Read: America Is Already Different Than It Was Two Weeks Ago Lopez’s premise is one with which I’m sure lots of police officers agree: We ask cops to do too much. They’re expected, Lopez writes, to resolve “verbal squabbles between family members” (in another rhetorical mode a law professor might …
Read More »Derek Chauvin Could Receive $1 Million In Pension
Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd by holding a knee to his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, may have been fired from the police department and facing second degree murder charges, but he’s repotedly still on track to receive up to $1 million in …
Read More »An Ode to Insomnia
Daniel Savage You have to get up. That’s the first thing. Don’t just lie there and let it have its way with you. The sea of anxiety loves a horizontal human; it pours over your toes and surges up you like a tide. Is your partner lying next to you, …
Read More »Vanessa Bryant's Toddler Crashes Her Big Sister's Tik Tok
Vanessa Bryant’s 17-year-old daughter got an adorable surprise while recording a Tik Tok video with family friend and WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu. The young ladies were dancing to StayStolidRocky’s “Party Girl” when an unexpected visitor dropped in: Natalia’s little sis Bianka Bryant. This isn’t the first time Bianka has crashed …
Read More »The American Black Film Festival Is Going Virtual For Its 2020 Participants
Share0 (Image: iStock.com/ Wavebreakmedia) Due the closures brought on by COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, pandemic, many major events have been forced to cancel or postpone until next year. Others have decided to experiment with a different route and develop virtual events as a way to still interact with their …
Read More »Protestors in Atlanta Set Fire to Wendy's Where Rayshard Brooks Was Killed by Police
“RIP Rayshard” is spray painted on a sign as as flames engulf a Wendy’s restaurant during protests Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Atlanta. Photo: Brynn Anderson (AP Images) Fire and frustration erupted in Atlanta last night in response to the shooting death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks at a Wendy’s restaurant …
Read More »Why Summer Camp Matters
Read: In praise of summer camp For Steve the aha! coronavirus moment came this spring, when he heard through the grapevine that if the state health department allowed overnight camps to open at all in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, there could be no … singing. “It wouldn’t be camp …
Read More »Floyd Family To File Lawsuit Against Four Officers
George Floyd’s family attorney Benjamin Crump is confirming that his family intends on filing a civil lawsuit against “everybody” involved in the 46-year-old’s death. During an interview with CNN, Crump said former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and the three other officers surrounding him on May 25 when Floyd died …
Read More »30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 13: Michael Jackson, 'Thriller'
Screenshot: Michael Jackson “Thriller” I mean, I couldn’t “well duh” think of a video any harder than this one. “Thriller” is probably the most iconic music video of all time. Of ever. And will probably be forever. And forever is a mighty long time. It’s so iconic it’s that I …
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