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Photo: Vice News Tonight (AP) The “Unite the Right” rally was one of the darkest moments in our countries recent history. The white nationalist rally took the life of 32-year-old Heather Heyer and left countless others injured and scarred. In some good news, one of the key figures behind that …
Read More »A Historic Quarantine
The basic argument for quarantining is that in emergency scenarios, individual rights must be sacrificed for the collective interest. In the U.S., the constitutional basis for quarantining is somewhere between tenuous and nonexistent, depending on which legal expert you ask. A massive imposition like China’s would be unconstitutional, according to …
Read More »Kanye Reportedly Asked White Actor To Portray Him In Biopic
Between his support of Donald Trump and taking a religious approach to his music, just about any headline involving Kanye West is becoming less shocking. Most recently though, ‘Ye seems to be thinking about a biopic surrounding his life and reportedly wants a white actor to portray him. According to …
Read More »It Took Them 130 Years, but Pasadena Police Have Appointed Their First Female Deputy Chief. And She Black!
Photo: Pasadena Police Department California is thought by many to be the be all end all of progressive states. Apparently, though, there are even pockets of the Golden State that come tardy to the party of breaking down gender and racial barriers. But hey, better late than never, as they …
Read More »Matthew McConaughey Can Do Better Than This
The Gentlemen thus completes the second boom-and-bust cycle of McConaughey’s career. As an exciting young actor in the ’90s, he gave his all in films such as Dazed and Confused and Lone Star, but eventually settled into a rut of middling rom-coms and dramas. When he reemerged with Magic Mike, …
Read More »Oakland Moms Allowed To Return To Home After Being Evicted
Four mothers who were evicted last week from a previously vacant Oakland, California house where they were living have been given the go-ahead to return to the home after speculators agreed to sell the property to a nonprofit organization. On Monday (January 20), it was announced that Wedgewood Inc. will …
Read More »Black Athlete at West Virginia High School Finds Picture of Himself in a Noose Before Game
Jace ColucciScreenshot: WWVA-TV I’m often skeptical when I hear people say shit like “We just need to let the old people die out, then racism will be a thing of the past.” Mainly because those racists have kids. Kids who often turn around and do things like this. NBC News …
Read More »Donald Trump Has One Problem
In private, Trump can accept when he’s wrong. Told by aides that he’s made a mistake, he’ll reply with a simple Crap, the second former White House aide told me. What he won’t do is openly admit error. (This is too bad. Think of how disarming it might be if …
Read More »NeNe Reacts To Wendy Williams Claiming She’s Leaving 'RHOA'
Rumors began swirling over the past week that NeNe Leakes would be departing from Real Housewives of Atlanta after this season. On Tuesday (January 21), things seemed even more concrete when Wendy Williams revealed on her show a text she received from NeNe, which contained the words, “I’m quitting.” A …
Read More »Meet the 15-Year-Old Who Went From an Ice Cream Cart to an Ice Cream Parlor
Lil’ Ice Cream Dude “Beau” Shell (Image: Facebook) At only 8 years old, Victor “Beau” Tracy Shell surprised his parents by asking for an ice cream cart for his birthday in order to sell ice cream not only to buy his own toys but to help his family as well. …
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