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It’s official: The “Rooney Rule” is a joke. This is not exactly news; it’s been years since the Rooney Rule was taken seriously, if it ever was. However, the NFL’s track record over the past two seasons has been particularly appalling, even as the league claims an ongoing commitment to …

Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) The Republican party is continuing its assault on anyone who’s not a straight, cisgender, white man. Their current target? Kids. NBC News reports that Republican lawmakers across a dozen states are introducing bills that would essentially criminalize being a transgender youth. Some of the proposed …

Though he had never met him in person, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote that he remained “grateful for having studied at Hitchens’s virtual foot.” James Fallows’s remembrance was more complicated because, as he confessed, “I admired him but we were not friends, mainly because of disagreements arising from the 2000 election … …

Four homeless mothers who took over a vacant Oakland, California house and occupied it for almost two months will reportedly be allowed to purchase it. According to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Moms 4 Housing has reached an agreement with the city and Wedgewood Properties, who says they will negotiate in …

Mohammad Shahab Dehghani HosseinPhoto: CNN It feels like just Monday night I was talking about how U.S immigration policy is being drafted and enforced by white nationalists. Wait, it was just Monday? Aw shit, here we go again. CNN reports that Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein, a 24-year-old student admitted to …

Just by chance, the new revelation came at the beginning of Davos, the shorthand for the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in Switzerland. Davos is famous for how it concentrates the globe’s private jets, which disgorge elites to listen to panels and hobnob. Davos is one of a bunch of …

Brooklyn Nets’ forward Garrett Temple was just six years old when Walter “Johnny D.” McMillan was exonerated in the death of Ronda Morrison in 1993.  McMillan, a Black business owner, was arrested in June of 1987 for the murder of Ronda Morrison, a white dry cleaning clerk. Immediately upon his …

Tyler Gordon, a 13-year-old self-taught artist, focuses his paintings on black history and culture. According to an article done by Because of Them We Can, the young artist has paid incredible tributes to Janet Jackson, Kevin Durant, Steve Harvey, Kevin Hart, and even the late Toni Morrison. His art has …

Photo: MOLLY RILEY (Getty Images) Hillary Clinton tried to tell America that they “COULD’VE HAD A BAD BITCH, NON-COMMITTAL,” but America didn’t want to listen. Now, Clinton is continuing her “I’mma hit you back in a minute” tour and dragging Bernie Sanders’ ass under the Clinton campaign bus. For reference, …

But all that money and time just for one night when CNN turned him into a foil for Sanders and Warren? Is that enough to justify his long campaign? Is that why he ran? “No, it’s not why I ran. But I’m happy that at least we’re not talking about …