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Some people want to be oppressed so badly that they’ll leapfrog real inequalities. This line of thinking was on full display after a white woman claimed “racism” was the reason she and her daughter being removed from a plane. Per TMZ, a woman and her daughter were removed from a commercial airline. The motive behind […]
The global coronavirus death toll topped 800,000 on Saturday, as countries around the world urge citizens to follow precautionary measures. According data compiled by John Hopkins University, the United States is still the country with the most virus-related deaths, having tallied more than 176,000 fatalities as of this weekend. Brazil and Mexico trail the U.S. in recorded deaths with 114,250 and 59,610, respectively. Reuters calculates, […]
Police shot a Louisiana man at a gas station on Friday after he was tasered, the Lafayette Daily Advertiser reports. Lafayette police responded to a disturbance call at a Circle K gas station at around 8 p.m. on Friday. Police then followed the alleged suspect as he walked about half a mile from the Circle K to a nearby Shell gas station. […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized almost $2 million worth of narcotics from two 18-year-old Arizona residents near the Mexico border, NBC News reports. Border Patrol agents arrested the teens on Saturday after people were spotted appearing from some brush to leave packages in a parked truck. It was later discovered that the packages contained methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin […]
While most of the world is focusing on the coronavirus pandemic, residents across Northern California have another big issue to worry about. The Lake County Record-Bee reports that the wildfires in the state have particuarly impacted Northern California, spreading through every county in the Bay Area except for San Francisco. As recently as Wednesday there was 250,000 […]
Team ROC, the social justice-focused division of Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation company, is calling out an ad company for repeatedly declining “on entirely spurious grounds” to accept a billboard campaign about Wisconsin police officer Joseph Mensah. In a letter released on Thursday, the law firm representing Roc Nation said that Lamar Advertising Company’s actions “smack of improper censorship” and […]
Steve Bannon, who previously served as White House Chief Strategist for Trump and executive chair for Breitbart, has been taken into custody and charged with defrauding those who donated to an online fundraiser dubbed “We Build the Wall.” The campaign ultimately raised more than $25 million, despite “repeatedly and falsely” claiming to the public that Brian Kolfage—alongside whom […]
A new Pharrell and Jay-Z collab, titled “Entrepreneur,” will be released this Friday. The song is being released as part of Pharrell’s new Time magazine cover package ‘”The New American Revolution.” The special also boasts interviews with Tyler, the Creator, Angela Davis, Geoffrey Canada, Naomi Osaka, and more. “The intention for a song was all about how […]
It’s been 50 years since scientists have seen a tiny, mouse-sized elephant shrew recently rediscovered in the Horn of Africa. The species is known as the Somali sengi and looks like a very small ant-eater with its trunk-like nose. It’s a talented little fella, who can race around at 20 mph despite its teeny size. […]
After his family filed a lawsuit back in May, a Texas federal judge has ruled in favor of a Black teenager who had been told to cut his locs or he wouldn’t be able to attend school. According to a report from NBC News, U.S. District Court Judge George C. Hanks Jr. issued an injunction on Monday […]
