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Florida congressional districts that eliminated a majority-Black seat upheld by state Supreme Court

July 17, 2025
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FILE – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) Florida’s Supreme Court upholds a congressional map that dismantled a majority-Black district, ruling that restoring the district would constitute unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Florida’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state’s current congressional redistricting…

Akon says his ‘Akon City’ project in Senegal is under attack by misinformation but is still happening

July 17, 2025
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – SEPTEMBER 22: Akon performs on the Mundo Stage during the Rock in Rio festival at Cidade do Rock on September 22, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Wagner Meier/Getty Images) The “Smack That” rapper and singer also provided an update on the country album that he’s working on…

Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson hard launch their relationship

July 17, 2025
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Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson confirm relationship rumors (Photos: Getty Images) “He makes me genuinely happy,” Megan Thee Stallion said of her new boo Klay Thompson at the Pete & Thomas Foundation Gala. It looks like it’s a lover girl summer for rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Last night, the “Body” rapper and NBA star…

‘You Don’t Have to Come In for Your Next Shift’: Black Teen Fired from Florida Burger King After Exposing Coworker’s Racist Slur on Video Gets the Last Laugh

July 17, 2025
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Cellphone video posted to social media shows the moments a Burger King employee admitted to using racial slurs while on his headset with other employees, leading to a heated confrontation between him and two customers. The footage caught the moments the worker at a Burger King in Crystal River, Florida, confessed to using the N-word,…

Minneapolis Cop Who Shot And Killed Amir Locke Is Now MPD’s Police Use-Of-Force Trainer

July 17, 2025
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Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty Look, it’s bad enough when police officers are fired for egregious misconduct or police brutality, only to be hired on by another police department, where they ultimately repeat the same behavior, but the Minneapolis Police Department is really playing around in our faces by giving Amir Locke‘s killer the role…

DOJ asks for one-day sentence for officer convicted in raid that led to shooting death of Breonna Taylor

July 17, 2025
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Brett Hankison, Breonna Taylor (Collage by TheGrio) The officer was convicted on one count of abusing the civil rights of Breonna Taylor for firing shots through Taylor’s bedroom window in the 2020 raid. A former officer convicted in the raid that led to the 2020 shooting death of Breonna Taylor in her Louisville, Ky., home…

‘How Much Did He Owe?’: Bruno Mars Jokes About Casino Debt as He Returns Once Again, Here’s Why Fans Think It’s a Quiet Admission

July 17, 2025
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Bruno Mars has once again demonstrated his masterful ability to turn controversy into comedy, this time leveraging social media to address persistent rumors about his financial situation with characteristic wit and charm. The Grammy-winning superstar sent his 42 million Instagram followers into a frenzy with a playful post that referenced debunked claims about his alleged…

‘What They’re Doing Is Illegal’: White Property Workers Allegedly Called Tenants ‘Monkeys,’ Hired Black Employee As a ‘Go-Between’ So They Didn’t Have to Speak to Black Residents

July 17, 2025
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A Black woman who was fired from her job at a property management agency is suing her former employer for allegedly facilitating a racially hostile environment in which white employees casually used racial slurs and forced her to speak to minority tenants so they wouldn’t have to. Stefanie Eubanks began working against Prism Real Estate…

Senate Democrats see record number of diverse staffers, even as diversity is ‘demonized and distorted’

July 17, 2025
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(Photo: Getty Images) EXCLUSIVE: An annual diversity survey shows that 42% of Democratic Senate staffers are Black and Brown, a slight increase from 2024. Senate Democrats are touting a record number of diverse staffers working in their offices, in direct conflict with the political climate in Washington, D.C., as the Trump administration declares war on…

‘What They’re Doing Is Illegal’: White Property Workers Allegedly Called Tenants ‘Monkeys,’ Hired Black Employee As a ‘Go-Between’ So They Didn’t Have to Speak to Black Residents

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