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‘I Would Have Fought You’: LeVar Burton Claps Back at Troll After Learning His Great-Great-Grandfather Was a White Confederate Soldier

January 17, 2024
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“Reading Rainbow” star LeVar Burton got the unexpected when he discovered some hard truths about his family’s ancestry on a new episode of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots.” “Roots” star LeVar Burton responds to troll after discovering his great-great-grandfather was white. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) The show was created with inspiration from Alex Haley’s television…

Op-Ed: Nikki Haley Has Reached A New Level Of Delusion By Claiming America Was ‘Never’ A Racist Country

January 17, 2024
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Source: Win McNamee / Getty It’s clear that presidential hopeful Nikki Haley didn’t learn much from her viral inability to say flat-out that slavery was the cause of the Civil War. Perhaps it’s because she knows her audience only pretends to care about accurate American history when all they really want is the “shining city…

Nikki Haley Faces Backlash for Saying America Has ‘Never Been a Racist Country’ Weeks After Civil War Question Debacle

January 17, 2024
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GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley has been receiving criticism after telling a Fox News panel this week that the United States has never been “a racist country.” Haley made the comments during an interview on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday. It comes after the former South Carolina governor came out in third place in the Iowa Republican caucuses,…

Sekou Odinga, Movement Elder And Former Political Prisoner Who Freed Assata Shakur, Dies At 79

January 17, 2024
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Source: YouTube screenshot Sekou Odinga, a leading member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA) who managed to free political prisoner Assata Shakur before becoming one himself and spending decades behind bars, died Friday. He was 79. The cause of Odinga’s death was not immediately reported. We send revolutionary salutations to…

Usain Bolt, Who Lost Millions to Jamaican Investment Firm, Seemingly Addresses Fraud Scandal a Year Later: ‘Still A Fight’

January 17, 2024
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World-renowned sprinter Usain Bolt reflected on losing millions in a fraud scandal in a newly released video. In early 2023, Bolt discovered that nearly $13 million was wiped from his account at investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), the Jamaica-Gleaner reported. After being notified by a former employee with ties to the scheme, the eight-time Olympic…

TikToker Claps Back at Critics Calling Her ‘Gold Digger’ After Sharing That Her Boyfriend Financially Supports Her as She Pursues Career Dreams

January 17, 2024
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A woman who went viral for explaining how her boyfriend financially supported her while she worked to jumpstart her career as a content creator is generating a lot of hope online for singles, but some people commented that they weren’t on board with her lifestyle. Erica M. (@officialericaam) stitched a video on TikTok from another…

Cops Who Killed Manny Ellis ‘Rewarded’ With Big Payouts, Lawyer Says

January 17, 2024
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Source: David Ryder / Getty The three former Washington state police officers who were cleared in the 2020 death of Manny Ellis will receive payments to leave the Tacoma Police Department, according to AP. On Tuesday, the city released copies of the “voluntary separation” which revealed ex-Tacoma Officers Matthew Collins, Christopher Burbank and Timothy Rankine…

Viewers Are Shocked to Learn ‘The Game,’ ‘Girlfriends,’ ‘Moesha’ and ‘The Parkers’ All Exist In the Same TV Universe and Melanie and Joan Were Cousins

January 17, 2024
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Renewed interest in ’90s and early 2000s Black sitcoms has led some fans to realize that “Moesha,” “The Parkers,” “Girlfriends,” and “The Game” have more in common than Mara Brock Akil and Ralph Farquhar being behind their storylines. In fact, fans of each of the series have concluded that easily overlooked crossover episodes prove that…

‘He Was a Very Good President’: Ben Carson Compares Donald Trump to Bible’s King David While Admitting He Can ‘Irritate People’

January 17, 2024
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Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson compared Donald Trump to King David of Israel during a Jan. 15 interview with Fox News. Dr. Carson also called the twice-impeached, four-time indicted ex-POTUS “a very good president.” Trump won the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 15 and is the current leader of the Republican 2024 presidential…

Baltimore Police Has Been Fulfilling Federal Consent Decree Following Freddie Gray’s Death, DOJ Says

January 17, 2024
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Source: Brandon Sloter / Getty The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has been fulfilling the terms of its federal consent decree stemming from the in-custody death of Freddie Gray that sparked riots and Black Lives Matter protests in the Maryland city nearly a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday. The DOJ’s…