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Trump Nominates Ben Carson for HUD Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Dr. Ben Carson, the former Republican presidential candidate, to be the next secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Trump’s transition team announced Monday. “I am thrilled to nominate Dr. Ben Carson as our next secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,” Trump said in…
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The Love Affair Between Fidel Castro and You Is a Lie
Don’t romanticize the death of Fidel Castro, or the tales of his revolution, or the political asylum granted to Assata Shakur. Castro was a tyrannical dictator who kept the people of Cuba under his heel or at the end of his gun. From the time he took office in 1959 until his death Nov. 25,…
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Federal Government Bans Smoking in Public Housing Nationwide
A new federal rule announced Wednesday will ban smoking in all public housing residences nationwide. The new rule will take effect early next year, but public housing agencies could take up to a year and a half to fully implement the smoke-free policies. The rule would ban “cigarettes, cigars, pipes and hookahs (or water pipes)—but…
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Woman Who Had Racist Meltdown in Michaels Also Had Epic Meltdown in Coffee Shop
The woman who caused a commotion in a Chicago–area arts and crafts store apparently has a history of causing disturbances inside stores when she doesn’t get her way. According to the Daily Mail, a new video has been released that shows Jennifer Boyle gyrating and directing a tirade at two employees at a Chicago-area Peet’s…
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Colo. Doctor Calls Michelle Obama ‘Monkey Face’ With ‘Ebonic English’
Updated Thursday, Dec. 1, 8:30 p.m. EST: The University of Colorado’s School of Medicine is cutting ties with Dr. Michelle Herren, the faculty member who made a racist remark about first lady Michelle Obama on Facebook. Read the latest here. Earlier: Dr. Michelle Herren, a pediatric anesthesiologist who works at Denver Health Medical Center, Children’s Hospital Colorado, took to Facebook…
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Man Accidentally Locked in Chicago Jail for 31 Hours Receives $600,000 Settlement
In July 2014, Farad Polk went to Chicago’s Cook County Jail to visit his son who’d been locked up on a drug charge. After being told by correctional officers at the jail to go down a hallway, Polk found himself locked inside a empty maximum security visiting area for over 30 hours. On Monday, Polk…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown, Bill Russell to Receive Legacy Award
It feels fitting that in a time of the Movement for Black Lives and the last months of the first black president, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown and Bill Russell, champions of social justice, will receive the Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, not only for their achievement in sports but also for their activism, Sports…
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Trump on OSU Attacker: He ‘Should Not Have Been in Our Country’
President-elect Donald Trump is at it again. Shortly after the news that Abdul Razak Ali Artan—who stabbed students on the Ohio State University campus Monday—was a refugee from Somali, Trump took to Twitter to claim he “should not have been in our country.” The attack left 11 people injured and Artan dead, CBS News reports.…
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Racist Vandal Scrawls 'Kill All Koons' on Ind. Church Door
Evansville, Ind., police are looking for the person who vandalized a predominantly black church on Thanksgiving. The suspect scrawled, “Kill All Koons” on the church’s back door and “Koons Inside” on the church’s van. “I’ve been the pastor here for 17 years, and we’ve never had anything like this,” the Rev. Todd Robertson, pastor of…
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Fla. Man Charged After Shouting Racial Slurs, Threatening Motorists With Wrench
An 18-year-old Florida man has been arrested and charged with a felony after video showed him threatening a motorist and shouting racial slurs, officials say. Travis Thompson was arrested Monday and charged with improper exhibition of a firearm or dangerous weapon, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Police began investigating the incident, which was recorded and posted…
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