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2018 mid-term elections are weeks away. Are you registered to vote? Do you know where your polling place is? Why don't you take a moment to check. Ten years ago the Republican party was licking its wounds after the...
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Mark Twain supposedly said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Those of us old enough and paying enough attention to appreciate the interesting times in which we live have been hearing a lot of...
Did Dallas, Texas police officer Amber Guyger accidentally park on the wrong floor of her South Side Flats apartment complex and enter Botham Jean's unlocked apartment assuming it was hers? Did Guyger struggle with the lock before...
As primaries for November's mid-term elections happen all over the country, our attentions are again on election integrity. We are all aware by now Russia had an enormous hand in influencing the outcome of 2016. And although...
A 52-year-old woman, Karen Lee Batts, was evicted from a senior assisted living facility for non-payment of $338.00. Batts' family says she suffers from schizophrenia. The facility that evicted Batts was under the management of  Cascade Management, Inc....
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It's no secret that Donald Trump is having a hard time attracting A-list performers for his inauguration. Well, it turns out he may be about to get one--provided that he agrees to her terms. If...
  Everyone knows that textbooks are supposed to be bland and boring; something that all school-aged children are forced to lug around in backpacks and wearily heft onto desktops as the students slump into their seats. Most...
Many people have gained popularity on social media for their courageous and enlightening commentary on the tragic killing of Michael Brown and subsequent chaos in Ferguson, but no one has captured my attention the way...
Controversial GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting Colorado congresswoman who ran on a law and order platform that has been arrested quite a few times, and received her GED diploma a few months before winning...
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Normally, the act of jailing someone for being unable to pay fines would be classified under "things that are not okay," and "things long abandoned in the US," but for some towns in America, the...
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In a bizarre twist, a woman serving as president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington has been exposed as a white woman masquerading as a black woman. According to Rachel Dolezal's parents, Dolezal -- who...
Russia is holding an American citizen as a political prisoner. Yes, you read that right. Russia is holding an American citizen as a political prisoner. Why you haven't heard about it is a very good question. WMBA basketball player...
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In 1995, a movie called "White Man's Burden" hit the theaters. It was a story about an alternate reality where the middle and upper class was comprised mainly of blacks, while whites were the poor...
For all out there feeling a little demoralized about the class warfare congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump's administration are waging against us, results from Tuesday's elections should lift your spirits. Let's start in Virginia where...
Last night, one woman made a difference. The twitter user @SecretGamerGrrl wrote a powerful Twitter essay about why the recent Planned Parenthood and Black Lives Matter attacks are domestic terrorism, and why the attackers should...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." One of the promises President Donald Trump made on the campaign trail was to deny millions of refugees admission to...
Let's get real. It's getting ugly out there. White cops killing unarmed Black men, the necessary removal of our Confederate monuments, the "free speech" event at Berkeley turning violent, and the terrorist attack by a white...
On Thursday, lawmakers brought President Trump a bipartisan immigration deal proposal. Trump countered it with racism. According to the Washington Post, a source familiar with the meeting reported Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) presented Trump a...
Speaking to comedian Marc Maron on Maron's "WTF" podcast, President Obama got about as real as you can possibly get when it comes to addressing the topic of racism, even saying that eliminating racism is...
Looks like the pro-Trump faction in this country is getting desperate. That's not surprising when you consider they support a man who has historically low poll ratings, is widely hated across the world, and is...