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Tiffany Haddish recently canceled a forthcoming appearance in Atlanta for a noble and upstanding reason. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Haddish released a statement on Saturday announcing that she will no longer be performing at the Fox Theatre on June 22 in protest of the state’s recently adopted and highly …

Justice Clarence Thomas has long approached the law the same way that Heath Ledger’s Joker approaches urban peace. He’s suggested that federal child labor laws and the ban on whites-only lunch counters are unconstitutional, written opinions that would blow up multiple federal agencies, and argued that high school students lack …

Kanye West is now a father of four, and his wife, Kim Kardashian-West, is showering him with praise for always coming through for their kids. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star took to Instagram on Father’s Day to tribute her rapper husband with a slide show of photos from …

Source: Boston Globe / Getty Parkland Shooting Survivor’s Harvard Acceptance Rescinded Over Racism Consequences and repercussions, ladies and gentlemen. THAT is the name of the game. The internet is literally flooded with white kids saying “ni**er” and many of them probably won’t suffer any of the aforementioned results for their …

  Monday June 17, 2019 · 1:20 PM PDT 2019/06/17 · 13:20 The Supreme Court reaffirmed a longstanding double jeopardy rule Monday that allows people to be tried by both state and federal prosecutors for the same crime. The case had been closely watched as an indicator of whether former …

Factory towns face problems when the factories shut down. Everyone has heard versions of that story—involving steel and auto plants in the Midwest, sawmills in the Northwest, coal mines in Appalachia or copper mines in the Southwest, other facilities in other towns. On a recent visit to Southside Virginia—the part …

A picture obtained from the Iranian news agency Tasnim on June 13, 2019, shows what is said to be an Iranian navy boat trying to control the fire that broke out on the Norwegian-owned Front Altair tanker when it was attacked in the Gulf of Oman. From Peace Action—High Tensions in …

While it’s way too early to determine what Blue Ivy Carter will eventually do for a living, she certainly has the talent to follow in her famous parents’ footsteps. The seven-year-old daughter of Jay-Z and Beyoncé recently took center stage for her dance recital at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, …

Andrew Anglin U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Sargus Jr. found that nothing in Anglin’s posts constituted protected speech, and issued an injunction ordering the posts removed from the website. “As a Muslim being attacked with the worst anti-Muslim trope you can say, is that I’m a Muslim I’m a terrorist,” …

Shaquille O’Neal invested in nine Papa John’s locations in the Atlanta, Georgia, region. The locations are: 990 State St. NW, Atlanta;  561 Forest Pkwy., Forest Park ; 5658 -A Riverdale Rd., College Park; 745 HWY 138 Riverdale; 2075 Mt Zion Rd., Morrow; 5582 N. Henry Blvd., Stockbridge; and 205 Racetrack …