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Friday, August 9, 2019

Leslie Jones Lands Netflix Standup Special, Slated for 2020

Les Dog is in the house! Your house, that is, if you are Netflix and chilling next year.

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Run Over to Adidas' Gear Up For School Sale For 30% Off Select Styles

30% Off Select Styles | Adidas | Promo code GEARUP

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Five Years After Mike Brown's Killing, Should Policing Be Abolished?

Since Mike Brown was killed by officer Darren Wilson five years ago, the Ferguson Police Department hired a new police chief and the Department of Justice launched an investigation into the police department. But was that enough?

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Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign Invite Us to Ride the Boat on Hot Girl Summer

After birthing the phenomenon known as “Hot Girl Summer,” its official anthem has finally arrived, courtesy of Megan Thee Stallion, with a little assistance from a pair of artists equally about that liberated life: Ty Dolla $ign and Nicki Minaj.

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Thursday, August 8, 2019

Black Man Walked With Rope by Mounted Police Has Mental Illness, According to Family: 'They Don't Care to Know the Whole Story'

Family members of Donald Neely, the 43-year-old homeless man who was handcuffed and led by a rope by two white Galveston, Texas, officers on horseback last weekend, say he has struggled with mental illness for years—and that his condition was well documented.

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