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Friday, June 25, 2021

Vandalism of George Floyd Statue in Brooklyn Being Investigated as Hate Crime

This country is filled with some weirdos. A statue of George Floyd was unveiled in Brooklyn this month of Juneteenth, and not even a full week went by before a group of white nationalists decided to vandalize it.

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The Talented Mr. June

I don’t know what it is about being down 0-2, but that fight-or-flight response brings out the best in the Los Angeles (formerly Temecula) Clippers. We saw it this postseason against the Dallas Mavericks; history repeated itself against the Utah Jazz, and on Thursday night, it was the Phoenix Suns’ turn to incur the…

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Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Georgia and Its Racist and Voter Suppressive Ways

The Justice Department announced Friday that it has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Georgia because the Peach State is one of several that are pushing new restrictive voting legislation that the department (and everyone with critical thinking capabilities) believes targets Black voters and is only being…

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Kanye West Is Suing Walmart for Selling Knockoff Yeezys

No one shoe should have all this power—especially not one this ugly (sorry to The Root’s resident Yeezy lover, VSB Senior Editor Panama Jackson, but I said what I said). Kanye West’s sartorial ode to the Alien franchise is yet again causing a stir, as the entertainer and fashion entrepreneur just upped the ante in an…

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'I Was Just Depressed and Didn’t Want to Live': Mary J. Blige Reflects on My Life in New Amazon Prime Documentary

Many Mary J. Blige fans (including myself) often consider Blige’s catalogue at its highest when she’s singing about pain—mostly because many of us can relate. Granted, I was a smooth ten years old when her beloved second studio album My Life was released, but I sang the heart-wrenching songs like a woman who’d lived,…

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