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Basketball

After a 20-year career, Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bean Bryant played his final NBA game against the Utah Jazz on April 13, 2016.

Music

Labor Day might not bring out the grills this year, but the drinks and more importantly the jams can still be flowing freely.

The New York real estate mogul has not minced words on his thoughts about Mexicans, Blacks, and Muslims, leaving doubts about his campaign slogan to make "America Great Again." Does he mean returning the nation to plantation owners and slaves? Does he mean getting the, uh, African-American family out of the White House?

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday closed a probe prompted by the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray. It concluded Baltimore police officers regularly violate the constitutional rights of Black residents through the use of excessive force, unlawful searches and arrests, and racial discrimination.

Nation

In what many are calling a shocker, Venus and Serena Williams – already three-time Olympic doubles gold medalists – experienced their first Olympic loss together on Sunday to Czech Republic pair Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova, NBC Olympics reports. But the 6-3 6-4 loss – following the sisters’ gold wins as a pair in the 2000 […]

Justice has been served in the William Chapman II police shooting case. Chapman, who was suspected of shoplifting, was shot and killed by former police officer Stephen Rankin outside of a Walmart after a security guard called cops to go after the 18-year-old African-American teen. On Thursday, a jury convicted Rankin of voluntary manslaughter, a lesser […]

Crime

Aaron Wright, 47, has been charged in the violent, gruesome death of his girlfriend, 24-year-old Joyce Quaweay.

Thing is, George W. Bush was president when the young man died. President Obama was an Illinois state senator at the time.

The Miss Teen USA organization, not at all concerned that their newest role model used the N-word, defended the Texas teenager.

Nation

A community is reeling after a 23-year-old woman and a 5-year-old were shot by police.

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The singer and drummer extraordinaire stands by Hillary Clinton and believes that Donald Trump's antics have made the political process look like a reality TV show.

From King to O'Reilly, the irresponsible dissemination of a whitewashed history, which many believed to be powered by Donald Trump's xenophobia, seems to dominate the internet. But is this type of rhetoric, while not new, fueled by the upcoming election?