Sometimes, all it takes is a poorly named weed strain to illuminate a real problem. Just this week, Shanita Penny, the president of the board of directors for the Minority Cannabis Business Association, was contacted by a black woman who was shocked that a marijuana dispensary in Maryland is selling …
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In a contentiousNPRinterview that aired Friday morning, President Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, saidthat the “vast majority” of illegal immigrants “don’t integrate well” and “don’t have skills.” Kelly was defending a “zero tolerance policy” for illegal border crossings that was announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April. Sessions …
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Cambridge Analytica and its parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) announced they are shutting down operations and filing bankruptcy, as Gizmodo reports. The company, which is at the center of the Facebook data scandaland connected to mining social-media profiles that may have been used to deliver targeted ads to likely …
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What to make of the sanctions announced yesterday by the U.S. Treasury Department against a passel of Russians, the St. Petersburg “troll farm” and several Russian intelligence officials? At first glance, the sanctions – the first real-world action against Russia taken by Donald Trump‘s administration since it took office 14 …
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On March 2nd, CNN’s Jake Tapper began to incredulously tweet that Tamika Mallory, co-founder of the Women’s March and self-described “freedom fighter,” was defending her choice to attend a speech by Louis Farrakhan. As is typical for the controversial Nation of Islam leader, the speech was laced with bigoted invectives, …
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Denouncing Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shitholes” – while pleading for more immigrants from Scandinavia – Donald Trump did more than reveal personal racism. He made plain that U.S. immigration policy is now being driven by animus toward black and brown people. Trump’s comments were made Thursday in …
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