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Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Jayden Williams, the 23-year-old who was Georgia’s youngest Black mayor, was removed as mayor of Stockbridge, Ga., for misusing city funds and engaging in inappropriate, sexually explicit communications with a teenager, reports NBC News.  On Sunday, the Stockbridge City Council voted 3-0 to remove Williams

Source: Joe Raedle / Getty The open-air prison camp for immigrant detention in Florida—officially named the Florida Soft-Sided Facility, but known colloquially as “Alligator Alcatraz”—was not fit for human habitation, even by the standards of ICE, the Department of Homeland Security said in a report released on Monday. The DHS

Source: Win McNamee / Getty So… I try my best to stay out of white people’s business, but the Trump administration is a 24/7 MAGA marathon of white people’s business, and since that administration is running the nation, I, as a journalist — a bringer of the news — must

Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty My mama always repeated the refrain, “What doesn’t come out in the wash will come out in the rinse,” meaning … give it enough time, and all will be revealed. And speaking of WASHED, the Trump regime has found yet another way to enact its

Source: Tom Williams / Getty In today’s news that’s surprising to no one who’s been paying attention, a whistleblower alleges that Department of Homeland Security investigators may have broken state laws in their attempts to investigate voter rolls.  According to the New York Times, the whistleblower’s report details what the

Source: KENA BETANCUR / Getty Bill Cosby was once one of the wealthiest entertainers on the planet, landing on the Forbes 400 after his net worth swelled to an estimated $300 million by the early 1990s. Much of that wealth traced back to his signature role as Cliff Huxtable on

Source: Kristian Buus / Getty In today’s episode of The Only Good Idiocracy Is A Dead Idiocracy, President Donald Trump and his administration of professional know-nothings are determined to push artificial intelligence as the future of U.S. industries, even as AI experts warn it could be destroying the world. They

Source: Liubomyr Vorona / Getty September marks National Suicide Awareness Month, giving an opportunity to have public conversations about mental health crises and suicide intervention. The most dangerous form of despair in the Black community is often the most invisible and defined by a slow, passive surrender where we simply

Source: Jacob Wackerhausen / Getty The Trump administration recently proposed allowing married, single-income households to draw from the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), but the proposal ignores the reality of many Black women and women of color. The premise underlying the “parent-based care” option is that staying home is

Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty We can all breathe a sigh of relief as the Supreme Court has upheld a block against President Donald Trump’s executive order that would’ve significantly restricted mail-in voting. AP reports that the Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling on Monday night. In a 7-2 decision,