Trump Blasts “Racist” Spike Lee After Oscars Acceptance Speech
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump kicked off Monday morning by lashing out at Spike Lee after the “BlacKkKlansman” director used his Oscars acceptance speech to call on voters to reject the politics of hate, reminding the audience that the “2020 election was around the corner.”…
Gospel Music: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Gospel music isn’t just for believers. The fervor of African-American devotional songs played a key role in shaping the sound of secular pop from the ‘50s on, and continues to bestow its blessing of uplift on listeners of all persuasions today. Mavis StaplesLive in LondonANTI-…
Holy, Toledo! This Ohio City Is Voting to Give Legal Rights to a Lake
Lake Erie nayuco/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Toledo, Ohio, a city of nearly 300,000 situated on the western edge of Lake Erie, may not seem like a mecca of progressive environmental policy. But on Tuesday, the city’s denizens will vote on a radical ballot measure to recognize that a…
30 Years Ago, a Racist Juror Sentenced This Black Man to Death
ftwitty/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On September 25, 1990, Keith Tharpe disobeyed a judge’s orders requiring him to stay away from his estranged wife and her family after he had threatened them with violence. While his wife and her sister-in-law Jaqueline Freeman were on their way to work, Tharpe blocked their…
Marco Rubio Is So Pumped Up About Venezuela He Just Tweeted a Snuff Film
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press. And also, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio tweeting out a still from a snuff film: pic.twitter.com/ZwxbWyV1HF — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 24, 2019 On the left, that’s former Libyan dictator Moammar Qadaffi, and on the right…that’s a captured…
Donald Trump Said North Korea Wasn’t a Nuclear Threat. Mike Pompeo Just Contradicted Him on CNN.
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo aren’t on the same page on North Korea’s nuclear weapons, just days away from a major summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam. In a Sunday morning interview on CNN, Pompeo was…