A police chief in Mississippi was exposed for using racist slurs in his private messages.
In one of his messages, Harold Vanderford, 60, wrote that he "almost beat a n***** and white woman's ass a few minutes ago."
He used slurs when referencing college athletes, and he boasted about screaming the slur 15 times hoping his neighbors would hear.
This is obviously troubling and unacceptable.
As of today, Harold Vanderford still has not been removed, suspended, or resigned as police chief.
The Senatobia Police department is under heavy scrutiny after their officers shot and killed a 1-year-old child, Kohen Kartier Wiley, during an alleged shoplifting at Walmart over diapers.
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
NEW: Keisha Lance Bottoms calls out Slick Rick Jackson for breaking his promise to Georgians to unwind his million-dollar taxpayer-funded contracts with the state.
Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker.
Since 1965, there have been 6 fiscal years when federal spending fell relative to the preceding year:
🔵1965 - LBJ
🔵2010 - Obama
🔵2012 - Obama
🔵2013 - Obama
🔵2022 - Biden
🔵2023 - Biden
No Republican president in the last 60 years has cut spending vs. prior year.
EXCLUSIVE: Ten years ago, David Michael Levin was convicted of hacking into government election websites.
Now, he appears to have been hired by the Trump DOJ to...wait for it...monitor elections. https://t.co/a4x0e6oM3L
🚨 After a NEW bombshell report revealed how Slick Rick Jackson just extended a multimillion-dollar contract after promising to “unwind’ them, Keisha is calling on him to disclose all of his contracts.
Georgians deserve to know how he’s been profiting off of their tax dollars.
Swipe to read her full statement.
For more than a decade, Georgia has left billions of dollars on the table that could have kept hospitals open and helped our neighbors get the care they need.
Nine rural hospitals have closed. Rick Jackson says the consequences aren’t “as bad as anybody else thinks.”
It is easy to dismiss the consequences when you will never have to bear them. Georgians deserve a governor who knows the difference.
$5.1 million in taxpayer money to restore 19-foot statues with 23.75-karat gold leaf.
Just when you think Trump cannot be more out of touch with the needs of working people, he outdoes himself.
A 10 year-old boy from Japan discovered that butterflies can remember their time as caterpillars.
Jo Nagai noticed his caterpillars still loved him after turning into butterflies, and the affection he had for them led to a genuine scientific discovery.
In 1968, CBS aired a documentary called Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed. One segment showed something uncomfortable: side-by-side comparisons of famous European artists and the African sculptures they copied. Paul Klee. Picasso. Modigliani. One after another. The African artists? Unnamed. Uncredited. Called "primitive." The European copies? Displayed in museums. Taught in schools. Called genius. Bill Cosby said it plainly: "When you look at this copying, you gotta give us a little more than rhythm. You gotta give us style."
Roland Martin says there's a coordinated effort to defund Black America by targeting the entire Black infrastructure and ecosystem.
He argues it's happening at the federal, state and local levels.
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