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Failed Children: The Harts
The Hart family murders were a murder–suicide which took place on March 26, 2018, when Jennifer and Sarah Hart murdered their six adopted children – Ciera (aged 12), Abigail (14), Jeremiah (14), Devonte (15), Hannah (16), and Markis (19) – by driving the family’s sport utility vehicle off a cliff in Mendocino County, California, United States. Jennifer Jean and Sarah Margaret Hart were…
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Failed Children: The Turpins
In 2018, a severe case of child abuse was thrust into the public eye when one of the children finally got up the courage to call 911 on her parents, David and Louise Turpin. This couple were parents only in the sense that they procreated and gave birth to their thirteen children – in most…
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They Fell From The Sky
Death is a part of life. There’s just no escaping that fact. We are all going to die – plants, insects, four-legged critters, and the bipedal devils known as homo-sapiens. Nothing anyone can do will stop that from occurring. Not ever. However, some of us die in horrific ways. Some people are murdered, some perish…
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Women Are Repped Poorly in Media
The world of journalism, film, and television has an enormous influence on our lives – when we watch the news, TV shows, movies, or read articles, gendered stereotypes that we find in all forms of media are processed by our brains and stored away for the future. This is why it is very important to…
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Anti-Black Racism = Human Rights Issue
In an opinion piece by David A. Love for The Grio titled UN visit to America reminds us that anti-Black racism is a human rights issue*, I learned that the Biden Administration has invited the United Nations’ race relations & humanitarian experts to investigate American racism against its Black citizens. This is important because it…
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The Adoration of Mediocre White Men
Who rules the world? White men, for the most part. Mediocre White men at that. There is nothing special about White men, hell White people period, yet they are in power just the same. How on earth did this happen? We know that genocide, mass murder, and other violence are half the reason. The other…
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American Apartheid is Returning
Jim Crow Republicans are on the warpath. They are hell-bent on bringing back laws that will turn Black and Brown people into second-class citizens, keep us from voting, and take away our civil rights. Black Republicans are in league with the White Devil on this, not caring that these laws will hurt people who are…
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Republicans Don’t Care About Important Issues
A recent poll by George Washington University’s School of Media & Public Affairs reveals vast differences between what Democrats find important versus what Republicans do. Last year, 1,753 registered voters in the US were asked to take part in a 4-panel study that began in October 2020 and was conducted by YouGov for GWU as…
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Proud Rednecks
I remember when Honey Boo Boo first hit the mainstream consciousness – unfortunately – a Black woman who maintained a Facebook page about political issues affecting the BIPOC community wrote that it was a reality show about a ‘proud family of rednecks’ and while I never watched an episode of that particular crapfest, I know…
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Is Eastern State Haunted?
One of the first episodes I ever watched of Ghost Hunters showed the team investigating the former penitentiary of Eastern State. It was funny to me because one of the camera guys actually left the equipment in some dark-as-the-woods-at-night area of the old prison because he and his partner had either heard a strange noise…