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Charles Barkley is a retired NBA basketball player and on-air personality with Inside The NBA, so it’s clear that he won’t be confused for a political analyst. That didn’t stop parent company Turner from having the outspoken Barkley talk politics, in which he slammed GOP hopeful Donald Trump and CNN, which is hosting the next […]

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Ben Carson hates CNN. Or at least that’s how it sounded when he called in for an interview with Alisyn Camerota this morning. Carson got into a combative exchange with Camerota because she kept bringing up stories about his past.

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Activist and New York Daily News writer, Shaun King, had his social media temporarily suspended for posting an email exchange with CNN yesterday (Nov. 4). King was asked to be on Don Lemon’s show to discuss  Quentin Tarantino’s police brutality comments, and the Illinois cop who staged his suicide to look like a homicide.

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At this point, we may as well nickname Don Lemon Troll-Tron because there’s simply no reason for some of the madness that leaves his mouth on a regular basis. The CNN journalist had the audacity to question the reasons why Richland County Deputy Officer Ben Fields tossed around a high school girl like a rag […]

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Writer, blogger and police brutality activist Shaun King has been battling allegations that he is actually a white man posing as a Black person, not unlike the recent Rachel Dozeal scandal. While King maintains, rather ambiguously, that he is actually biracial, CNN‘s Don Lemon says that a “family member” tells him that King is actually […]

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Let’s get one thing established from jump: movie theater shootings are not a common occurrence nor should they ever be anticipated. However, in wake of the heinous act that happened during the opening day of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana, Universal Pictures agreed to reimburse theaters for the extra security during Straight Outta Compton’s […]

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By now you have seen the disturbing footage of Sarah Bland’s arrest, where a police officer threatened her with a taser essentially because she didn’t want to put out a lit cigarette. On CNN, former NYPD detective Harry Houck said Bland was “arrogant from the very beginning.”

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CNN, the major news network now in its 35th year, has been in the middle of some rather questionable debates on race lately, spearheaded by the often-ridiculed Don Lemon. In CNN’s most recent head-scratcher, Lemon led a debate over whether or not President Barack Obama should apologize for slavery after a New York Times columnist […]

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Days later, CNN’s Erin Burnett issues an apology to the members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. for confusing the women for Crips gang members on-air.

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Deray Mckesson, better known as Deray, has been one of the most prominent young Black activists of the times. The Baltimore native was a host on CNN where host Wolf Blitzer attempted to get his guest to decry the actions of the city’s residents over the past two days and got a rude awakening.

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Professor and talk show host Marc Lamont Hill was a guest on CNN‘s Erin Burnett Out Front Tuesday night (April 21), this time squaring off against former NYPD detective Harry Houck. The pair got into it as they were discussing the curious death of Baltimore man Freddie Gray while he was in police custody, sparking Hill […]

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Trinidad James has seen his name surface in the headlines of late, but not because the southern rap artist is in the midst of a new campaign for an album. In the wake of the OU SAE video release, usage of the “n-word” in Hip-Hop is the topic du jour with the media of late […]