Ola Olugbemi
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ola olugbemi | December 8, 2017
People are hailing one Texas father as a hero after he shot an armed robber in a Popeye’s Chicken. Investigators reported that Andres Herrera, 19, initially approached Carlos Molina, 32, and demanded at gunpoint that his family hand over their possessions, according to Fox San Antonio. Molina told the robber that he had spent all of his money buying the meal for his family and asked if he and…
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ola olugbemi | December 7, 2017
CNN recently wrote a very unbalanced piece titled, “These Are Your White Allies,” in which the media organization touts a social media watchdog group created to “to relieve people of color from the emotional labor of engaging with a person's racist or racially insensitive thoughts.” The name of this so-called social media watchdog group is “White Nonsense Roundup,” which sounds pretty racist if…
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ola olugbemi | December 7, 2017
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews thinks “deaths are coming” after President Trump officially declared that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and that Evangelical Christians may have something to do with it. Before predicting the oncoming wave of death on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Matthews said, “If you don’t give the Palestinians hope that they can have…
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ola olugbemi | December 7, 2017
2017 just wasn’t a good year for former Rep. John Conyers. His legacy as a Civil Rights pioneer was tainted after multiple women accused him of sexual assault, he retired without finishing his term, and now his son, whom he endorsed to fill his seat in Congress, has to deal with the public mulling over the thought of him in a domestic violence dispute. The New York Times reported that the…
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ola olugbemi | December 6, 2017
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk known most notably for being jailed after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay man, will now have to defend her county clerk position against him in a 2018 election. The Lexington Herald Leader reported that her opponent, David Ermold, is running “ to restore professional leadership, fairness, and responsibility to the clerk’s office.” Ermold …
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ola olugbemi | December 6, 2017
British Prime Minister Theresa May might want to think twice about her recent condemnation of President Trump after British intelligence reportedly stopped an Islamic suicide plot to kill her. Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt confirmed the news on Wednesday and stated that British cabinet ministers were briefed about the seriousness of the issue on Thursday: It is in essence an…
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ola olugbemi | December 6, 2017
President Donald Trump plans to visit a new civil rights museum in Jackson, Mississippi this Saturday -- and judging by these tweets, people are pretty mad about it: The organizers should not allow him there. His mere presence there is a grave insult to the history of the civil rights movement. — BendingtowardJustice (@JustineAndronic) December 4, 2017 I agree. He should not be there. They…
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ola olugbemi | December 5, 2017
USA Today reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued over 4,000 orders to retrieve guns from purchasers who failed background checks last year. Although the FBI issued such requests, they have yet to retrieve the guns, meaning there are at least 4,000 people that currently have weapons that legally should not be allowed to have them. David Chipman, former official for the Bureau…
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ola olugbemi | December 5, 2017
This just in, Republicans: millennials now make up the largest generation of voters and they vote Democrat by a margin of 2-to-1, according to the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. The results, based on a fall 2017 major public opinion poll, found that fear of the future mainly drives these young whippersnappers. In fact, fear outpaced hope among millennials at a rate of 67 percent to…
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ola olugbemi | December 5, 2017
After 52 years in the U.S. Congress, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) announced his retirement on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. In an attempt to keep the ol’ Conyers Family tradition going, Rep. Conyers’ great-nephew, Ian Conyers, 29, plans to run for his district seat.  Ian Conyers currently serves as a State Senator for Michigan’s 4th District. However, according to the Detroit Free…