Jarvis DeBerry
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Louisiana, United States
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Chris Rock should have focused on Will Smith. But he couldn’t help himself.
There's a reason the comedian's audience appeared to gasp when he employed a sexist epithet to describe Jada Pinkett-Smith, who is married to Will Smith. → Read More
'Dilbert' deservedly gets canceled. But there’s more blame to spread around.
Scott Adams might not have made these specific racist remarks if not for Rasmussen Reports and its incendiary questions. → Read More
Republican rule returning smoking to the U.S. Capitol really stinks
Rep. Troy Nehls, a Republican from Texas, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and praised the expansion of places smoking is allowed in the U.S. Capitol. → Read More
Big-time football schools like Michigan State are cashing in on the sports betting frenzy
College football bets today are complicated by colleges like Michigan State and LSU partnering with online sports betting companies that target students. → Read More
After Hurricane Ian, GOP says Kamala Harris doesn't care about white people
Kamala Harris gave a long and thoughtful response to a question about the disparate impact of climate disasters. → Read More
Hurricane Ian exposes an insurance crisis that's much bigger than Florida
Rising housing prices is one way climate change will shift populations around. → Read More
We need to stop rewarding colleges for the percentage of applicants they turn away
Princeton University, ranked number one on the latest U.S. News & World Report list of top colleges, admits only 4% of the students seeking admission. → Read More
Dems inciting resentment over student loan forgiveness is unforgivably cowardly
Tim Ryan in Ohio and Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada are Democrats running for Senate who have criticized President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. → Read More
HBO documentary 'Katrina Babies' isn't the tearjerker you might expect it to be
The film is an example of young Black people wresting the narrative away from the presumed experts. → Read More
This Black man looking for 'KKK Democrats' has his sights set on the wrong party
In a new ad, Jerone Davison, a Black Republican in Arizona running for Congress, scares off what he calls Ku Klux Klan Democrats with an assault-style rifle. → Read More
How America continues to embarrass itself in its attempts to handle Covid
As Covid cases and deaths rise, congressional Republicans have effectively obstructed President Joe Biden’s $22.5 billion request for more Covid relief funds. → Read More
Why Biden's focus on AR-15s wasn't the speech Americans most needed to hear
In a Thursday night White House address, President Joe Biden mourned the Uvalde, Texas, shooting and called for more restrictions on AR-15-style weapons. → Read More
Conservatives' appropriation of MLK just reached a shocking new low
Josh Mandel, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, in a campaign ad attacks critical race theory from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. → Read More
Mark Meadows voter fraud allegations make Trump's big lie an even greater outrage
The New Yorker reports that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows registered to vote in 2020 using a mobile home he didn't own as his domicile. → Read More
Immunocompromised people are being disregarded by policies that lift mask mandates
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering changing its masking guidance, but as more than 2,000 people die every day from Covid, immunocompromised people are worried. → Read More
Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel ought to know why he's being asked about race
The Miami Dolphins hired Mike McDaniel, who's biracial, after the coach they fired, Brian Flores, accused the NFL of discriminating against Black coaches. → Read More
HBCU bomb threats are the latest racist response to Black success
Predominantly Black spaces don't operate like predominantly white ones do. → Read More
Welfare funds going unspent as pandemic increased poverty is a moral outrage
As the pandemic raged in 2020, the states ended fiscal year 2020 with $5.2 billion in unspent aid from their Temporary Assistance for the Needy Families grants. → Read More
Telling President Biden 'Let's go Brandon' on Christmas Eve warrants a lump of coal
Jared Schmeck, in a Christmas Eve call with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, said, “Let’s go, Brandon,” code for a profane dismissal of Biden. → Read More
Emmett Till case being closed by DOJ guarantees no one will pay for his lynching
Justice Department's closure of Emmett Till case ends what little hope for justice that remained more than 65 years after the 1955 lynching. → Read More