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Friday 5.31.19

Philly D.A. Larry Krasner Says Meek Mill’s Judge Is Biased, Should Not Oversee Case

In a rare move, the Philadelphia District Attorney has called for rapper Meek Mill to get a new trial and has asked the judge to recuse herself. According to Philly DA Larry Krasner, Mill’s judge, Genece Brinkley, is biased and should not oversee the hip-hop artist’s case.

Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty Generated $500M In Sales In One Year, Now She’s On To Fashion

Rihanna did not come to play! The highly celebrated singer, actress and businesswoman is known for making waves with her signature art and style – and its positively affecting her bottom line. Her namesake Fenty Beauty make-up line made more than $500 million in sales its first year, reported the Financial Times.

JPMorgan Denies Discriminating Against Conservative Activists, Closing Their Accounts

A Washington, D.C. public policy research center wants JPMorgan Chase to guarantee it will never discriminate against conservatives after several bank customers’ accounts were closed.

A Dead Man Just Revealed The Trump Administration’s Plans To Rig Elections For White Republicans

A longtime Republican operative urged Trump administration officials to add a question to the 2020 census form that hasn’t been asked since the Jim Crow era, knowing full well that including this question “would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats” and “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites,” according to a document filed in federal court on Thursday.

Co-Conspirators: 40% Of American Slave Owners Were White Women With Direct Economic Investment

A new book reveals that white women not only owned slaves, but also had a vested economic interest in keeping the wretched institution intact. In “They Were Her Property: White Women As Slave Owners in the American South,” historian and UC Berkeley professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers details how some white women owned slaves before marriage and separately from their husbands.