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In his second State of the Union address, President Donald Trump offered a path forward for a divided nation--unifying even his fiercest critics behind at least some of what he is trying to do.

Russia jails Dane for six years in Jehovah's Witnesses purge  Reuters

A Russian court on Wednesday found a Danish adherent of the Jehovah's Witnesses guilty of organizing a banned extremist group and jailed him for six years in ...

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'Congress needs to do their job'

Spotify posted its first ever quarterly operating profit on Wednesday driven by a strong gross margin and slower-than-expected headcount growth, but it warned of a loss in 2019 and issued modest forecasts which disappointed investors.

How can too much vitamin D hurt a dog's health? And how common is death from vitamin D toxicity?

‘I’m the gay Tupac’

‘A rejection of the entire black awareness concept’

Fyre Fest lends itself to easy symbolism: the vapidity of millennial decadence, the crumbling of a fantasy. But there may be a silver lining in all the loss.

The irony, of course, is that the exhibit reflects every stereotype feminists claim to stand against, oversexualizing Ivanka’s body and ignoring her hard work.

The state is putting finishing touches on contracts that will allow private companies to operate their businesses in state parks and at historical sites.

Embattled Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) is counting on the establishment media to save him from having to resign, reports the National Journal's Josh Kraushaar.

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Sunday predicted Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) will resign following the revelation that his medical yearbook page contained a photo of a man wearing blackface and another dressed in a Ku Klux Klan rob...

Jussie Smollett performs in LA and tells the crowd he wants to clarify a few things  CNN

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The blackface scandal involving current (for now) Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has focused attention on racial attitudes from 1984, and renewed interest in a 1984 episode of the Nell Carter sitcom Gimme a Break! that dealt with the issue in searing fashion.

Northam now denies he appeared in the medical school yearbook photo depicting a blackface-adorned white person sharing a beer with a klansman, oddly explaining that he’s innocent because he clearly remembers donning blackface for a Michael Jackson costume, but not the other one.

At a bizarre press conference, Northam also briefly considered moonwalking for the assembled press, and shrugged off the nickname “coonman” that was printed under his name in the yearbook.

In the wake of the Northam scandal, that old Gimme a Break! episode has been circulating on social media as evidence that even in 1984, people knew blackface was unacceptable. But the full episode is something of a mixed bag in terms of assessing the culture’s attitude at the time.

The plot of the episode is that the youngest daughter, Samantha, becomes jealous of the attention that Nell gives to Joey, the youngest child in the household, and tricks him into performing in blackface at Nell’s church:

Naturally, all hell breaks loose, and when Nell finds out it was Samantha, she confronts her in raw fashion:

Carter’s work here is spot-on, but the show’s treatment of blackface as a trivial plot device, played for laughs to the live studio audience, more accurately mirrors the time. While 1984 wasn’t exactly 1954, it was also no age of enlightenment.

This was the year MTV had to essentially be blackmailed into playing Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” video, and it was still acceptable for the president of the United States to defend Jesse Helms for accusing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of being a communist.

Watch the full episode above, which features a knockout gospel performance by Nell Carter and a guest turn by future fictional POTUS Dennis Haysbert.

Duke University along with 93 other colleges, is demanding the Methodist church stop believing that homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching and accept members of the LGBTQ+ community into the church.

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Students may have been duped into enrolling, say officials

President Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he would let his son Barron Trump play football if he wanted to, but that he would not steer him into that decision."I just don't like the reports that I see coming out having to do with...