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It’s Bigger than Too $hort

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Rapper Too $hort gives sex advice to young boys

Celebrities don’t raise other people’s children, but they are responsible for what they put out in the universe. What Rapper Too $hort recently put out could be called criminal advice. He called it “fatherly advice” for young boys. This was not his usual demeaning music videos, but rather a talk that appeared in a video… Read more »

Black and Missing

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Black and Missing

You’ve heard it. You may have said it. “The news doesn’t cover missing black people.” Nearly half of all abducted children are black. One group says there are many reasons missing people of color sometimes do not get the attention needed to find them, and it starts with Amber Alerts. I spoke with the co-founder… Read more »