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Three Black Senators Introduce Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Hate Crime
The Senate’s lone black members, Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), introduced a bill Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill is similar to one introduced earlier this month by Rep. Bobby Rush, Democratic congressman from Ill., which has 35 co-sponsors from the Congressional Black Caucus. The…
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Toronto Principal Transferred After Being Accused of Racially Profiling Students With ‘Black List’
To hear Principal Peggy Aitchison of Etobicoke School of the Arts tell it, she was just trying to track gaps in educational support and achievement. So she crafted a list of students which she she shared with other staff at ESA in November. The issue? The list comprised only the school’s black students—including its valedictorian.…
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Black-Owned Indiana Gaming Lounge Targeted With Hate Note, 'We Don't Support Black Business': Report
Lvl Up, a new gaming lounge in the Irvington neighborhood of Indianapolis, Ind., has yet to officially open its doors, but owner Sami Ali already has cause for concern. On June 23, the business received an anonymous note in the mail that read, “Close Shop! We don’t support black business owners!” Ali said the note…
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John Legend Cussing Up a Storm About Sarah Sanders Is the Soundtrack You Need Today
At this point we’re fairly used to TV host and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen—who is, hands down, the best person on Twitter—being the voice-y one in the relationship. But that wasn’t the case Wednesday night, when a TMZ reporter ran up on Teigen and her husband, singer John Legend, as they left a restaurant in…
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‘Silence Is Common’: White Man Who Put Racist Restaurant Owner on Blast Says White People Need to Speak Up About Racism
For weeks, Don Merckle wondered what he might have done to make the owner of Main Street Public House confide in him about his racism. Was it his tattoos? His trucker hat? His beard? As Merckle, a musician based in Columbia, S.C., tells it, he was in a bar talking to co-owner Jimmy Latulipe about…
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When Caucasity Costs You Your Coin: #PoolPatrolPaula Fired After Harassing Black Teens at Public Pool
The woman known to many online as Pool Patrol Paula (real name: Stephanie Sebby-Strempel) may soon be an Unemployment Line Lindsey. Sebby-Strempel’s employer, Rodan + Fields, an American skin-care company, cut her this week after the backlash against Sebby-Strempel made its way into the company’s inboxes and Twitter mentions. “In accordance with our policies and…
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High School Antwon Rose Jr. Attended Faces Allegations of Brutal Police Abuse: Report
The video doesn’t allow for much interpretation. Taken in March 2015 at Woodland Hills High, the Pittsburgh school Antwon Rose Jr. attended, the footage shows a school police officer walking up to a black male student who had been sitting down, his hands fixed on his lap, a notebook under one hand, his entire posture…
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Kendrick Lamar on Survivor’s Guilt, White People Saying the N-Word and the Magic of South Africa
Kendrick Lamar has been on one hell of a roll this year. The rapper has received both critical acclaim and commercial success since his studio album debut, Good Kid M.A.A.D City, but 2018 has thrust Lamar fully into the forefront of American pop culture. After winning the Grammy for best rap album and a Pulitzer…
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White Georgia Cop Faces Voluntary Manslaughter Charge in Death of Black Motorist
For at least the second time this week, a white police officer has been charged in the death of an unarmed black person. Kingsland, Ga., Police Officer Zechariah Presley was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of Anthony Green, a black motorist who was shot while running away from Presley. CBS News reports that…
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Officer Who Killed Unarmed Teen Antwon Rose II Charged With Homicide
Officer Michael Rosfeld, the East Pittsburgh police officer caught on camera shooting an unarmed 17-year-old in the back as he ran away, has been charged on one count of criminal homicide. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rosfeld turned himself in at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in City Court in downtown Pittsburgh, where he was granted an…
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