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Sex Offender Owns Up to Making Racist Death Threats Against Howard Students
Given what we know about John Edgar Rust, it’s fair to call him a racist. The 26-year-old convicted sex offender admitted in a Virginia court on Tuesday that he was responsible for threatening Howard University students online with violent, racist messages in 2015. The death threats, made on 4chan and Reddit, declared that “any niggers…
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In Canada, You Can Now Use Bills With a Black Woman on Them
While Americans are still waiting to deposit Harriet Tubmans in their bank accounts, our neighbors to the north have just unveiled a new $10 bill that features their own civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond. As the Toronto Star reports, Desmond was honored Thursday in a ceremony in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the new bill was…
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The New York Times Finally Recognizes the Legacies of These World-Changing Black Women
On Women’s Day, the New York Times published an interactive collection called “Overlooked,” a series of obituaries written for notable figures who are long gone but for myriad reasons were not recognized by the Times when they died. In it, the Times acknowledges that over the years, it has repeatedly neglected to recognize notable women…
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All Eyes on Atlanta: Season 2 Premiere Lands Best Ratings of Any Recent Cable Comedy
If you were busting a gut over “Florida Man” in Atlanta’s season premiere, it turns out you had lots of good company. Complex reports that the premiere of Atlanta’s season 2, or Robbin’ Season, was seen by 2.7 million total viewers, 1.3 million of whom were in the coveted 18- to 49-year-old demographic. As FX…
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A Texas Judge Used Electric Shocks to Force a Defendant to Cooperate: Report
To understand this story, you first have to know that in Tarrant County, Texas, courtrooms, stun belts capable of carrying electric shocks are sometimes strapped to defendants’ legs. These belts are intended as a safety precaution, used to shock defendants should they get violent or try to escape. But as the Washington Post reports, that’s…
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(He) Got That Glow: Daniel Kaluuya Shows Us That Fenty Makes the Fellas Flawless, Too!
This is Daniel Kaluuya’s first time running the hectic gantlet of awards season, but we wouldn’t know it. From his bold suit choices to his beauty routine, Kaluuya has emerged a real red-carpet winner. Kaluuya quickly became one of my red-carpet faves because of his love for strong suit colors—not shying away from burgundies and…
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You’ll Never Guess Who Doesn’t React Well When Women or People of Color Become Their Bosses
OK, you probably guessed. It’s white men. At first glance, especially if you’re a woman or minority in the workplace, this seems like the kind of news you could file under “Well, fucking duh.” But what’s notable here is the ways these white male leaders react. A recent study shared by MarketWatch and set to…
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw Gracing This Glorious Cover of British Vogue Is the Red-Velvet Magnificence We Need
A minor confession: Although Beauty and the Beast was my favorite Disney movie when I was growing up (bookish, socially awkward little girls, ftw!), I hesitated about, and ultimately didn’t watch, the live-action reboot. I stayed away because I simply couldn’t get over the fact that my perfect Belle, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, a woman so…
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Florida Teacher Claims Her White Nationalist Podcast Was ‘Satire’
Dayanna Volitich, the Crystal River, Fla., middle school social studies teacher who was recently accused by HuffPost of hosting a white nationalist podcast, has confirmed that the podcast is hers. However, Volitich, who ran the show under the pseudonym “Tiana Dalichov,” claims that the whole thing was satire. WFLA-TV, an ABC News affiliate, published a…
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The Same People Who Want to Keep Somalis Out of the US Want Trump to Let in White South Africans
South Africa’s Parliament, in a landmark vote last week, moved to amend the nation’s constitution to allow for the government to seize land from white South Africans without compensation. The controversial decision has sparked questions about what might happen to the white South African farmers who currently own the land, and how the land would…
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