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  • More German Soccer Players Have Taken a Knee Than US Baseball or Hockey Players

    On Saturday the German soccer club Hertha Berlin took a knee in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick and other U.S. athletes who have used the gesture to protest racial injustice. According to the New York Times, the Bundesliga club’s entire starting lineup took a knee on the pitch prior to their match. Off the field, the…

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  • #MeToo Highlights the Disturbing Prevalence of Sexual Harassment and Assault

    If you were online Sunday, chances are your timelines were flooded with the hashtag #MeToo, a social media campaign that highlights how common and widespread sexual abuse is by giving people the space to affirm their experiences with harassment and assault. The viral hashtag, which appeared on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, has been credited to…

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  • Staffer Working on Trump’s Voter-Suppression Commission Arrested on Child-Porn Charges

    A Maryland man working on Donald Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (aka “Trump’s voter-suppression commission”) has been arrested on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography. Ronald Williams II of Suitland, Md., was arrested last week on 11 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, the Washington Post reports. A senior administration…

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  • It’s Not Class, It’s Race: Why America Can’t Move Forward Until It Addresses the Racial Wealth Gap

    We don’t tend to look at the wealth gap as a form of violence, even though it’s certainly rooted in it. Take the massacre in Wilmington, N.C. The 1898 race riot is one of those stories that have been willfully erased from history, even though it is the only coup d’état to ever take place…

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  • Hundreds of NJ Students Protest After Cop’s Manhandling of 2 Teenage Girls

    A violent confrontation between two high school girls and a cop has caused hundreds of New Jersey students to walk out of school in protest. After two female classmates were manhandled by a cop, hundreds of students at a New Jersey high school walked out in protest Friday morning. According to WNBC-TV, the students marched…

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  • The Blood on Trump’s Hands: White House Ends Obamacare Subsidies for the Poor

    Donald Trump, saddled with a Congress that couldn’t repeal Obamacare, finally took matters into his own tiny hands yesterday. Unable to toss out the Affordable Care Act outright, Trump has instead opted to sabotage it. After signing an executive order Thursday morning that cripples Obamacare by loosening regulations on health plans, later that same afternoon,…

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  • Disaster Relief Workers in Puerto Rico Treat Themselves to Taxpayer-Funded ‘Spa Day' Given by … Puerto Ricans

    Here are a couple of things your tax dollars have paid for in the past few weeks: Vice President Michael Pence’s NFL protest/publicity stunt, the Scotch tape keeping Donald Trump’s ties together, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calling for Jemele Hill to get fired, and federal relief workers treating themselves to a “spa…

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  • Facebook Promises to Finally Add Black Member to All-White Board

    After being pressed by black lawmakers, Facebook has finally committed to hiring a black person to serve on its board of directors. Currently, no people of color sit on Facebook’s board. The commitment came during Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s visit to Capitol Hill Thursday to meet with members of the Congressional Black Caucus,…

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  • Did the Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Netflix Doc Steal a Black Trans Filmmaker’s Work?

    Accusations against David France, the award-winning director of the new Netflix documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, have been gaining steam in the last week. At the center of the growing controversy is a transgender woman of color, activist and filmmaker Reina Gossett, who claims that France lifted her work in making…

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  • Give Diddy the NFL Now

    Diddy has a message for Roger Goodell and the NFL: Let me #TakeDat #TakeDat. The richest man in hip-hop for 2017 took to social media Wednesday to put in a bid to buy the NFL. In an Instagram post, Diddy proposed “our own” league where black players could express themselves however they saw fit. “My…

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