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PTA in NYC Catches Heat for Using Blackface Photo for Fundraiser Message in the Year of Our Lord 2018
The Facebook post seemed innocuous enough. The parent-teacher association for Public School 118, The Maurice Sendak Community School, in Brooklyn, N.Y., had settled on a theme for its fundraiser: “Speakeasy.” The announcement, posted in January, came with an image broadcasting the date of the event and some 1920s Prohibition-era photos for the themed event. The…
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French Figure Skater’s Beyoncé Routine Gives Us #BlackGirlMagic on Ice
What hasn’t Beyoncé provided the soundtrack to? You’ve listened to her at weddings, at the Super Bowl, while applying your contour, while breaking up, while working it out and maybe even while nailing your infectious, world-class floor routine. Now the Undisputed Snatcher of Edges has conquered yet another venue: the Olympic ice-skating rink. France’s Maé…
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Black NYPD Commanding Officer Accused of Celebrating ‘Hate Group’ After #BlackLivesMatter Tweet
A black New York City Police Department commander is receiving sharp criticism from other law enforcement officers after her police precinct’s account tweeted out the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on Friday. According to the New York Daily News, Deputy Inspector Janice Holmes, who commands the NYPD’s 100th Precinct in the city’s Queens borough, is facing backlash from…
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NYC Investigates Principal Who Barred Black History Month Lessons From Being Taught at Her Middle School: Report
The New York City Department of Education is investigating a white middle school principal in the city’s Bronx borough for racially hostile actions against staff and students of color. The most incendiary charge: that Principal Patricia Catania barred Black History Month lessons from being taught to the students of Intermediate School 224—95 percent of whom…
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Color Me Surprised: Someone Was Actually Arrested During That Philly Super Bowl Celebration
Don’t look now, but it looks like raucous, white sports fans just trying to have a good time by destroying property actually can get arrested. WPVI-TV Philadelphia reports that police have arrested a 20-year-old man on charges he damaged a Nissan Rogue SUV that was flipped over during the over-the-top and destructive celebrations in the…
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How Last Year’s Hurricane Season May Have Decimated the Virgin Islands’ Middle Class: Report
Back-to-back strikes from two major hurricanes last year, Irma and Maria, have undone years of economic and social growth in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a new report from the Washington Post finds. The storms have so thoroughly disrupted the islands’ economy, education and health systems that “a generation of Virgin Islanders” may have been “blown…
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Attorneys for Bullied Gay Teen Want Manslaughter Charges Dismissed After Cellphone Video of Attack Emerges
The video is grainy, and it’s difficult, at first viewing, to tell what exactly is happening. But the crucial nine seconds it catches—of three teens engaged in a disruptive fistfight—is enough, defense attorneys say, to get manslaughter charges against their client Abel Cedeno dropped. Cedeno made headlines last year after stabbing two classmates, Matthew McCree…
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Drake Blessed 2 Miami Schools With a Scholarship, New Uniforms and Impromptu Concerts
Drake made surprise visits to the University of Miami and Miami Senior High School on Monday. The rapper-singer, who’s currently promoting his new single, “God’s Plan,” filmed portions of his visit and sprinkled a little do-good along the way. Drake’s first stop was Miami Senior High, where he gave students an impromptu performance of “God’s…
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The Loving Generation Explores the Lives of Biracial Children Born After Mixed-Race Marriages Were Legalized
When you meet someone who identifies as biracial, what do you see? An imposter? A person in denial? A person who wants to acknowledge every part of themselves? Someone who wants to name a very specific experience? Or someone longing to place themselves adjacent to whiteness? A new digital documentary series on Topic, The Loving…
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth Isn’t Here to Clap for ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’
What you’re not going to do is tell Iraq War vet and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) what is and isn’t treason. The Black Hawk-helicopter pilot who lost both legs during her service took exception to President Donald Trump’s comments Monday that Democrats who didn’t clap for him during his State of the Union address…
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