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Emmett Till Memorial, Marred by Vandalism for More Than 10 Years, Is Now Bullet-Proof
For more than 50 years, there was no marker at all to commemorate the lynching of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago boy brutally murdered by two white men while visiting his family in Mississippi. That changed in 2008 when the first memorial was erected on the banks of the Tallahatchie River, where local authorities first…
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How Chicago Public School Teachers Are Fighting for Black Children’s Futures
Class was canceled for 300,000 Chicago public school students Thursday, as tens of thousands of teachers and their supporters headed to the picket line to strike for better conditions in their schools. If you haven’t been paying attention, you might assume the Chicago Teachers Union’s escalation is a matter of money—and to be sure, there…
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Scamming-Ass Mom Who Falsely Claimed Her Son Was Black and Latino to Get Him Into College Gets 3-Week Prison Sentence
A white California mom who took part in a massive college scandal has been sentenced to three weeks in prison for trying to scam her son’s way into college. Federal investigators found Marjorie Klapper had committed multiple types of fraud in order to gain entry for her two children, including claiming one was a black…
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Virginia Strikes Down Jim Crow-Era Law Requiring Couples to Disclose Their Race on Marriage Applications
For nearly 100 years, the Commonwealth of Virginia has required all couples seeking a marriage license to disclose their race. On Friday, a federal judge found that requirement unconstitutional, writing that the rule “burdens their fundamental right to marry.” As the Richmond Times-Dispatch writes, Judge Rossie D. Alston ruled on a lawsuit brought forward by…
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Take Two: Gina Rodriguez Issues Second Apology to 'Community of Color' for Saying N-Word in Instagram Video
The best apology is corrected behavior, they say. But in actress Gina Rodriguez’s case, she’s hoping an iOS press release will do the trick. The Jane the Virgin star took to Instagram once again Tuesday night to address a video she posted earlier that day where, while singing along to the Fugees’ “Ready or Not,” Rodriguez…
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'Bernie's Back': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Plan to Endorse Bernie Sanders
Three out of four members of “The Squad”—the influential freshmen congresswomen who have become the face of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing—are planning to endorse Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for president. The Washington Post first broke the news Tuesday night, as Sanders and other top Democratic presidential contenders traded barbs and made the case for…
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'I Love Lauryn Hill': Gina Rodriguez Is Very Sorry You're Mad at Her for Saying the N-Word in Instagram Video
Here we all were, minding our own business on a Tuesday, eating our late lunches and trying to stay hydrated when Gina Rodriguez had to start some shit. The Jane the Virgin star, whose comments about race in the past two years have raised many an eyebrow and rolled many an eye, posted an Instagram…
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Sure, You Can Ask Rihanna About Getting Pregnant—If Your Name Is Anna Wintour
There are precisely two questions Rihanna has been fielding constantly all year—all with fairly good humor: 1) Where is that album you promised? (Answer: lol) and 2) So, uhmm…baby? The latter could easily fall under the category of gross, presumptive and very gendered prying were it not for the fact that Rihanna has hinted quite…
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Three More Women Accuse Cuba Gooding Jr. of Groping Them
Three more women have come forward to allege Cuba Gooding Jr. groped them, bringing the total number of people accusing the Academy Award-winning actor of sexual misconduct to five. The new allegations hit as Gooding is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday in Manhattan on forcible touching charges involving two different women. The most recent…
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The Curious, Confounding Case of Christopher Bowen
Kaylene Bowen-Wright was sentenced to six years in prison last Friday after years of subjecting her 10-year-old son, Christopher, to invasive medical procedures—including more than a dozen major surgeries within a seven-year span. Bowen-Wright’s case is considered by medical experts to be a particularly severe case Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a person exaggerates…
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