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  • FBI to Review Hanging Death of Black, Muslim Teen After Suicide Ruling Changed

    The FBI said it is reviewing the hanging death of a black, Muslim teen after the medical examiner changed the cause of death from suicide to undetermined following pleas from family. According to KIRO 7, the bureau confirmed in a statement that it “is communicating with our police partners. We are aware of circumstances of…

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  • White Supremacists Take Responsibility for Racist Fliers at UMass Boston

    It’s a day ending in “y,” so of course there’s some racist incident happening at one American school or another. This time, a white supremacist group has claimed responsibility for a bunch of racist fliers that were put up across the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, sending officials and students on alert. According to the…

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  • Teyana Taylor Officially Launches Online Workout Series Fade2Fit

    You could be 90 days away from changing your life now that Teyana Taylor has finally officially released her online workout series Fade2Fit. If you admired Taylor’s intense snapback after having baby Junie and the fact that she gave everyone life when she appeared in Kanye West’s “Fade” video, all abs, sculpted arms and legs,…

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  • Flint, Mich., Residents to Start Paying Full Price for Water They Can’t Drink Without a Filter

    I’m pretty sure if you look up “adding insult to injury,” you’ll find the qualifier “forcing Flint, Mich., residents to pay full price for water that they cannot safely drink without a filter.” According to the Washington Post, on Wednesday, state officials are scheduled to end a program that helped pay residents’ bills since it…

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  • FBI Investigating Kan. Bar Shooting as Hate Crime 

    The FBI will be investigating the triple shooting at a Kansas bar that left one Indian national dead as a hate crime, the bureau announced Tuesday, although it declined to provide further information, citing the ongoing investigation. The shooting, which occurred last week at an Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kan., left Garmin engineer…

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  • Ga. Teen Shot Dead by Homeowner After Girl Sneaks Him Into House

    A Georgia community is left mourning for two families after a teenager was shot dead in Columbia County in an apparent misunderstanding. At 2:47 a.m. Saturday, 17-year-old Jordan Middleton went to a home in Grovetown, where the homeowner’s daughter sneaked him in, according to WJBF. The situation quickly turned sour after the 14-year-old girl’s dad…

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  • Spray Paint Marks Howard University as ‘Trump Plantation’

    This probably won’t end well. Twitter user @Italia_calino shared the image above on Tuesday morning, depicting sidewalks in Howard University’s Yard with the spray-painted message “Welcome to the Trump Plantation. Overseer: Wayne A. I. Frederick.” That message was not the only one marked on school premises, with others claiming that Frederick, the university’s president, doesn’t…

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  • La. House Candidate Caught in Blackface in Racist Tiger Woods Costume 

    It’s almost March, but the ghosts of Halloweens past still haunt us. Every year, without fail, particularly on Halloween, there is that one (usually more, let’s be honest) white person who seems incapable of coming up with a creative costume of a black individual without resorting to blackface. By now we shouldn’t be ignorant of…

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  • Ga. Couple Get Prison for Confederate Racist Terror at Black Child’s Birthday Party

    Because there is still a little justice left in this world, a Georgia couple reportedly broke down in tears Monday after being sentenced to prison for their involvement in a 2015 racist incident in which a group they were a part of waved Confederate flags, shouted racial slurs, and made armed threats at adults and…

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  • Trump’s DOJ to Drop Charge Texas Voter-ID Law Is Intentionally Discriminatory 

    I would say this current administration is looking funny in the light, but truth be told, it was looking funny in the dark to begin with. And now, on Monday, in a huge reversal, the Justice Department under the Trump administration has decided to drop the department’s position that Republican state lawmakers pushed Texas’ strict…

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