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Va. Mom Furious After Son, Black Classmates Told to Act Like Slaves for Skit
A Staunton, Va., mom is calling for action after her son, who is in the sixth grade at Shelburne Middle School, was caught up in a controversial history lesson, WHSV reports. Tamika Derozen said that her son’s class was learning about the Louisiana Purchase when “the teacher asked all of the African-American students to come…
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3 White Men Leave Black DC Waitress $450 Tip With Note: ‘Not Race. Not Gender. Just American’
A black Washington, D.C., waitress received a pleasant surprise Monday while working her usual shift at Busboys and Poets, a Washington restaurant that has its own distinct social-justice mission, the Washington Post reports. Rosalynd Harris went into work still in a great mood from Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington. The optimism of her customers over…
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Retrial Delayed for Ex SC Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott
Justice appears to have been delayed once more. On Tuesday a judge decided to postpone the retrial of former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager, who is facing murder charges in the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott during a 2015 traffic stop, Reuters reports. The trial is now expected to be delayed until…
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Flint, Mich., Water-System Lead Levels Are Now Below Federal Limit, Officials Say
The water crisis in Flint, Mich., is far from over, but the Associated Press reports that the city’s water system no longer has levels of lead that grossly exceed the federal limit. Michigan state environmental officials are calling this good news for the city, whose residents are still dealing with the fallout from officials’ negligence.…
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Pa. Restaurateur Accused of Calling College Student Racial Slur: ‘Trump’s President Now, so I Can Say What I Want’
You can’t even eat a meal in peace nowadays. An Annville, Pa., restaurant owner is accused of kicking a local college student out of his restaurant in the middle of his meal, calling the student a racial slur and then quipping that “Trump’s president … so I can say what I want,” Penn Live reports.…
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Former Mich. Cop Who Brutally Beat Black Motorist to Be Released From Prison
A former Inkster, Mich., police officer who was convicted after being captured on dashcam video repeatedly punching a black motorist during a traffic stop nearly two years ago is scheduled to be released from prison sometime this week, the Detroit Free Press reports. William Melendez was sentenced to spend 13 months to 10 years in…
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Baltimore Mom Furious After School Dental Program Removes Child’s Teeth Without Her Knowledge
When Shanda Flemming signed a permission slip regarding a dental program that was visiting her son’s school, she thought she was agreeing to a simple routine cleaning. However, as WJZ reports, the Baltimore mother was in for a rude awakening after her third-grader came home from school with not one, not two, but three of…
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas Appeal to Revive Strict Voter-ID Requirements
Score 1 for voting-rights advocates. On Monday the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear an appeal by Texas that sought to bring back the state’s strict voter-identification requirements, which had been found to disproportionately affect minorities, Reuters reports. In July 2016, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2011…
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More Than 90 Arrested in Inauguration Disturbances
More than 90 people were arrested in the nation’s capital on Inauguration Day following disturbances when some members of an unidentified group smashed the windows of cars and stores just before President Donald Trump was officially sworn in, ABC News reports. Interim Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham confirmed the arrests in a Periscope video posted…
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Tenn. Teen Who Accused Parents of Being Racist Toward Black Boyfriend Raises More Than $30,000
A Memphis, Tenn., high schooler who accused her parents of cutting her off because of her black boyfriend has raised almost $35,000 through a GoFundMe campaign meant to support her college tuition. According to the Commercial Appeal, Allie Dowdle, a white senior at the private Hutchison School, created a GoFundMe campaign Jan. 11, pleading with…
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