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Undocumented Immigrant Married to Trump Supporter Deported to Mexico
On Wednesday, a Trump supporter felt the full brunt of the current president’s strict stance against immigrants when her husband was deported to Mexico. Helen Beristain openly acknowledges voting for Donald Trump even though she is married to an undocumented immigrant. As CNN notes, back in November, she claimed she thought Trump would only deport…
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19-Year-Old Charged in Quadruple Homicide at Chicago Restaurant
Authorities have arrested a 19-year-old who is facing murder charges in the suspected gang-related killings of four men at a South Side restaurant. Maurice Harris, arrested Tuesday, faces four counts of first-degree murder in the March 30 killings. Police say that Harris’ father died in another shooting a day earlier in the same neighborhood, the…
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Calif. Woman Shot to Death While Driving Her 2 Children to Day Care
A California mother was shot to death while driving with her two young children to day care Tuesday morning. According to CBS News, a $2 million warrant has been issued for the arrest of Dushan McBride, 43, of San Pablo, Calif., the estranged boyfriend of the victim, Rashanda Franklin. Franklin was found wounded behind the…
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Justice Department May Reopen Its Investigation Into Murder of Emmett Till
The investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till may once again be reopened by the U.S. Department of Justice, with the news coming just a week after Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed his support for pursuing and prosecuting those involved in the killing who went unpunished. “He said no one gets a pass,” Emmett’s…
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CNN Facing Racial-Discrimination Lawsuit Claiming African Americans Receive Lower Performance Ratings in Evaluations
Another major news network is facing allegations in a racial-discrimination lawsuit, stemming from a proposed class action in Georgia federal court. In the lawsuit, plaintiffs claim that at CNN and other Time Warner units, African Americans receive lower performance ratings in evaluations, that there are huge discrepancies in pay between employees doing similar jobs but…
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Texas Mother Raises Enough Money to Visit Son Before His Execution
A Texas mother whose son is on death row will be able to visit him a final time before his execution thanks to generous donors on a YouCaring campaign. “I can’t thank everyone enough for the donations. It has helped me to be there for my son when he needs his mother,” Marilyn Shankle-Grant wrote…
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Ohio Quadruplets All Earn Entry to Yale, Harvard
On Tuesday we celebrated #BlackGirlMagic after high school senior Ifeoma White-Thrope from New Jersey made a clean sweep in her college applications and was accepted into all eight Ivy League schools and Stanford, for good measure. Well, today, I’m bringing you some #BlackBoyJoy, after a set of Ohio quadruplets were all accepted into Yale and…
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White Man Attacked With Hammer at Gas Station Being Investigated as Possible Hate Crime
Police are looking for a New Jersey woman after she allegedly attacked a white man at a Virginia gas pump and called his wife—who is white—“racial slurs,” leading to the incident being investigated as a possible hate crime. According to WTVR, the incident occurred over the weekend at a Carmel Church Exxon gas station off…
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NJ Teen Accepted Into All 8 Ivies and Stanford
Black girl magic strikes again, and this time our shining star is a New Jersey high school student who just did a clean sweep of her college applications, racking up acceptances from all eight Ivy League schools as well as Stanford, just for good measure. Ifeoma White-Thrope, who attends Morris Hills High School in Denville,…
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Students Suspended for ‘Picking Cotton’ Promposal That Family Says Was ‘Inside Joke’
Two white South Florida high school students have been suspended after a photo of a racist promposal went viral. You know the one, where they’re standing on either side of a black student with a sign that read, “You may be picking cotton but we’re picking you to go to prom with us.” The girls…
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