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PolitiFact Schools White People Who Refused to Believe White House Was Built by Slaves
It seems that some people may have failed history. Or maybe it’s more a sign of how broken the education system is that PolitiFact actually had to go out and fact-check whether the White House was built by slaves after first lady Michelle Obama mentioned that fact during her rousing speech at the Democratic National…
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Trump Disses Cory Booker on Twitter; Booker Responds With Love
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker isn’t at all disturbed by Donald Trump’s attack on him after Booker’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. In fact, Booker has taken to responding to Trump with love, CNN notes. “I love Donald Trump,” Booker said Tuesday on CNN’s New Day. “I don’t want to answer his hate…
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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton Announces Plans to Step Down by End of 2017
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton confirmed Monday that he has no intentions of remaining the head of the Police Department past the end of 2017, CBS News reports. “I do not intend to stay into a second term,” Bratton said during an unrelated news conference with New York City’s mayor. According to CBS,…
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Who's Running the DNC? Black Women
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) took her place as chair of the Democratic National Convention, and although the role was unexpected, NBCBLK notes, the Ohio congresswoman made a point to open with a call for unity and respect. “We’re all Democrats and we need to act like it,” Fudge said Monday, vowing a “different kind of convention than…
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Ind. Mom Finds Racist Messages Scrawled All Over Property
A southern-Indiana mom is trying to get herself out of a lease after waking up to hateful messages written all over her property last week, WDRB reports. On Wednesday, Mia Frias-Russell woke to a disturbing sight that she said left her no longer feeling welcome in Campbellsburg, Ind. “I was just shaking and in so much fear…
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Ohio Attorney Faces Jail for Refusing to Remove Black Lives Matter Pin
An Ohio attorney was sentenced to five days in jail after refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter pin she was wearing. According to the Washington Post, an Ohio judge had told attorney Andrea Burton that there had been complaints about her pin and that court officials were not allowed to wear political pins in…
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Michael Jordan Speaks Out on Police Brutality, Targeting of Cops
Basketball legend Michael Jordan is speaking out on the shootings of black Americans, as well as the recent attacks on officers, issuing a statement today through The Undefeated in which he declares that he “can no longer stay silent”: As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of…
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President Obama’s Brother Endorses Trump for President
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has reportedly secured the vote of President Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik Obama, Reuters reports. Malik Obama told Reuters that he supports Trump’s policies, particularly his focus on security, and he also likes the nominee’s straightforwardness. “He appeals to me, and also I think that he is down to earth…
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#PokémonGoWhileBlack: Police Point Guns at Iowa Football Player They Say Fit Description of Bank Robber
A University of Iowa defensive end took to Facebook Wednesday to describe a frightful encounter with police while outside playing Pokémon Go in an Iowa City, Iowa, park last week, the Washington Post reports. “Today was the first time I’ve truly feared my life and I have the media to thank for that,” Faith Ekakitie, a…
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Ky. Teens Mow Lawns for Free
It was meant to be a punishment. Kentucky mom Barbara Wilson said that she tried to punish her son Travis Durham by making the teen mow lawns for free. She told Travis to mow a couple of their neighbors’ yards. However, according to WDRB, Travis ended up loving the job so much that by the time…
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