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Muslim Activists Raise More Than $70,000 to Repair Vandalized Jewish Cemetery
Recent headlines have been peppered with reports of various acts of violence, from vandalism to racist YouTube videos to other forms of hate speech—the list goes on and on. It is more than a little heartwarming, then, to see one community reach out to another. As of about 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Muslim activists had…
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Students Fight Back After School Asks Teachers to Remove ‘Anti-Trump’ Pro-Diversity Posters
Students at Westminster (Md.) High School are planning to take a stand after school administrators in Carroll County demanded that teachers take down posters promoting diversity from classrooms, deeming them “political” and “anti-Trump.” According to the Carroll County Times, the incident unfolded last Thursday when the posters were removed because of the allegedly negative view…
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Dylann Roof Went to Another AME Church After the Charleston, SC, Shooting: Report
Dylann Roof, the white supremacist convicted in the horrific attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., stopped at another AME church the night of the massacre, newly released court documents indicate. After the June 17, 2015, attack that left nine black parishioners dead, Roof left Mother Emanuel, the name by which…
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‘Kill All N–gers’: Va. University Investigating Racist, Hate-Filled Video
A Virginia university has launched an investigation into a disgusting, hateful video that was posted to YouTube but has since been removed because of a violation of the video-sharing site’s standards. In the video, a woman can be seen wearing a Donald Trump mask; dancing to music that promotes lynching, white power and the Ku…
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Owner of Burger King, Tim Hortons to Buy Popeyes for $1,800,000,000
Restaurant Brands International Inc., the owner of Burger King and Tim Hortons fast-food chains, is expanding its reach and entering the fried-chicken business, purchasing Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen for $1.8 billion in cash. According to Reuters, the deal is a bet by the Canadian multinational fast-food company that it can use its international reach to introduce…
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We’ll No Longer Be Able to Laugh Our Asses Off: Boxing Match Between Soulja Boy and Chris Brown Is Canceled
The trash-TV event of the year is apparently off. The celebrity boxing match between man children Soulja Boy and Chris Brown is reportedly off after Brown’s manager canceled the fight. As BBC notes, the fight, which started as a social media feud, was supposed to happen in Las Vegas over three rounds. Former heavyweight champ…
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Lindsay Lohan Says She Was ‘Racially Profiled’ at London’s Heathrow Airport for Wearing a Headscarf
Lindsay Lohan recounted for Good Morning Britain hosts how she was “racially profiled” at London’s Heathrow Airport while traveling to New York. Lohan said that the incident stemmed from her wearing a headscarf, which she said an airport agent asked her to remove. “When I was flying to New York recently, I was wearing a…
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Over 1,000,000 Visitors to National Museum of African American History and Culture Since Opening
The National Museum of African American History and Culture has reached a huge milestone in the few months it has been opened, hitting its 1 million-visitors mark last week. The museum announced the milestone Monday, noting that it has been just a little more than four months since its Sept. 24 opening. According to the…
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Conn. Interracial Couple Refuse to Remove Racial Slur on Door Until Cops Investigate
It’s been a month since someone spray-painted the word “nigger” on an interracial couple’s home in Stamford, Conn., over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, to be precise. However, the couple have refused to remove it, saying that authorities are not properly investigating the incident. And now the couple have received a blight citation…
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Uber Hires Ex Attorney General Holder to Probe Sex Harassment, Discrimination Claims
Uber has tapped former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help lead an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination made by a former female employee who made her claims public over the weekend in a blog post, the Washington Post reports. In a memo shared Monday, CEO Travis Kalanick told employees the review…
