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Fla. Pastor Forced to Flee Naked After Man Comes Home to Find Him With Wife
A popular Tallahassee, Fla., pastor was reportedly forced to run away naked after a husband came home early from work to find him having sex with the man’s wife. Stay with me. I know this sounds like a TV drama, but this really happened to popular pastor O. Jermaine Simmons earlier this month. According to…
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SC Restaurant Explains Help Wanted Sign That Read ‘Minorities Need Not Apply’
It was reportedly all a matter of miscommunication that led to a stir in Spartanburg, S.C., after a picture was taken at a restaurant of a help wanted sign that also declared “minorities need not apply,” WXII 12 reports. The sign, which had the discriminatory caveat in English and Spanish, was placed on the front…
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Police Use Mace on Anti-Trump Protesters in Columbus, Ohio
A Monday-evening protest in downtown Columbus, Ohio, was abruptly ended after police used mace on the demonstrators who were apparently blocking traffic, WBNS reports. According to the news station, the Columbus chapter of Socialist Alternative announced the rally on its Facebook page, saying that it was protesting President Donald Trump’s policies on everything from immigration…
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Trayvon Martin’s Parents Consider Running for Political Office
The parents of Trayvon Martin have been fighting for their son’s legacy and for racial justice for all since their son was gunned down five years ago by then-neighborhood shithead watchman George Zimmerman in a controversial shooting that fueled the Black Lives Matter movement. However, now, with a Trump presidency appearing to threaten whatever accomplishments…
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GoFundMe Campaign for Burned Texas Mosque Raises More Than $800,000
A South Texas mosque is receiving an outpouring of love and support after the building was burned down in a weekend fire, WFAA reports. According to the report, the fire started early Saturday morning at the Islamic Center of Victoria in Victoria, Texas. However, members of the mosque are urging people not to rush to…
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ACLU Receives $24,100,000 in Donations the Same Weekend as Trump’s Muslim Ban
The American people appear to be signaling that they will not be divided or sit quietly as President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring entry to refugees and citizens of seven majority Muslim countries goes into effect. According to CNN Money, the American Civil Liberties Union has received six times as much money over one…
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Malia Obama Seen at Dakota Access Pipeline Protest at Sundance
America’s former first daughter (fight me) is apparently keeping busy now that her dad has stepped down from the presidency. Malia Obama marked her first week as a “normal” person by attending an event supporting the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah,…
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UW-Madison Student Trying to Start White Nationalist Group on Campus Pleaded Guilty to Arson of Black Churches
You can’t make some stuff up. According to WISC-TV, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who is in the middle of trying to start a white nationalist group on campus has served time in federal prison for setting two black churches on fire. Daniel Dropik, 33, pleaded guilty to arson charges in 2005 after starting fires…
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Woman Who Caused Emmett Till’s Death Admits to Lying
We all (should) know the story of Emmett Till, the black 14-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered in August 1955 by two white men, J.W. Milam and his half-brother Roy Bryant. As the story goes, Emmett, who was visiting family in Mississippi, had gone into a store to buy some bubble gum. As he was…
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Ga. Police Chief Publicly Apologizes for Lynching of Black Man in 1940
Police Chief Louis Dekmar of LaGrange, Ga., publicly apologized Thursday more than 76 years after a black man was brutally murdered in the small town, CBS News reports. To be specific, Dekmar apologized for the lack of protection given to Austin Callaway when he was shot to death in 1940. According to Reuters, Callaway was…
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