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  • It’s Prom Season, Which Means the Racist Promposals Have Begun

    For some reason, it appears to be really hard to celebrate special occasions (or, let’s be honest, everyday life) without the whites somehow making it racist. Christmas? Just say hi to Zwarte Piet. Halloween? Let’s not even get started—otherwise we’re going to be here for a minute. And then there’s prom. It is still unclear…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 23, 2018
  • Black Woman Dragged to the Ground, Arrested by Officers in Alabama Waffle House Over Dispute About Plastic Utensils 

    Add asking about whether it’s protocol to pay for plastic utensils to the list of things you apparently can’t do while black without someone calling the police on you. Video footage showing the brutal takedown by police of a black Mobile, Ala., woman at a local Waffle House has sparked fury both online and in…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 23, 2018
  • 29-Year-Old James Shaw Jr. Hailed as Hero for Stopping Tennessee Waffle House Shooting

    James Shaw Jr. is a lot of things, an electrician, a father … and, as of now, a bonafide hero after he wrestled a gun away from an active shooter at a Tennessee Waffle House, putting an end to the gunman’s massacre. The early-morning Sunday shooting left four dead and several others injured. As The…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 23, 2018
  • Tennessee Mom Furious After Video Shows Teacher Dragging 7-Year-Old Boy Off School Bus by His Feet 

    A Memphis, Tenn., mom is demanding answers after horrifying video shows her 7-year-old son being dragged off a school bus by his feet … by a teacher who should know way better. In fact, Kimberly Hardin, the child’s mother, didn’t know what her son had gone through at the hands of the educator until another…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 20, 2018
  • Syracuse Fraternity Suspended Over Racist Videos Claims Horrific Behavior Was Just a ‘Satirical Sketch’

    The Chads are really trying it. The brothers of the suspended Theta Tau chapter at Syracuse University have issued an apology for their racist videos but still insist that the behavior depicted was not meant to be racist, but instead was part of a “satirical sketch” showing an uneducated, intolerant person. “Each semester our new…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 20, 2018
  • Stephon Clark’s Brother Stevante Arrested on Suspicion of Threats; Meanwhile, the Cops Who Killed His Brother Are Back on Duty

    Stevante Clark, the older brother of Stephon Clark, the unarmed man shot and killed by Sacramento, Calif., police, was arrested in that city Thursday on charges of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and making death threats. The older Clark brother, 25, was taken into police custody around 10 a.m. and is currently ineligible…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 20, 2018
  • California Store Clerk Calls Cops on Black Man Who Asked for Refund; Black Man Gets Beaten Bloody 

    The Merced, Calif., Police Department has launched an internal investigation after a black man was brutally beaten and injured while in custody. William Colbert’s arrest photo shows the 39-year-old’s face bloodied and bruised and one of his eyes swollen shut. “I have spoken with Mr. Colbert and collected all the statements about what he said…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 19, 2018
  • ‘When You Know That You Did Nothing Wrong, How Do You Really React?’: Men Arrested in Philly Starbucks Speak Out

    The two men who were arrested for merely existing in a Philadelphia Starbucks are finally speaking out about their ordeal and how it left them in fear for their lives as they were forced to interact with the police over a nonissue. Rashon Nelson told the Associated Press that he originally thought nothing of it…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 19, 2018
  • Syracuse University Suspends Frat Over Videos Showing ‘Extremely Racist’ Behavior

    It’s a day ending in “y,” so there’s yet another fraternity that is showing its whole entire (racist) ass to the universe, this time in video form. On Wednesday, Syracuse University decided to suspend its chapter of Theta Tau after online videos showed members of the frat engaged in behaviors that school Chancellor Kent Syverud…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 19, 2018
  • Texas Bar Owner Takes Down Sign With Racial Slur Following Facebook Posts, Insists It Wasn’t Meant to Be ‘Racial’

    The owner of a Fort Worth, Texas, bar saw nothing wrong with a sign that read, “SHUT UP NIGGER,” to the point where said sign is only coming down, reluctantly, after two customers shared photos on Facebook. According to James Emerson, the owner of Jim’s Rodeo Tavern, the sign was a sort of memorial to…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    April 19, 2018
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