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Trial of DeAndre Harris, Black Man Beaten During Charlottesville, Va., White Supremacist Rally, to Begin Friday
You may remember the story of DeAndre Harris. The black Charlottesville, Va., resident was brutally beaten and severely wounded by white supremacists in August in a parking garage attack during the Unite the Right rally. Well, despite the fact that Harris was the one who was viciously attacked and left with a broken wrist and…
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Vince Staples Gets the Last Laugh, Shuts Down GoFundMe Campaign to Send Him Away and Donates Money to Michelle Obama Library
Well, it looks as if the people who had issues with Vince Staples couldn’t put their money where their mouths were and donate the $2 million he requested in exchange for completely disappearing. On Wednesday the rapper announced that he was going to cancel the GoFundMe that was set up, as well as refund all…
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‘I Hope It’s a Trap and Y’all Get Shot’: Sister of White Supremacist Dylann Roof Sends Hostile Snapchat, Is Arrested on Charges Over Weapons, Drugs on School Grounds
Well, it certainly looks as if the same rotten tree produced the same rotten fruit. And as it turns out, while some students were marching for their lives on National Walkout Day to protest gun violence, Morgan Roof, the sister of white supremacist and mass murderer Dylann Roof, was on social media expressing her disgust.…
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California High School Teacher Fires Gun in Classroom During Safety Lesson, Injures 3 Students and … Must I Really Go On?
Today in “This is exactly why schools should be gun-free zones” news, a Seaside, Calif., teacher—who is also a reserve police officer, mind you—somehow accidentally fired a gun inside a local high school classroom on Tuesday, injuring three students. What makes this even more depressing? The incident occurred during a course about gun safety. According…
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British Schoolboys Accused of Whipping Black Student in ‘Mock Slave Auction’
Well, some of our neighbors across the pond appear to have lost their damn minds. Currently, police in the U.K. are investigating an incident in which multiple white teenagers apparently chained a black student to a lamppost, whipped him with sticks and called him racist slurs as part of a “mock slave auction.” The incident…
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‘We’re Not Racist’: Maine IHOP Manager Suspends Server After She Asks Black Teens to Pay Up Front for Their Meals
The manager of an IHOP in Auburn, Maine, is making it clear that no one should or will ever have to pay up front for a meal at the establishment after an incident of racial profiling over the weekend. “And we’re trying to let everybody know that we’re not racist,” Melvin Escobar, the manager, told…
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Alabama Sheriff Pocketed Extra Money From Jailhouse Food Funds, Bought $740,000 Beach House
One Alabama sheriff is freely acknowledging that he has been pocketing excess jailhouse food funds—you know, the money meant to feed inmates—in order to buy himself a snazzy, six-figure beach home. According to AL.com, Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin and his wife, Karen, purchased the four-bedroom home with an in-ground pool and canal access in…
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What Kind of Impact Do School Shootings Have on Kids? Well, Ask This Alabama 6th-Grader Who Just Wrote a Will
No student at any age should go to school wondering if they’ll even walk back out. No child should already have a “will” prepared just in case they never return home from school. Unfortunately, in this country, it seems that we don’t care, as lawmakers refuse to put effective gun control measures into place, while…
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Package Bombs That Killed 2 in Austin, Texas, Are Connected, Police Say
The city of Austin, Texas, is on edge after authorities said Monday they believe that three package explosions occurring at different homes this month, causing the death of two people, are connected. As the Washington Post notes, the announcement has spiked fears in the Texas state capital, which is also hosting tens of thousands of…
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National Geographic Snatches Its Own Wig Over Racist Past
This may come as a surprise to no one, but [stage whispers] National Geographic (along with many other publications) used to be hella, obviously racist. Shocking. I know. But as it turns out, we don’t even need to lash out at Nat Geo for its racist past, as the world-renowned magazine that explores science, geography,…
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