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  • Will Justice Be Served? White University of Maryland Student Will Now Face Hate Crime Charge in Fatal Stabbing of Richard Collins III

    Looks like Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III may still get justice yet, now that a Prince George’s County, Md., grand jury decided Tuesday to hand up a hate crime charge against Sean Urbanski, a white University of Maryland student accused of fatally stabbing Collins. Urbanski, 22, is already facing a murder charge in Collins’…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 17, 2017
  • 9-Year-Old Fla. Child Dead After 325-Pound Adult Cousin Allegedly Sits on Her for Misbehaving 

    A 9-year-old Pensacola, Fla., child was killed after her 325-pound adult cousin allegedly sat on her as a way to punish the young girl for misbehaving. According to the Pensacola News, 64-year-old Veronica Green Posey is facing charges of homicide and cruelty toward a child following the incident that occurred Saturday afternoon. Paramedics found the…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 17, 2017
  • Racial Slur Written on Dorm-Room Door of Black Students at Mass. University

    Two Framingham State University students are terrified after a racial slur was found scrawled with permanent marker on their dorm-room door over the weekend. “When I saw it this morning, I was pretty hurt. I didn’t feel safe going back to my room and I felt like I was a target especially since it was…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 17, 2017
  • Colin Kaepernick’s Collusion Grievance Against NFL Draws Focus to Donald Trump’s Influence Over Team Owners, League

    Looks like President Twitter Fingers’ tweets and other forms of communications are going to be used as the central focus of Colin Kaepernick’s collusion grievance against the NFL. According to CBS Sports, a source with knowledge of the details of the grievance says it is expected to point to the current culture that has been…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 17, 2017
  • At Least 277 Dead After Double-Car Bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia 

    A devastating double-car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, has left at least 277 confirmed dead in what officials are calling one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s modern history. According to CNN, some 300 injured people remain hospitalized after Saturday’s dreadful attack. Some 40 of those wounded had such severe injuries that they were not…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 16, 2017
  • Tamika Mallory, Co-Chair of Women’s March on Washington, Says American Airlines Pilot Kicked Her Off Flight Over Seat Dispute

    Tamika Mallory, the co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, says that she was kicked off an American Airlines flight on her way back home to New York from Miami after a pilot got involved in a seat dispute that she had taken up with a gate agent. According to Mallory, the pilot took it…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 16, 2017
  • ‘You Are My Slave’: Ga. Mom Furious After White Student Targets Son During School’s Civil War Day

    A Kennesaw, Ga., mother is demanding answers after a white student called her son a slave during the school’s Civil War Day last month. According to the Associated Press, Big Shanty Intermediate School—which is near Kennesaw Mountain, where Confederate soldiers once fired their cannons at Union troops—encouraged fifth-graders to dress up as characters from the…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 13, 2017
  • Parents Sue Miss. School District After White Teacher Allegedly Makes Comment About Hanging Black Child 

    Local parents have filed a lawsuit against a central-Mississippi school district after they say a white substitute teacher made a horrific, threatening racist comment about their black son being hanged. According to the Associated Press, Tony and Kayla Lindsey say that their son, who has since graduated, got into an argument in April and threatened…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 13, 2017
  • White Supremacists From Deadly Charlottesville, Va., Rally Being Sued

    Eleven people are stepping up and suing several white nationalists from the deadly Charlottesville, Va., rally, alleging that because of the white supremacists’ threats and violence, they suffered emotional and physical trauma. On Wednesday, a federal lawsuit was officially filed in Charlottesville and named 25 white nationalist individuals and groups, including national fuckboi Richard Spencer,…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 13, 2017
  • ‘We Should Have Hung All You … While We Had the Chance’: Parents Fear for Daughter’s Safety After Classmate Sends Her Threatening Message 

    It always amazes me when people don’t like being called racist, so then they jump to the most racist thing ever. That totally makes sense. Except now a Texas family are terrified because their daughter received a threatening message after she called out a classmate for being racist. According to the Houston Chronicle, the unidentified…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    October 12, 2017
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