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‘Why Do You Think Your Treatment of African Americans Is Justified?’ SC Elementary Teacher Poses Question to Students From KKK Perspective
What are the requirements for being a teacher looking like nowadays? Asking a question for a friend, because sometimes it looks as if some of these teachers really have no form of diversity training or even common sense. Our latest cringe-inducing, jaw-dropping example comes out of South Carolina, where a teacher at Oak Pointe Elementary…
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Tenn. University President Hosted Dinner for African-American Students Featuring Cotton-Stalk Centerpieces and ‘Black Meals’
One would assume that in order to be the president of an institute of higher education, the bare-minimum requirement would be some level of common sense (and diversity training). But alas, it seems as if that wasn’t the case at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., where the president has come under fire for hosting a…
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St. Louis Police Chant ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets’ While Making Arrests During Continuing Protests Sunday: Report
Well, in case you had any doubt, or were curious as to what police officers make of citizens attempting to assert their rights to peacefully assemble and protest the seemingly inexplicable killings of unarmed black men that go unpunished, here you have it. Police apparently thought it was appropriate to chant “Whose streets? Our streets”…
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Activist Claims Video Shows Kenneka Jenkins Walking Into Hotel Freezer Alone; Jenkins’ Mother Says Family Was Misrepresented
Updated Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, 4 p.m. EDT: The family of Kenneka Jenkins have released a new statement, saying that they have not received video footage of their loved one walking into a hotel freezer. According to a family statement, tweeted out by CBS Chicago reporter Audrina Bigos, the family have “only been provided snippets…
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Former St. Louis Cop Jason Stockley Found Not Guilty in 2011 Shooting Death of Anthony Lamar Smith
Again and again and again, it keeps happening. Another police officer has walked away without repercussions after gunning down a black man. On Friday morning, a St. Louis judge found now-former Police Officer Jason Stockley not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black motorist. St. Louis had…
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Mich. Teacher ‘Violently’ Drags Black 6th-Grader Out of His Seat After He Declines to Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance: Report
Everybody is all about freedom of speech and expression until a black person (hey, Colin Kaepernick; hey, Jemele Hill) decides to exercise his or her right to do so. And in this particular case, a black sixth-grader out of Michigan says he was assaulted by his homeroom teacher all because he was exercising his rights…
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More and More Black Women in Chicago Are Taking Their Safety Into Their Own Hands, Obtaining Concealed-Carry Gun Permits
It was Malcolm X who said, among other poignant notes, that “the most unprotected person in America is the black woman.” But black women have been living this reality since the beginning of time. At this point, they have started to take it upon themselves to make sure that they are prepared and armed, literally,…
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Ohio Mom Stabbed Boyfriend 6 Times After Finding Him Naked on Top of Her 12-Year-Old Daughter: Report
Police are investigating after officials say a Cleveland woman stabbed her boyfriend several times in a fit of righteous anger after finding him on top of her young daughter, naked, police records confirm. According to Cleveland.com, neither the mother nor the “man” (and that term is used loosely) has been charged in connection with the…
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White Man Who Yelled ‘Shut Up, Slave!’ at Black Man During Altercation at Chicago Starbucks Now Faces Hate Crime Charges
If you want to talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk. That is what William Boucher, 24, is learning after being caught on camera launching into a violent, racist rant, calling a black man a slave and comparing him to livestock after the man apparently spilled some coffee on Boucher’s light-colored suit. Hmm, there’s…
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Serena Williams Shares 1st Photo of Daughter
Tennis legend Serena Williams allowed fans another peek into her private life Wednesday, sharing the first photo of her newborn daughter and that her daughter is named after her fiance, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. “Meet Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. You have to check out link in bio for her amazing journey. Also check out my…
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