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KKK Starts Targeting High Schools, Goes Recruiting in Parking Lot Outside NC School Football Game
The Ku Klux Klan targeted a high school football game this weekend in North Carolina, putting recruitment flyers on vehicles at the Friday-night game at Gray’s Creek High School. According to the Fayetteville Observer, a leader of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan confirmed that someone from the hate group put flyers…
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Tenn. Man Says He Was Fired From Job After Not Standing During National Anthem at Weekend Event
I, as much as anyone, am fully aware that freedom of speech and expression is not equal to freedom from consequences. That being said, I do have some questions about employers who look to discipline employees for refusing to stand for the national anthem. One Tennessee man probably has more than a few questions himself…
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Snapchat Showing Ill. High School Student in Blackface Sparks Outrage
Another day, another high school student causing outrage because he or she thought it was a great idea to be on Snapchat in blackface. According to the Chicago Tribune, the photo of the student at Oak Park and River Forest High School stirred up tensions and controversy after it showed the student in blackface with…
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Miami Beach, Fla., Police Fatally Shoot 22-Year-Old University Student Accused of Running Over Officer
A Temple University student was shot dead by Miami Beach, Fla., police after authorities say she slammed her car into an officer Sunday night. Cariann Denise Hithon was in South Florida celebrating her 22nd birthday when she was killed, NBC 10 reports. According to the report, Hithon was driving a black BMW when she crashed…
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Deandre Harris Is Now Wanted in Connection With the Same Attack at a White Supremacist Rally Where He Was Seriously Injured, Because America
Deandre Harris, a 20-year-old black man who was viciously attacked by white supremacists at the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rally almost two months ago, is now a wanted man after a local magistrate issued a warrant for his arrest in connection with the same Aug. 12 incident that left him bloody and wounded. Harris, according…
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Detroit Firefighter Fired After Gifting Watermelon to Majority-Black Station
One Detroit firefighter is out of a job after he decided to give a gift of a giant watermelon, all topped with a pink bow, as he introduced himself to who would have been his new colleagues at Engine 55. However, according to WJBK-TV, the gift did not go down well at the fire station,…
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Texas Mom Goes Through 9 Surgeries to Look Like Melania Trump
First ladies are often looked to as fashion icons. However, one Houston mom seems to have taken that admiration to the next level after having a grand total of nine surgeries done to look like first lady Melania Trump. This is not a drill. Claudia Sierra, 41, really committed to her vision, completing an eye…
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From Convicted Felon to Attorney: Reginald Dwayne Betts Wins Approval to Practice Law in Conn.
One extraordinary man is proving that it’s never too late to turn your life around, going from convicted felon to attorney-at-law after winning approval Friday to practice law in Connecticut after a state panel reviewed his moral character. According to the Associated Press, 36-year-old Reginald Dwayne Betts, an esteemed, award-winning author and a graduate of…
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Black Lives Matter Protests Police Shooting of Patrick Harmon in Utah
Black Lives Matter has turned its latest protests to Utah, where 50-year-old Patrick Harmon was shot by a police officer as he attempted to run away from officers. Of course, the district attorney called the shooting justified, claiming that officers feared for their lives even though Harmon was running in the opposite direction, which sparked…
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Banana Republic Employee Told Her Box Braids Are Too ‘Urban’ and ‘Unkempt’
A young black woman is accusing her managers at Banana Republic of “blatant racism,” saying that they targeted her over her hair, which was protected by box braids. According to a Facebook post shared earlier this week by Destiny Tompkins, her manager—a white man—labeled her hair “too urban” and “unkempt,” cited her for a dress…
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