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Generation KKK: A&E Changes Docuseries Title, Partners With ColorOfChange Amid Backlash
Updated Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, 7:30 p.m. ET: On Saturday, A&E issued a statement saying it was canceling its show Escaping the KKK because its participants were paid, a violation of the network’s policy. Read more here. Earlier: After facing severe backlash across social media, A&E has announced that it is revamping its documentary series…
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UPDATE: Lana Sprayberry, Dallas Principal Under Fire After Her Fort Worth Post Went Viral, Resigns
Updated Saturday, Dec. 24, 7:01 p.m. EDT: Lana Sprayberry, principal of Inspired Vision Academy Elementary School in Dallas, has resigned amid calls for her to be fired. Good riddance. See the statement from A+Charter Schools Inc. below: Earlier: Lana Sprayberry, principal of Inspired Vision Academy Elementary School in Dallas, is under fire after her post…
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Woman Reports White Man Choked Her Son; Fort Worth, Texas, Police Assault, Arrest Her Instead
Updated Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, 4:12 p.m. EST: The Fort Worth Police Department has released a statement regarding the video showing a Fort Worth police officer assaulting and arresting Jacqueline Craig and her two daughters: We acknowledge that the initial appearance of the video may raise serious questions. We ask that our investigators are given…
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Sandbranch, Texas: A Small Community Denied Water for Over 30 Years Fights Back
Sandbranch, Texas, a small unincorporated community in Dallas County, has been fighting for over 30 years to have access to clean running water, but between the machinations of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Dallas County officials, the community continues to go without this most basic and critical of human rights. Sandbranch is located 14…
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#NoDAPL: Is It Time for Water Protectors to Leave Standing Rock?
After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Sunday that the Dakota Access Pipeline owners—Energy Transfer Partners, MarEn Bakken, Phillips 66 and Sunoco Logistics Partners—would not be granted easement to drill beneath Lake Oahe on the Missouri River, many water protectors at Standing Rock celebrated, but with the clear-eyed certainty that the fight is far from over.…
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#WalterScott: Prosecutor Insists, ‘We Will Try Michael Slager Again’
In a statement released Monday afternoon, Charleston County, S.C., prosecutor Scarlett A. Wilson said that she will retry former South Carolina Police Officer Michael Slager, 35, for the murder of 50-year-old Walter Scott. Wilson issued her statement soon after a jury deadlocked, for the second time, on whether or not the white police officer was guilty of shooting a fleeing,…
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#NoDAPL: Big Win at Standing Rock as Army Corps Denies Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline
Updated Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, 5:30 a.m. EST: Predictably, Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners—owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline—have made it clear that they aren’t going anywhere and that the Army Corps statement was just politricks as usual. Read the full statement below: For more than three years now, Dakota Access Pipeline has done…
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Revolutionary Road: Navigating Fidel Castro’s Polarizing Legacy
President Fidel Castro—El Jefe, El Comandante—the iconic Cuban leader whom the U.S. government has relentlessly vilified between attempts to assassinate him, is now dead. And as with most loved and loathed figures, fiery debates over how he should be remembered have sprung to life. In the cacophony of almost bestial glee and deep mourning that…
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‘Make America Great Again’ Billboard Sparks Controversy in Miss.
At first glance, the “Make America Great Billboard” on Highway 80 in Pearl, Miss., right outside of Jackson, looks as if it was bought and paid for by the Klansmen and/or Fraternal Order of Police that endorsed President-elect Donald Trump. But looks can be deceiving. WJTV.com reports that the billboard was paid for by For Freedoms,…
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‘White Working Class’ Narrative Is Nothing but a Racist Dog Whistle
Here we are, eight days removed from President-elect, and corrupt businessman, Donald Trump grabbing the Electoral College “by the p—sy” and violating his way into the White House. And predictably, instead of focusing on the wealthy white supremacist, xenophobic and misogynist elements of society that rose from their dirty corners and corner offices to vote…
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