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#NotTheOnion: Trump Tells World Leaders to Call Him on His Cellphone
If this weren’t a matter of national and global security, the jokes would write themselves. President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and telling them to call him “late night when you need my love” directly, raising security concerns for anyone with common sense. Trump has insisted that Canadian…
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White Calif. Man Charged With Hate Crime After Stabbing Black Man With Machete: Report
Anthony Hammond, 34, was arrested Saturday night in Clearlake, Calif., after yelling racist slurs at a black man while stabbing him with a machete, authorities say. According to Lake County News, Hammond was arrested on an array of charges, including aggravated mayhem, battery with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, felony resisting executive…
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#DariusSmith: 15-Year-Old Boy Fatally Shot by Customs Agent; Family Demands Answers
The family of Darius Smith, a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot by an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Friday night in Arcadia, Calif., is disputing the official narrative and demanding justice. According to the agent, Darius and two 14-year-old boys tried to rob him at gunpoint after they all exited a train…
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Kingston Frazier Buried With Blue Power Ranger, Ninja Turtle: His Last Day Was ‘the Happiest Day of His Life’
On Wednesday, May 17, Kingston Frazier’s last full day on earth, he rode the bus home from North Jackson Elementary School in Mississippi. He was excited because he knew that he would be graduating from kindergarten to first grade the next day. It was “the happiest day of his life,” Ebony Archie, the 6-year-old boy’s…
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Ky. to Close Juvenile Detention Center Where 16-Year-Old Gynnya McMillen Was Found Dead
The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice announced on Wednesday that the Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center—where 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen was found dead in her cell on Jan. 11, 2016, after four staff members pinned her down with an Aikido martial arts restraint hold—will close in mid-June. CBS News reports that the department attributes the closure…
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Texas Police Chief Under Investigation for Arresting Black Pageant Winner and Allegedly Calling Her ‘Black Bitch’
Updated Friday, May 26, 2017, 4:41 p.m. EDT: The City of Commerce is doubling down on its suggestion that Commerce Police Chief Kerry Crews was not the man who referred to Carmen Ponder as a “black bitch,” though still not denying that Crews was present as one of his police officers physically assaulted her and…
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Nicholas Dean, New Orleans Charter School Principal Caught Wearing Nazi Rings and Appearing on ‘White Genocide’ Podcast, Removed From Campus
Updated Thursday, May 25, 2017, 2:45 p.m. EDT: Nicholas Dean has been fired from his position at Crescent Leadership Academy. “He will not return as the Principal or be associated with Crescent Leadership Academy,” the charter school’s parent group and board said in a statement Thursday. Crescent Leadership Academy Superintendent Tracy Bennett-Joseph confirmed Monday that…
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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on Terrorist, Genocidal Confederate Symbolism Is One for the History Books
With the weight of history bearing down on his shoulders, a resolute calm in his gaze and a slight tremble in his voice that spoke not of nervousness but of a deep awareness that the words he was about to speak would be recited by generations to come, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu stepped to…
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#TakeItDown: Lawyers File Federal Lawsuit Against Miss. Legislators Who Advocated Lynching People Who Support Confederate-Monument Removal
Attorneys Charles E. Lawrence III and Michael T. Scott have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of their client, attorney Carlos E. Moore, against Mississippi state lawmakers who advocated the lynching of people who support the removal of Confederate monuments. As previously reported by The Root, Mississippi state Rep. Karl Oliver wrote a Facebook post…
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Mistrial Declared in Trial of Texas Cop Who Shot Black Man Holding Barbecue Fork in His Own Yard
A Tarrant County, Texas, judge declared a mistrial Wednesday morning in the case of a white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer who shot a black man holding a barbecue fork in front of his own home. According to WFAA, at approximately 3:30 a.m., June 23, 2015, Police Officer Courtney Johnson was in a residential neighborhood…
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