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'Stand Your Ground' Is for White People: Markeis McGlockton’s Lawyer Says the Statute May Be Legal But It’s Not Moral
Like most of us, Michael McGlockton became familiar with Florida’s “stand your ground” law in 2012 when 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed outside his father’s home by an armed “neighborhood watchman.” “For the most part, that’s when I started paying attention to it,” said Michael McGlockton in an interview with The Root. He…
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When Black Lives Are Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back!
It seemed like the “alt-right” got the memo that spewing hateful rhetoric and inciting violence like we saw last year in Charlottesville, Va., only further marginalizes them. The few neo-Nazis, white nationalists and sympathizers who were present at the Unite the Right 2 March were completely dwarfed and drowned out by thousands of counter-protesters. Black…
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Breaking Hate: What a Former White Supremacist Says Will End Racism May Suprise You
We’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating—black people can’t rid white America of its cancerous racism—that’s going to be an inside job, by them, for them. As we mark the one-year anniversary of the bloody disaster that was the so-called Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., it behooves us to start…
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'Tired of Talking': Nashville Community Demands Police Chief's Resignation After Cop Shoots Black Man in Back
“Just because someone is running away from you doesn’t mean you can gun them down. Just because someone doesn’t listen to you doesn’t mean you can gun them down” – Pastor Napoleon Harris, First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tenn. text Pastor Harris is referring to 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick, who was fatally shot in the back after…
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#BrooklynBecky Exposes 'Wokewashed' White Supremacy
“You’re standing on public property, ma’am. This is not public property,” starts the now-viral #BrooklynBecky video. The 19-year-old white woman of Puerto Rican heritage, who uses the name “Bella” on social media, directed her confused statement to Darsell Obregon, as she called the police on her. Why did Brooklyn Becky alert the authorities? For Obregon’s…
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A Year Later: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville Explores the Growing White Nationalist Movement in America
As the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville, Va., Unite the Right rally approaches, many still cannot wrap their minds around the hundreds if not thousands of white supremacist sympathizers who descended on a bucolic college town and wrecked violent havoc—one anti-racism protester was killed, dozens more were hospitalized—in the year of our Lord 2017. Many…
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Video Shows Detroit Cop Beating a Naked Black Woman Who May Have Been Mentally Ill
An unnamed Detroit police officer who was captured on video viciously pummeling a naked black woman in a hospital has been suspended without pay. Chief James Craig confirmed at a Thursday press conference that the officer, an 18-year veteran, and a corporal, has never had a “category one” use of force incident (when force leaves…
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Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins Pays Homage to Baldwin on His Birthday
Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight, which snagged 2017’s Best Picture Oscar, is back with If Beale Street Could Talk, based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel. On what would have been Jimmy’s 94th birthday, Jenkins paid tribute to the Harlem-bred novelist and social activist by releasing the film’s trailer on Thursday. “For me, August 2nd has…
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Alex Trebek Suggests Black Lawyer, Laura Coates, to Replace Him as Host of Jeopardy
Alex Trebek, host of our dearly beloved nightly nerd fest, Jeopardy, has suggested a righteous black woman to replace him when his contract expires in 2020. What is, I can get with that for $800, Alex! When speaking to TMZ recently, the 76-year-old was asked one, if he planned to re-up his contract in two…
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Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg Getting Blowback for Child Actor in Blackface on New Film Set
What in the entire good God tarnation entire fifth ring of hell was somebody thinking when they put a child in blackface on a recent movie set? TMZ reports that someone on the set of the R-rated film, Good Boys, produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, used makeup to darken up the skin of…
