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#BlackLivesMatter College Course Aims to Educate People Beyond the Hashtag and Slogan
Most people only know the phrase “Black Lives Matter” as a slogan and a hashtag; they don’t understand the true meaning behind the movement. There are many rumors, misconceptions and misrepresentations of what it is about, but the folks behind a new class at the University of Washington aim to change that. La Tasha Levy…
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Black College Basketball Player Denied Spot on Team Because She Wouldn’t Stand for Racism
Racism on college campuses is nothing new and not at all surprising, but it still brings with it a familiar feeling of disappointment when it interferes with students’ ability to enjoy the college experience and participate in activities they are good at. In the case of one black student from Virginia, racism led to her…
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Kenneth Williams Is 4th Man to Be Executed by the State of Ark. in 7 Days
The state of Arkansas had a plan in place to kill eight men over 10 days, at some points killing two men in one day, in order to beat the clock on an expiring lethal-injection-drug supply. No inmate had been killed in the state for over a decade, and no double execution had been done…
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I, a White, Rode the Train With Blacks 1 Day, and It Was Crazy: An Atlanta-Newspaper Reader Writes on Race
Melton Bennett is a resident of Cumming, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. As a white man living in the metropolitan Atlanta area, Melton had some thoughts to share on the topic of race—specifically the ones he had as he rode the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, or MARTA, train from his mostly white neighborhood in…
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6-Year-Old Creates Coloring Book Series to Teach About Black Indigenous Cultures Around the World
A 6-year-old girl and her mother have created a coloring book that educates young children about black indigenous cultures around the world while exploring the histories of native-born black people in Africa and America. Vanae James-Bey and her mother, Veronica Bey, are originally from Florida but now live in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. They told…
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La. District Attorney’s Office Sends Fake Subpoenas to Coerce Witnesses to Talk in Criminal Cases
Prosecutors in the Office of Orleans Parish (La.) District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro Jr. have been engaging in the unethical and possibly illegal practice of sending fake subpoenas as a means of pressuring witnesses in criminal cases to come speak with them. Tiffany Lacroix received one such notice in November, ordering her to meet with a…
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Aretha Franklin Still Upset With Dionne Warwick Over Something She Said at Whitney Houston’s Funeral
Your Auntie Ree Ree is apparently the champion of petty and the queen of holding a grudge in addition to being the Queen of Soul, because she lashed out at Dionne Warwick on Tuesday over something the Psychic Friend said five years ago at Whitney Houston’s funeral. The Associated Press reports that Franklin contacted the…
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Still No Criminal Charges Filed Nearly a Year After Inmate Dies in Sheriff David Clarke’s Jail
Nearly a year after 38-year-old Terrill Thomas spent his last living days begging for water in solitary confinement at the Milwaukee County Jail before being found dead in his cell, no criminal charges have been filed in his death. The medical examiner classified Thomas’ death as a homicide and ruled the cause of death “profound…
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Why Does the Idea of a Confident, Fat Black Woman Make You So Uncomfortable?
I love me. I’m fat. I’m black. I’m beautiful, and I don’t look my age. My hair is nappy and as big as my smile. I’m usually the loudest person in the room, and my laugh ripples through the air like a hypnotic vibration. My breasts take over the entire top half of my frame,…
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Black State Senator Says It’s Time to Call Out the Racism That Is Rampant in Fla. Politics
Earlier this week, Florida state Sen. Frank Artiles made headlines after he referred to six black colleagues as “niggers.” At the same time, reports emerged that a black female state attorney had received a noose in the mail at her office in Orlando, Fla., in response to her refusal to pursue the death penalty in…
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