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Calif. Students Described as Future ‘Trash Collators’ in School Yearbook Say It Was Racist
Seniors at Berkeley High School in California were shocked and insulted when they got their yearbooks and saw that students in the AMPS program—the Academy of Medicine and Public Service—were described as future “trash collators.” The word “innovators” had been replaced, NBC Bay Area reports. Robael Gizachew, a senior at the school, said he definitely thinks…
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The ‘Pool-Party Cop’ Was Sued in 2008 for Racial Profiling and Using Excessive Force
This isn’t David Eric Casebolt’s first rodeo with regard to accusations of harboring racial biases and exerting excessive force with African Americans. Casebolt—the McKinney, Texas, police corporal who was initially suspended, and then resigned, after a video went viral showing him violently shoving a teenage girl to the ground after a pool party—was sued back in…
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Dating a Mentor Who’s in a Relationship Will Only Bring Double the Trouble
I’m a 30-year-old female, and I have a male mentor who is in his mid-50s. He has been instrumental in helping me navigate through my professional life. We have great conversations. I feel there is a connection. I’m not sure if he feels the same. We talk about both personal and professional things, we’ve hung…
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We Must Make Police Brutality Against Black Women an Issue in 2016
Criminal-justice reform must be an election issue for black women in 2016. More than any other group of women in the country, black women are killed, raped and victimized by intimate-partner and community violence. While they are the least protected, as the current McKinney, Texas, episode shows, black women and girls are also beaten, racially profiled and assaulted by police.…
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She Spends, He Saves: Get Help Before It’s Too Late
Harriette Cole is the author of the book of meditations 108 Stitches: Words We Live By and a contributing editor at The Root. Follow her on Twitter.
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Coming to America: A West Indian’s Guide
I moved from Trinidad and Tobago to New York City in the summer of 2013. When I settled into my new environment, I quickly learned it was nothing like I had imagined. Thankfully, I overcame the worst of the culture shock and found my footing. Here are a few tips I can share from my…
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It’s Time the Feds Start Tracking Police Violence
As of this writing, almost 500 people—138 of them African American—have been shot and killed by police in the United States this year. These numbers come from The Guardian’s investigation that is literally counting the dead. Outrage against the epidemic of police killings of unarmed black men helped spark a national #BlackLivesMatter protest movement that…
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Texas Teen Slammed by Cop Speaks Out: ‘The Officer Getting Fired Is Not Enough’
Dajerria Becton, the 15-year-old McKinney, Texas, teenager who was slammed to the ground by a police officer while attending a pool party, is speaking out about the horrifying ordeal, describing how she wants the officer’s punishment to be severe, Fox 4 News reports. “He grabbed me, twisted my arm on my back and shoved me in the…
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NYC Teen Whose McDonald’s Beating Went Viral Is Arrested, Found With 2 Guns: Report
Elizabeth Ballinger, the 17-year-old who was viciously jumped by at least four other girls inside a Brooklyn, N.Y., McDonald’s in May, was arrested Saturday, accused of carrying two guns, the Nw York Daily News reports. The May assault—in which Ballinger was repeatedly pummeled, punched and kicked by her attackers while a crowd of several dozen…
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NY Woman Fights Off Man Who Tries to Rape Her
A 25-year-old woman fought off a man who followed her into her New York City apartment early Saturday morning and tried to rape her, the New York Daily News reports. The man made it into the foyer of the woman’s apartment and tried to sexually assault her, but she resisted, authorities say. Video surveillance captured…
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