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Alt-Right Group Plans on Unleashing Racist ‘Fake Black Person’ Accounts After Being Banned From Twitter
Guess what? The racists are vowing to fight back … with more racism! The Daily Stormer, an alt-right website that regularly features racist and anti-Semitic content, claims that it has nearly 1,000 “fake black person” Twitter accounts that it plans to use in an upcoming “real life” (as opposed to online) harassment campaign, reports Engadget.…
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Houston Anchor Fired for Blaming Obama for Violence, Racism
A Houston news anchor was summarily dismissed for a Facebook post blaming President Barack Obama for racism, and—surprise!—praising Donald Trump. The Daily News reports that Scarlett Fakhar, 25, said she was fired Thursday from KRIV Fox 26 for expressing her “conservative views” on the social media platform. In what has to be the ironic statement…
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Ariz. Grandmother Texts Wrong Teen About Thanksgiving Dinner, Tells Him to Come Anyway
America needed a lighthearted story like this for the holidays to show us that there is still good in the world! A grandmother by the name of Wanda texted 17-year-old Jamal Hinton of Chandler, Ariz., by accident in a group text Tuesday talking about Thanksgiving-dinner plans, according to the Huffington Post. Jamal responded to the…
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Fla. Man Claims He Received Bad Service at Starbucks Because He Voted for Trump
David Sanguesa, 53, accused a Starbucks barista of purposely not serving him because he voted for Donald Trump and is white, the New York Daily News reports. In a video posted to Twitter, Sanguesa can be seen pacing the Starbucks back and forth because the black female barista was not getting his drink fast enough. “Just…
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Do Freedmen’s Bureau Records Show the Marriage of My Kin?
Many years ago, I located my maternal great-great-grandparents, Lucy Hoffman and Ben Hoffman, in census records for Mount Sterling, Ky. They are both listed in the 1870 census, with Lucy listed as being born circa 1803 in Georgia and Ben being born circa 1815 in Virginia. In the 1880 Mount Sterling census, only my great-great-grandmother…
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Wannabe Islamic State Fighters Sentenced to Prison
Guled Omar, 22, described as a leader of a group of nine who plotted to fight for the Islamic State group, or ISIS, was sentenced to 35 years in prison by a federal judge on Wednesday, CBS News reports. Omar, of Minnesota, was one of nine defendants found guilty of a plot involving travel to Syria…
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Photos Surface of Ark. School Board Member Wearing Blackface
Ted Bonner, a Blevins (Ark.) School Board member, painted his face black, distressed his teeth and, while carrying a sign that read, “Blak [sic] Lives Matters,” apparently wore the costume to a Halloween party in October, Raw Story reports. Photos of him wearing the costume circulated around social media, and Bonner apologized for them Monday…
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La. Mother Arrested After Son, 2, Shoots Daughter, 1
Crystal Kinchen, 23, was arrested and charged with second-degree cruelty to a juvenile after, police say, her 2-year-old son accidentally shot his 1-year-old sister in a car in Baton Rouge, La., CBS News reports. The incident happened when Kinchen and her children were in a parked car at a strip mall Tuesday night. Kinchen was…
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Youngest Son of Mich. Rep. John Conyers Goes Missing
Carl Conyers, 21, was last seen Tuesday afternoon by his roommate at the University of Houston, according to the New York Daily News. Conyers is the youngest son of Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), 87, who represents Michigan’s 13th Congressional District. The younger Conyers apparently sent his girlfriend and several friends a message on Twitter on Wednesday…
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What Pain Has to Teach in the Advent of a Trump Presidency
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.” —Audre Lorde I’ll never forget Valentine’s Day my sophomore year in high school. My social status had been uplifted from chubby black kid to chubby black kid who does sports. And with my freshly…
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