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Ohio Firefighter Fired After Sharing Racist McDonald’s Meme on Facebook: Report
A Springfield, Ohio, firefighter won’t be putting out any fires anytime soon, after being fired for sharing a racist meme on Facebook, authorities say. According to the Springfield News Sun, Bradley Baugh, who was hired less than two months ago, shared a meme that used a racial slur directed toward black people and mocked fast-food…
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Family of 10-Year-Old Bullying Victim Ashawnty Davis Uses GoFundMe to Raise Money for Burial Expenses
Three weeks ago, 10-year-old Ashawnty Davis of Colorado killed herself after being a victim of bullying. And now the family is asking for the public’s help to raise money for her burial expenses. Ashawnty, a fifth-grader at Sunrise Elementary School in Aurora, Colo., got into a fight away from school grounds, and it was uploaded…
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Conservatives Want to #BoycottSanFrancisco After Undocumented Immigrant Acquitted in Death of Kate Steinle
No justice, no San Francisco. Those are the sentiments of conservatives after Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty in the death of Kate Steinle, a white woman who was shot and killed in 2015 on a pier in San Francisco, which is a sanctuary city when it comes to undocumented immigrants like Zarate.…
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Jemele Hill on ESPN Suspension: ‘I Put ESPN in a Bad Spot’
Jemele Hill doesn’t have any hard feelings toward ESPN after the company gave her a two-week suspension for violating its social media rules. In an interview with TMZ while walking through Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday, Hill spoke candidly about the suspension over her Jerry Jones tweets. “Me and ESPN are fine. We’re in…
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Are These Some of the White Supremacists Who Assaulted Deandre Harris in Charlottesville, Va.?
Updated Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, 7:12 p.m. EDT: It looks as though the internet has identified one of the assailants involved in the beating of Deandre Harris as Daniel (Dan) Borden from Mason, Ohio. Earlier: When it comes to sleuthing, nothing beats the keen eyes of people on the internet. And after this weekend’s neo-Nazi…
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Does Anyone Care About DC’s Missing Black and Latinx Teens?
Updated Monday, March 13, 2017, 2:04 p.m. EDT: Updated Monday, March 13, 2017 7 a.m. EDT: Earlier: Over the last week, my timeline on Twitter has been inundated with retweets from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., with photos of missing black and Latinx teens. Within the last week, 10 teens have gone missing…
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How the AMERICAN WOMAN Project Aims to Make Black Women the Face of America
When you think of the all-American-girl type of woman, you probably think of a sun-kissed, blond-haired woman, wearing a size 6 dress and either “leaning in” or happily being a doting, work-from-home mom. Sure, some may say there’s nothing wrong with either of these representations, but there are other types of American women who are…
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Mike Epps Accused of Beating Up Fellow Comic Over Jokes
Comedian Mike Epps is reportedly under investigation after physically attacking fellow comic Lavar Walker after Walker’s comedy set in Atlanta. It’s alleged that Walker was attacked by Epps and two other men after Walker’s comedy set at the Uptown Comedy Center on Saturday night. According to TMZ, Walker told cops someone said Epps wanted to…
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Reactions to Kara Walker’s A Subtlety Prove a Black Woman Will Be Sexualized, Even in Art
Kara Walker is a renowned artist who is best-known for using her art to explore gender, race and sexuality. Her current piece is housed in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., at the Domino Sugar Factory. A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby—at 75 feet long, 35 feet high and 26 feet wide, a molasses sphinx…
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Ravens Running Back Ray Rice Apologizes During Press Conference
Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and his wife, Janay Palmer, held a press conference Friday afternoon to speak about their domestic violence incident earlier this year. In February Rice was charged with assault after an incident involving his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer. According to reports, Rice and Palmer were arguing at the Revel Casino…
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