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Texas Senate Approves Voter Suppression Bill That was Negotiated Behind Closed Doors and Pushed 'Earlier Than Usual'
Republicans really are the worst. GOP lawmakers get to be delusional and proceed with legislation that assumes their delusions are real. For example, they propose and sign bills that ban Critical Race Theory from being taught in schools even though they don’t actually know what CRT is, nor do they ever seem to present much…
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Iowa Woman Who Hit Black 12-Year-Old and Latina Teen With Her SUV Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Nicole Poole Franklin, the white supremacist from Des Moines, Iowa, who on Dec. 9, 2019, hit a Black 12-year-old boy with her SUV and, on the same day, ran over a 14-year-old girl and admitted she did it because she thought the girl “was a Mexican,” has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after…
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DOJ Wants Federal Judge to Dismiss Lawsuits Over Trump Forcibly Removing Peaceful Protesters for Bible Photo-Op
So… Do y’all remember the time when ex-y’all’s-president had flash-bang and rubber bullet-wielding police officers forcibly remove peaceful protesters from Wahington D.C.’s Lafayette Square last June so that he could take an awkward photo holding a bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, which never invited his ass there in the first place? You…
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Karen Calls Cops on Michigan Black Woman for Talking Too Loudly, Cops Entertain That White Nonsense by Fining Black Woman
Many racial stereotypes come from a bit of truth. For example, a lot of Black people are loud—which is to say, we tend to have a fair amount of bass in our voices compared to our white counterparts and that shit tends to carry. White stereotypes also often come from truth. For example, white people…
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Tulsa Race Massacre Commemoration Event Canceled Because Reparations Demand for Survivors Was Too High
For Black America, the demand for reparations is always an uphill battle. Even when lawmakers and other elected officials appear to be for reparations, it often seems like they’re only half-in. For example, there’s never any proposed legislation that green lights actual monetary compensation for descendants of slavery; it’s always a commission to examine the…
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NC Amusement Park Employees Walk Out After Accusing Manager of Racism After 'Nappy-Head' and 'Bunch of Monkeys' Comments
More than a dozen North Carolina amusement park employees walked off the job earlier this week after they said their concerns regarding an allegedly racist AF park manager were ignored. Now, park officials are denying that they received the complaints and are criticizing the walkout because—*checks notes*—the park was really busy at the time the…
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Legislation to Ban Black Hair Discrimination in Illinois Schools Passes State House
The state of Illinois is about an inch away from adopting a new law that would prohibit schools from discriminating against Black hair. The bill is currently on its way back to the state Senate so that lawmakers can vote on an amendment to name it for the Black 4-year-old who prompted its proposal after…
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Patrisse Cullors Is Stepping Down From the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation to Focus on New Things
Nearly eight years ago, she co-founded the organization named for arguably the largest modern civil rights movement the nation and world have ever seen. Now, Patrisse Cullors is stepping down from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation to focus on other aspects of the career and platform she has built for herself over the…
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2 Tacoma Police Officers Charged With Murder and a 3rd Charged With Manslaughter in Death of Manuel Ellis
Weeks before George Floyd was murdered by ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, another Black man in Tacoma, Wash., died in police custody shortly after telling the officers who were restraining him, “I can’t breathe.” That man was 33-year-old Manuel Ellis, and on Thursday, two of the police officers involved in his death were charged with…
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Walmart Apologizes for Email Sent Out to Customers That Included the N-Word
I’m starting to think that anonymous racists choose to be anonymous while doing their dirty work because they’re embarrassed by their lack of white supremacist creativity. For example: Apparently, some uninspired bigot in Connecticut has been hanging random nooses around an Amazon construction site—a thing I previously described as “the hate crime equivalent of rearranging…
