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Facebook Employees Stage Walkout Over Trump’s ‘When the Looting Starts, the Shooting Starts’ Post
Dozens of Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout on Monday to send a message to CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as y’all’s president that they are not OK with giving the latter a platform to threaten or incite violence against protestors. Many of you have seen the message President Donald Trump posted to Twitter and Facebook…
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‘The Use of Force is Never Acceptable’: 2 Atlanta Cops Fired After Tasing HBCU Students During Protest
At a time when volatile and emotional protests are popping up all over the country behind a black man dying due to what is widely seen as excessive use of police force, you would think that cops at these protests would exercise caution regarding their own uses of force on black demonstrators. Yet, several documented…
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Black Man Fatally Shot by White Bar Owner During Omaha Fed-Uprising
As the death of George Floyd continues to inspire both peaceful and not-so-peaceful protests all over the country, a Saturday demonstration in Omaha, Neb., resulted in the death of another black man after he was allegedly shot by a white bar owner. KETV-7 reports that 22-year-old James Scurlock died Saturday night after police heard gunshots…
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MIT Elects Its 1st Black Woman Student Body President in the School’s 159-Year History
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology just crossed a major diversity milestone by electing its first black woman student body president in the school’s 159-year history. Earlier this month, MIT’s Undergraduate Association announced sophomore mechanical engineering major Danielle Geathers as the winner of the institute’s “first contested UA presidential election since 2017,” according to the school’s…
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Jerry Falwell Jr. Reveals Blackface Mask Mocking Virginia’s Face Mask Requirement
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. is an entire moron. The man who has appeared to be opposed to social distancing guidelines and public health measures since the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic thought it was a good idea to express his opposition to Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s order requiring Virginia citizens to wear…
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Minneapolis Man Loses His Lease After Going Full Karen on Black Tenants Using Office Gym
At this point, white people just really need to learn how to read the room. Just one day after Amy “Central Park Karen” Cooper became internet-infamous for calling the police on a black man after he asked her to leash her dog—a thing that resulted in her losing her job, her dog and her welcome…
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West Virginia Mail Carrier Charged With Election Fraud for Altering Absentee Ballot Applications
Many conservatives—including y’all’s president—have had a lot to say about mail-in voting and the potential it has to cause voter fraud. Of course, there’s not much evidence supporting the idea that absentee ballots will result in fraud on the part of voters, but in West Virginia, one case of election tampering happened before voters even…
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Here We Go Again: Video Shows Michigan Cop Repeatedly Punching Black Woman in the Head
It seems like we can’t go more than a week or so without a new video popping up in our news feeds showing police officers using excessive force on black citizens. The latest instance of this comes out of Michigan where a Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Deputy was reportedly caught on camera punching a black woman…
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New York Lawmakers Propose Hate Crime Legislation in Response to Viral ‘Central Park Karen’ Video
Amy Cooper made herself famous for all the wrong reasons when she called the police to report “an African-American man threatening my life.” Video recorded by Christian Cooper, an African-American man (of no relation), shows he was actually only trying to get her to follow the rules and put a leash on her dog. Now,…
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Florida Woman Arrested for Drowning Her Autistic Son After Telling Police Two Black Men Abducted Him
A Miami woman recently joined the long list of white people who blame non-existent black people for crimes they themselves committed when she was arrested in the drowning death of her son. This, after she initially told police he was abducted by two black men who were seeking drugs. The Associated Press reports that 45-year-old…
