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Duke University to Rename Iconic Building After One of the 1st Black Women to Attend the School
Duke University has announced it will rename one of its west campus buildings after one of the first Black women to become an undergraduate at the university. According to WTVD, the university’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Saturday to change the name of the Sociology-Psychology Building to the Reuben-Cooke Building, after Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke. Reuben-Cooke…
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Georgia Correctional Officer Fired for the 3rd Time After Calling Inmate Racial Slur
A corrections officer in Georgia has lost his job after calling an inmate a “crazy N-word,” proving yet again that white folks love racism just a little bit more than money. AJC reports that Officer Gregory Hubert Brown has been placed on administrative leave without pay, and. Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill said in a…
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Texas Sheriff Charged With Evidence Tampering in Connection With the Police Custody Death of Javier Ambler
In June, The Root reported that 40-year-old Black man Javier Ambler died in police custody in Austin, Texas, in 2019. After several months of slow news coverage relating to Ambler’s death and failed attempts by media outlets to pry information out of the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office pertaining to the case, the department released documents…
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Attorney Claims Kenosha Police Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Was Trying to Prevent a Kidnapping
An attorney for the Kenosha, Wisc., police officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back on Aug. 23 is now claiming that his client shot Blake because he believed the 29-year-old was attempting a kidnapping at the time of the confrontation that led to weeks of protests against police violence. In a recent…
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A List of Broke-Ass Shit Still Less Broke Than Y'all's Broke-Ass President
1. Lonzo Ball’s jump shot 2. The Pittsburgh Public School System 3. The Kardashians, if they lived in a world where spicy-ish white girls weren’t catnip to thirsty niggas 4. Me, at 26 5. Actually, me until like 17 minutes ago 6. The clippers that Rajon Rondo’s bubble barber must’ve used 7. The Barksdale family…
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Mississippi Gives Voters a Chance to End Racist Election Policy That Keeps Black Candidates From Winning Races
The state of Mississippi is close to 40 percent Black, making it the state with the second-largest proportional Black population in the U.S. Yet somehow, no Black person has ever been elected governor or to any other statewide political office in the state’s history. Mississippi voters are now being given the chance to do away…
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Ballistics Report Seems to Contradict Kentucky AG’s Claim That Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Shot, Injured LMPD Officer
On March 13, 32 bullets tore through Breonna Taylor’s apartment. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Louisville Metro Police claimed Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker fired first, and that he injured one officer in the leg with that shot. That first shot is a significant one: because of it, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said…
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Witness Who Backed Louisville Police's Testimony First Had a Different Story, and More Troubling Aspects of the Breonna Taylor Investigation Daniel Cameron Didn't Mention
The defensive posturing and show of force that the Louisville Metro Police Department came out with this week in anticipation of the grand jury verdict regarding the culpability of its police in the killing of Breonna Taylor, may have indicated a recognition in them that the officially reported investigation into the incident is shady and…