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White Hampton Inn Employee Fired After Calling Police on Black Guests Who Were Using the Swimming Pool
Wait…is this a rerun? Haven’t we seen this episode of White People Who Don’t Believe Black People Belong Literally Anywhere before? Oh nah, sorry, this is a different one than the one before and the one before that and the one before that. It’s hard to keep up. This show is stupid, anyway. In this…
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Black Mayor of Kansas City, Mo., Threatened With Lynching After Mandating Masks
If you were still skeptical that much of America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic—namely, people posturing against a disease, taking up AR-15’s in defense of the right to get haircuts, and angrily dismissing commonsense advice to wear masks—has more than a tinge of racism embedded in it, this news may or may not convince you.…
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Louisville City Council Will Probe How Mayor Greg Fischer’s Office Handled the Fatal Shooting of Breonna Taylor
Louisville Metro Council announced Monday that it will launch an investigation into how Mayor Greg Fischer handled the deadly police shooting of Breonna Taylor in March. The 26-year-old emergency medical technician was shot eight times in her home this spring in a botched drug raid conducted by Louisville Metro police officers. So far, no charges…
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Aurora, Colo., Officers Under Investigation for Allegedly Appearing in Photos Mocking Elijah McClain’s Death at His Memorial
Several Aurora, Colo., police officers have been put on administrative leave and are being investigated after showing up in disturbing photos at a memorial for Elijah McClain, who died after an altercation with police in 2019. The memorial was held near the site of McClain’s detainment by police officers, which led to his death. According…
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Mayor Resigns for His Facebook Comments About Alabama Football's Black Lives Matter Video
I’m honestly starting to think Facebook won’t crack down on racists because they’re the company’s target demographic. Seriously, how many stories have you read about a mayor/police officer/random white guy who works at the post office losing his job because of something racist posted on Facebook? Mark Chambers, a mayor of a small town in…
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In the Past Decade, at Least 70 People Have Died in Police Custody After Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Report
The deaths of Eric Garner and George Floyd have turned the words “I can’t breathe” into an infamous phrase inextricably linked to the issue of excessive force used by police on Black citizens. Both Garner’s and Floyd’s altercations with police were recorded and posted on social media for the world to view, but one question…
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After Years of Student Protests, Princeton Strikes the Name of Segregationist President Woodrow Wilson From Its Buildings
Princeton announced Saturday that it was striking the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from its public and international affairs school as well as a residential building, citing his “racist thinking and policies” during his time in office, as well as his tenure as president of the famed Ivy League school. The decision came…
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Twitch Joins Reddit in Cracking Down on Hate Speech, Forums Related to Trump
Social media companies have consistently been under fire over the past three years for allowing President Donald Trump and his supporters to use their platform to promote hate speech, even though hate speech supposedly violates their terms of service. Now, both Reddit and Twitch have begun to crack down on hateful content spread by the…
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Police SUV Seen Driving Into Crowd of Protestors in Detroit
The last month has seen prolonged, mostly peaceful protests against police brutality and systemic racism. Naturally, the police response has been engaging in the very same brutality that people are protesting. Such was the case during a Sunday night protest in Detroit when a police officer drove an SUV through a crowd of protesters. The…
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White Woman Repeatedly Calls New Neighbors N-Word During Noise Complaint
What do you call a Karen who’s so racist she can’t even argue with other white people without using anti-Black racial slurs? A white woman in Adrian, Mich., was filmed dropping the n-bomb several times while shouting at her new neighbors for being noisy. In the video posted to Twitter on Saturday by Bailey Jenkins,…