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Candace Owens Snubbed by RNC Because She Has a Crush on Obama or Something Like That
Many of you have heard by now that the shuck and jive trap-queen, the patron saint of evangelical edgelessness, Tomi Lahren the tragic negro remix, the new iPhone version of Stacey Dash, conservative’s favorite Black friend, Candace Owens was not invited to speak at the Republican National Convention. The Root was going to reach out…
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‘I’m With Joe’: Punch-a-Nazi Poster Child Richard Spencer Tweets His Endorsement of Joe Biden
2020 is officially M. Night Shyamalan’s worst movie. I mean, I thought this shitshow had already jumped the shark when the mistresses of minstrel, Diamond and Silk, decided they were ready to talk about systemic racism, but this infamous year has apparently decided to pull an Evel Knievel over a mile-long row of sharks as the…
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Portland 'Back the Blue' Rally Erupts in Violence. Police Stand and Watch Because Fights Involved 'Willing Participants'
Civil unrest continued in Portland on Saturday as a “Back the Blue” rally turned into a violent clash between white nationalists and anti-racism protesters—all while police officers stood back and watched the show. From the Washington Post: On Saturday afternoon, a large crowd of more than 100 far-right activists, including Proud Boys and armed militia…
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Wisconsin Officers Shoot Black Man Multiple Times in the Back; Curfew Imposed as Police Clash With Protesters
Protests broke out across Kenosha, Wis., Sunday night after police officers shot a Black man at least seven times in the back earlier that evening. Though the man, identified by Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers as Jacob Blake, survived the shooting, he remained in serious condition as of Monday morning. The confrontation began around 5 p.m.…
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Organizers Behind BreonnaCon Respond to Online Criticism, Say Breonna Taylor's Family Was Integral to Its Creation
As Until Freedom’s BreonnaCon began underway in Louisville yesterday, so did the chatter on social media about the appropriateness of the event—and more specifically the use of the deceased 26-year-old’s name as a portmanteau to promote planned activities “Bre-B-Q.” Much of the outrage also centered on promotional flyers for the event which showed Breonna’s faded…
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Tennessee Passes Law That Would Punish Protestors By Taking Away Their Right to Vote
Republican lawmakers and a Republican governor have green-lit a new law in Tennessee that makes it possible for people to have their voting rights revoked as punishment for participating in protests. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the measure into law last week after a special three-day legislative session, reports AP. Under the new law, demonstrators…
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Trump Bragged About Low Black Voter Turnout, Disparaged John Lewis in Meeting With Black 'Leaders' in 2017
New details have emerged from a meeting of so-called leaders in the Black community and then President-elect Donald Trump ahead of his inauguration on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2017. Audio obtained by The Independent reveals that during the meeting —which was attended by Martin Luther King III, son of the civil rights icon—Trump made…
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New York Civil Liberties Union Releases More Than 323,000 Allegations of Misconduct Filed Against the NYPD
Not everything about 2020 has been bad. The pandemic has been disastrous for the year’s reputation, but good things are happening right now as well. The worldwide explosion of the Black Lives Matter movement has brought to the mainstream a much-needed conversation about systemic racism in policing (and in general), and the airing out of…
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Missouri Newspaper Criticized for Racist Martin Luther King Jr. 'I Have a Dream' Caricature Cartoon
White people (and non-Black people of color for that matter) would do well to just keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s name out of their mouths. This goes especially for conservatives who only seem to know one excerpt of one speech from one civil rights leader and so they invoke their version of MLK every time…