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Illinois Cop Who Blew the Whistle on Eric Lurry's Death in Police Custody Stripped of Police Powers
As protests against police brutality began take hold across the country, calls to abolish the police have grown louder and louder. This is partially attributed to the fact that the police themselves don’t seem interested in meaningful reform or calling out the rot in their own organization. When an officer does speak out against wrongdoing,…
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Jackson City Council Votes to Remove Andrew Jackson Monument From City Hall and Put It Somewhere…Less Racist?
The movement to remove all monuments celebrating slavers, colonizers and oppressors continues in Jackson, Ms.—only, not quite. The city of Jackson isn’t doing away with its statue of 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson (who the city is named for) altogether, it’s just moving the monument to racism from its prominent downtown area to somewhere where…
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Christian Cooper Says He Will Not Participate in Prosecution of the White Woman Who Threatened to Call 911 on Him
Earlier this week, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said his office had filed charges against Amy Cooper, a white woman who went viral earlier this summer when she frantically threatened to call the cops on a Black bird watcher. She’s been charged with filing a false police report, a class “A” misdemeanor.” But the man…
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San Francisco Official Introduces ‘Caren Act’ Aimed at Holding Racists Accountable for False 911 Calls
I wonder if when Black people came up with the name “Karen” as a moniker for entitled white women who ask to speak to the manager over the smallest inconveniences and call the police on Black people they consider a nuisance, we could have predicted that the term would catch on so universally. Just kidding,…
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Tyler Perry Is Paying for Funeral of 8-Year-Old Secoriea Turner, Asks 'When Does This End?'
Tyler Perry is paying for the funeral of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, a little girl who was shot and killed in Atlanta on July 4, not far from the location where Rayshard Brooks was killed weeks ago. According to CNN, Turner and her mother were riding in their family car when “a group of individuals illegally…
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White Couple Who Defaced Black Lives Matter Mural in California Charged With Hate Crime
2020 be like: “Hello, white people. Since I’ve introduced the world to the pandemic that just won’t quit, I have to do some good too. So I’d like to introduce you to the consequences of your own actions.” The revolution against Karens is most certainly being televised because, frankly, that’s the only way they can…
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Because of COVID-19, I Haven't Hugged My Daughter in Months
I haven’t hugged my daughter in months. Before COVID-19 hit (well, impacted the way we live our lives), my family was impacted by health concerns. In what should have been my daughter’s last semester of 5th grade, and before she made the transition to being a middle schooler, her year was cut short over a…
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Virginia Schools Are Changing Their Confederate Names Because Honoring Slavery Is No Way to Teach History
White people want to have it both ways. They want so badly for Black people to understand that “the past is the past” and that “slavery is over,” but they also want desperately to cling to every monument and flag that celebrates institutions of oppression. They also apparently enjoy having things named for leaders of…
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Seattle Detective Placed on Leave for Posting 'All Lives Splatter' After Activists Hit by Car
Members of law enforcement making vile and racist comments on Facebook is nothing new. As protests against police brutality continue around the country, the comments have seemingly increased in their lack of empathy. A detective in Seattle, Wash., has been placed on leave for posting an “All Lives Splatter” meme after a group of Black…
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Employees at a Georgia Jimmy John's Fired After Making a Noose Out of Dough
White people must really like being unemployed. It’s the only way to explain why they keep doing blatantly awful things, which will inevitably lead to them losing their job. Take the four employees at a Georgia Jimmy John’s sandwich shop who thought filming themselves making a noose out of dough was the move. According to…