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It’s MLK Day Everywhere but Virginia. They’re Doing a Gun Rally Complete With Neo-Nazis Instead
This Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s a day of remembrance when we honor one of the most renowned civil rights leaders in U.S. history. A man who certainly stood for peace, but, most of all, equality and justice. A man who is often made out to be synonymous with non-violent protest. In…
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Guess Who’s Black: Accused Racist Miami Police Captain Javier Ortiz Reveals ‘I’m A Black Male’ During City Hall Meeting
Move over Rachel Dolezal. There’s another white person now publicly identifying as being black. This time, however, the person of interest hasn’t stood up for black causes or specialized in black hairstyling techniques. It’s a Miami police captain named Javier Ortiz, an accused racist. During an uproarious meeting at the Miami City Hall in Coconut…
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If the National Archives Blurs Anti-Trump Speech From Its Exhibits, Is It Really an Archive?
There’s a large 49-by-69-inch photograph in the National Archives Museum in Washington D.C. which celebrates the centennial of women’s suffrage by depicting the massive crowd that filled Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the Women’s March on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Viewed from another angle, it shifts to show a 1913…
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A Pilot and a Racist Trump Supporter All Wrapped in One: #MAGA Pilot Arrested for Racist Airport Graffiti
I mean…not that we needed yet another story tying Trump support to good-old-fashioned American racism, but we got one via a 53-year-old pilot for Endeavor Air, a regional subsidiary of Delta, in today’s “Yep, Water is Still Wet as Hell” news. James E. Dees, whose name was probably not intentionally made to sound eerily similar…
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Doris ‘Dorie’ Miller to be Honored by Navy With Aircraft Carrier in His Name
Black History Month is kicking off early this year as one of our lesser mentioned black American heroes gets honored by the U.S. Navy. World War II hero and Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller will have a new aircraft carrier named for him according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. The announcement is expected to be…
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Three White Supremacists Arrested Before Gun Rights Rally in Virginia
There are fears that an upcoming “gun rights” rally this Monday in Virginia has the potential to become the next Charlottesville. Unfortunately, those fears may be come to fruition. NBC News reports that three men who are a part of the white supremacist group The Base were arrested en route to the rally. It should…
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A New Poll Highlights Black Americans' Growing Pessimism of Both Trump and the Country
To be black in America is to exist in a state of perpetual exhaustion and mild paranoia. If you thought you were alone in feeling that the current presidency has exacerbated that exhaustion, you are very much not. The Washington Post published a poll on Friday that surveyed black Americans. It showed that 65 percent…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Fresh Prince of Mailbags
Now this is a story all about howEvery Friday, I turn white smiles upside downI’d like to take a second…Maybe a minute or twoto tell you how I became a racist at a site called The Root. In Black America, I was born and raisedPoetry and economics is where I spent most of my daysBut…
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‘We Are Not Welcome’: In What Should Come as a Surprise to No One, Virginia School Board Refuses to Ban Confederate Flag From Its Dress Code
Virginia’s longstanding love affair with the Confederate flag knows no bounds. And in what should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, a school board in Rocky Mount has ruled that yes, the rebel flag will still be welcomed with open arms in the district’s updated dress code. WRCB has the scoop: The Franklin…
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Howard University Receives $2.5 Million African-American Art Collection in Honor of Former Professor
Ronald W. Walters is remembered as a prolific, award-winning author and activist who published over 100 books and academic articles dissecting race and society in America. But to the students and faculty at Howard University, he’s revered for the decades he served as both a professor and chair in the school’s Department of Political Science.…