alabama
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Watch: Rep. Juandalynn Givan Is My Adopted Auntie and the Clapback Hero Black America Needs
Despite what you may believe, trust me, you have never truly seen a black person let go. Sometimes, when we are beset on all sides by whiteness, drowning in the filthy American cesspool contaminated by lynching blood, face spit and white tears, all a black person can do is hold on. Hold on. The way…
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Video: Anti-Black, Pro-Holocaust Rant by Alabama Teens Might Secure Award for Most Racist High School in America
Students who attend a high school where a teacher recently admitted to using the n-word and parents said of black football players: “Their kind doesn’t belong on the field,” appears to have continued the community’s longstanding tradition by filming a video featuring pro-Holocaust white kids spewing racist slurs against blacks, Jews, mixed-race students and—worst of…
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Fat Tuesday in Mobile: Like Regular Mardi Gras … But Blacker
The citizens of Mobile, Ala., know it’s the birthplace of Mardi Gras in America. If the subject of New Orleans comes up, they might mention the Big Easy’s Fat Tuesday party. Anyone who has attended the twin bacchanalian Fat Tuesday celebrations in New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., will testify that the real Mardi Gras takes…
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Does a New Supreme Court Ruling Mean Police Can No Longer Use Asset Forfeiture to Enrich Their Departments?
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution limits the ability of state and local police to seize and keep cash, property, and other assets that may have been used to commit crimes, particularly when it’s used to enrich police departments. Written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her first day back at…
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Man Goes on White Supremacist Rant, Flashes Gun. Police Say It’s Just ‘Free Speech’
Seemingly desperate to prove he was from the state that refers to itself as the “Heart of Dixie,” an Alabama man went all Alabama in an Alabama coffee shop by going on a racist rant that left the business’ white customers disturbed and reminded the black customers that they were actually in Alabama. According to…
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Alabama Newspaper Publisher Calls for KKK to 'Night Ride Again' and 'Clean Out' D.C.—with Nooses in Tow
In what continues to be a truly wild February for the books, the publisher of a small-town Alabama paper published an op-ed calling for the Klu Klux Klan to clean out Washington, D.C.—nooses preferred. The Valentine’s Day op-ed (after all, what better way to express your love of democracy by inciting the optics of a…
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American Justice: Abuse Domineque Ray as a Boy, Discriminate Against Him as a Man, and on Death Row, Kill Him
Domineque Ray was born in a country that is proud of its stated principles, which supposedly include justice for all. For Ray, justice in America meant enduring sexual and other forms of physical abuse throughout his childhood, so much so that he was ashamed to even admit it to save his own life. Propublica summed…
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Former Alabama State University Stingettes Challenge the Odds to Instill Confidence in the Community
Former members of Alabama State University’s Stingettes dance team are using their talents to instill confidence and mold the future—one eight count at a time. The Stingettes are a part of the school’s Mighty Marching Hornets band and have been entertaining Montgomery, Alabama since 1977. These dancers have been known to snatch edges and annihilate the…
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Alabama Public Defender Accused of Creating ‘Law & Order: Special Racist Unit’
The man in charge of defending indigent citizens in the criminal justice system of one of America’s blackest cities has been accused of filling his office with racists who toss around the n-word like it’s 1799…or 1899…or, well, it’s Alabama, so 1999, too. David Luker was appointed as the Jefferson County Public Defender in 2016,…