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Prosecutors Say 20-Year Veteran of NYPD Attacked Cop at Capitol ‘Like a Junkyard Dog,’ Beat Him With Metal Pole
A former officer with the New York Police Department, whose duties once included guarding City Hall and the mayor’s residence, has been charged in what prosecutors describe as a rabid attack on a Capitol officer during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Thomas Webster, a 54-year-old man who spent 20 years with the NYPD before retiring, is…
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Southern Poverty Law Center Estimates 160 Confederate Monuments Were Taken Down in 2020. We Need to Pump Those Numbers Up
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), estimates that approximately 160 Confederate monuments were taken down over the course of 2020. Come y’all, those are rookie numbers, we need to pump those numbers up. The Associate Press reports that the SPLC has released the figures as part of its “Whose Heritage?” database that keeps track of…
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COVID Death Toll in America Tops 500,000, Black Americans and Other Communities of Color Still Have Highest Rates of Loss
On Monday, the U.S. marked nearly a year since the ongoing coronavirus pandemic arrived on our shores by reaching a horrid milestone: 500,000 Americans dead from the virus. According to the New York Times, this surpasses the number of Americans who died in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. President…
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Thinking Creatively: The CFDA Launches the IMPACT Initiative to Build a Pipeline for Black and Brown Talent
Representation matters. We hear it, and we know it to be true; we also know it to be good for business. But if the racial reckoning of this past year has proven anything—beyond a need for the long-overdue overhaul of any number of American institutions and industries—it’s that even the most well-meaning of those institutions…
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Pennsylvania Cop Charged for Participating in Capitol Riot
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: White folks are just different. Private messages show that a Pennsylvania cop was relatively indifferent to the fact that he’s facing federal charges for his role in January’s riot at the Capitol. According to NBC News, federal prosecutors allege that 55-year-old Joseph Fischer, a patrolman in…