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Design Unveiled for Proposed Memorial at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, Site of Horrific Charleston, S.C. Shooting
Before white supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed nine parishioners in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the church was known foremost as being the oldest AME church in the South. Now, three years after the deadly shooting, the church plans to construct a memorial dedicated to the nine victims and five survivors of…
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South Carolina, Home of the Racist: White Supremacist Sentenced to Less Than 3 Years for Dylann-Roof Inspired Attack
White supremacist Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, 31, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison after he admitted to wanting to commit a “fucking big-scale” attack “in the spirit of Dylann Roof.” In March, he pleaded guilty to a single count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition as…
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How the Pulitzer Board Chose Kendrick Lamar
First Hip-Hop Artist Picked Over Classical, Jazz Acts . . . ‘As a Black Woman,’ Figuring Out Dylann Roof” Lisa Wilson on Ladder to Lead Sports Editors Group Getty, Ava DuVernay Team to Aid Visual Journalists Nominate a J-Educator Who Promotes Diversity The most surprising Pulitzer Prize Monday came at the very end: The last…
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‘I Hope It’s a Trap and Y’all Get Shot’: Sister of White Supremacist Dylann Roof Sends Hostile Snapchat, Is Arrested on Charges Over Weapons, Drugs on School Grounds
Well, it certainly looks as if the same rotten tree produced the same rotten fruit. And as it turns out, while some students were marching for their lives on National Walkout Day to protest gun violence, Morgan Roof, the sister of white supremacist and mass murderer Dylann Roof, was on social media expressing her disgust.…
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South Carolina Lawmakers Want to Ban Baggy Pants Because What Other Political Issue Could Possibly Be More Pressing?
While the rest of the country clamors for gun control, South Carolina lawmakers have chosen to home in on the real issues, like banning baggy pants. According to WLTX 19, House Bill 4957 would make it illegal “for a person to expose their skin or underwear by wearing their pants ‘three inches below the crest…
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Only White People Are ‘Wolves’: New Report Highlights How Cable-News Media Portrays Mass Killers
As mass shootings become mind-numbingly common in the U.S., clear patterns have emerged in the way the media covers the perpetrators of these violent acts. Not only do shooters command more attention than the lives they’ve taken, but there are clear racial disparities in the way the media—particularly cable news—portrays them. The contrast between the…
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Ann Arbor, Mich., Police Searching for Racist Thugs Who Tagged Alley Wall With ‘Free Dylann Roof’ Graffiti
Do you know these racist thugs? Ann Arbor, Mich., police are requesting the public’s help in identifying and bringing three white young men morons to justice after they were caught on surveillance footage painting the racist graffiti on a wall in an alley. The wall, which is located in Ant Alley just off the University…
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Dylann Roof Wants to Fire His Jewish, Indian Lawyers: ‘My Political and Biological Enemies’
Updated Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, 2:51 p.m. EDT: How long did it take the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to deny Dylann Roof’s motion to replace his lawyers on account of their ethnic backgrounds? Less than 24 hours, and with just 11 words. ABC News reports that federal judges didn’t even bother to provide…
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Vanilla ISIS: The Quiet Radicalization of America’s New al-Qaida
terrorism (n): the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. In an effort to battle terrorism, Twitter maintains a team dedicated to fighting groups that advocate extremism. Since 2015, Twitter has banned more than 125,000 accounts linked to ISIS, or the Islamic State group, The Guardian reports. Both…
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Dylann Roof Pleads Guilty to State Murder Charges
White supremacist Dylann Roof has pleaded guilty to state murder charges in the Charleston, S.C., church massacre of nine black worshippers; in doing so, he is forgoing a second death-penalty trial. As the Associated Press notes, the move now leaves Roof awaiting execution in federal prison and also spares his surviving victims and the families…