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Soccer While Black: #GolfCartGail Calls Cops on Father Cheering on Son at Soccer Game
A white woman answered the age-old question “Can I kick it?” with a definitieve “no” when she called her cousins (aka the police) on a father who was cheering on his son during a soccer game. The white woman, who appeared out of nowhere riding a golf cart has been dubbed Golf Cart Gail. Seriously,…
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Education, Not Discrimination: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Asks Florida Schools to End Biased Hair Policies
As children returned to school this fall, new teachers and classmates weren’t the only things that greeted some students. More than one story surfaced of children being turned away, or sent home from school, because of culturally-specific hairstyles like braids or dreadlocks. One such child was six-year-old Clinton Stanley, Jr., whose story went viral when…
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Police Issue Arrest Warrant for White Man Who Brandished Gun at 4 FAMU Students Attempting to Get on Elevator
Tallahassee police have an arrest warrant out for a white man who was caught on camera brandishing his gun during an exchange with four Florida A&M students as he was preventing them from entering an elevator. As BuzzFeed reports, police issued an arrest warrant for Don Crandall Jr. last Friday for “Improper Exhibition of a…
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Black College Students Speak Out About White Man Who Pulled Out a Gun While Stopping Them from Getting In 'His' Elevator
A white man caught on video harassing Florida A&M University students, at one point taking out his firearm, has been fired from his job as a hotel manager. Don Crandall is also being investigated by Tallahassee Police, the Daily Dot reports, for the incident Saturday night, in which he refused to let four FAMU students…
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Donald Trump Does Not Want That Smoke From Andrew Gillum
Admittedly, I do not know much about Andrew Gillum. I know he won the Democratic nomination in Florida’s primary race for governor, beating heavy favorite Gwen Graham. I know he’s the mayor of Tallahassee. I know he graduated from Florida A&M—which is why every FAMU grad I’m Facebook friends with had 22,000 word-long status messages…
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Florida House Republican Candidate Faked College Degree: Report
A candidate vying for a seat in Florida’s House of Representatives has been accused of faking the Bachelor’s degree she claims she earned from Miami University. Although The Root cannot confirm the candidate’s forgery, the accusations come from a somewhat credible source: Miami University. Not that Miami University. The other one. The one that’s not…
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Cops Encouraged Not to Buy Miami Dolphins Tickets Because Police Hate Free-Thinking Black Men
Well, it looks like America is continuing its long-held tradition of being on the wrong side of black protest as South Florida police officers have been encouraged not to buy tickets to Miami Dolphins games after two players kneeled during the national anthem. According to CBS Sports, the Broward County Police Benevolent Association, much like…
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Well This is Awkward: Black GOP Candidate Claims She Can Win Because People Don't Want to Vote for 'Old White Men'
The Republican Party, aka the party of old white men, has a new black firecracker with an interesting platform: Vote for me because people don’t want to vote for old white men! According to The Sun-Sentinel, Carla Spalding, who is Caribbean-American, spoke during an Americans For Trump-Broward meeting in Florida. Nothing says old white men…