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  • Veteran TV Reporter Confronts Man Who Called Him the N-Word

    A Virginia man was arrested, charged with harassing a veteran Charlotte, N.C., TV reporter during a confrontation in Charleston, S.C., the Charlotte Observer reports. Brian Eybers, 21, is being held in the Charleston County Detention Center and is due in court Friday on charges of disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia in the form of a…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • University of Va. Lecturer Takes Leave After Comparing Black Lives Matter to KKK

    A University of Virginia adjunct professor is facing backlash after comparing Black Lives Matter to the horrific racism and terror of the Ku Klux Klan, the Washington Post reports. Douglas Muir, who lectures at the university’s engineering and business schools, wrote a Facebook comment that Black Lives Matter is the “biggest” racist organization since the…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • University of Oregon to Rename Building Named for KKK Leader 

    As has been the case at Georgetown, Yale and Vanderbilt, the University of Oregon has rebranded a dorm named after a man whose life was anti-black. In the case of Oregon, it was a Ku Klux Klan leader. After a unanimous board vote on Thursday, university President Michael Schill announced that having a building named after classics…

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    The Root Staff

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  • 'No, You’re a Racist Bigot!': Clinton and Trump's Insulting Race War Is Ridiculous 

    The 2016 election cycle always promised to have more questions than answers. Would expectations be higher or lower for the nation’s 44th white commander in chief than they were for President Barack Obama? What would black voters demand—or settle for—as revolutionary fire continued to burn through the streets? Would Ben Carson ever admit that he resides somewhere over…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • 16th Street Baptist Church Bomber Is Denied Parole

    Thomas Blanton Jr., 86, the last living convicted bomber in the 1963 attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., asked for his freedom from a parole board Wednesday and was denied, CNN reports. Blanton was a member of the Ku Klux Klan when the church was bombed on Sept. 15, 1963. The tragedy, which…

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    The Root Staff

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  • David Duke, Former KKK Grand Wizard, Contemplating Run for Congress in Aftermath of Dallas Shooting 

    So … David Duke is considering a run for Congress. According to the Daily Beast, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is seriously considering challenging House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) in the upcoming congressional election. “I’ve very seriously set up an exploratory committee to run for the United States Congress against…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Mississippi Burning Case Closed After 52 Years

    Mississippi officials have decided to close the investigation into the killings of three young civil rights organizers by the Ku Klux Klan, more than five decades after the young men disappeared, NPR reports. According to the report, the case had been closed for decades but was later reopened after public outcry. Now officials have decided that…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • The White Person's Guide To Surviving A Terrorist Attack

    My Dear Caucasian Brethren, I want to first thank you for allowing me to speak to the Global Society for the Advancement of White People for the third time. It is indeed an honor and a privilege to stand before such luminaries as Hillary Clinton, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and the entire cast of Exodus:…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Yeah, Let's Chill With The "KKK Clashes With The Black Panthers" Headlines And Story Angles

    (Quick thoughts about this weekend’s rallies in South Carolina to protest the removal of the Confederate flag) 1. I mean, I get it. The Ku Klux Klan was present at this rally. As were some Black pride groups, including those affiliated with the Black Panthers. And, I would assume that if a KKK member and a Black…

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    Damon Young

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