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Best Memes, Reactions to the Montgomery Riverboat Brawl
Black people are having a ridiculous amount of fun celebrating the ‘heroes’ of the Montgomery brawl.
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TikToker Receives Racist Threats After Exposing False Claims About ‘Try That In a Small Town’ Music Video
The country singer’s controversial song has been criticized for being racist and glorifying gun violence.
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Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ Is the Racist Anthem White Folks Have Been Waiting For
Aldean shot the music video for it in front of a courthouse where a Black man was lynched.
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New Evidence Shows the Vegas Shooter Was Probably a Far-Right Extremist, but No One Will Say It
Despite the seemingly overwhelming evidence that the 2017 mass murder on the Las Vegas Strip may have been motivated by extreme-right-wing ideology, law enforcement officials still say they have no idea what caused Stephen Paddock to commit one of the deadliest mass shootings of all time. After losing a court battle to keep them private,…
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Watch: Travis Reinking and the Invisible White Man
This week, another white guy with guns went on a rampage and senselessly killed innocent victims. On April 22, 2018, Travis Reinking entered a Tennessee Waffle House wearing only a jacket, killed four people and escaped butt naked. After a 24-hour manhunt that involved more than 160 officers, he was finally captured. Reinking had many…
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Mother of Off-Duty Police Officer Killed in Las Vegas Mass Shooting Dies the Same Weekend as His Funeral
More tragedy has hit the family of one of the Las Vegas shooting victims. The mother of a victim killed in the mass shooting had a heart attack and died the same weekend that she buried her son. According to CNN, 56-year-old Sheryl Stiles was the mother of Charleston Hartfield, an off-duty Las Vegas police…
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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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Thousands Come Out for Funeral of Officer Slain in Las Vegas Attack
Off-duty Las Vegas Police Officer Charleston Hartfield was one of the 58 people killed when Stephen Haddock fired into a crowd during the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas last week. On Thursday, thousands holding candles came to pay their respects to the 34-year-old husband and father of two at the Police Memorial Park,…
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Las Vegas Shooter Previously Booked Rooms Overlooking 2 Other Large Music Festivals: Report
More info is coming to light about the movements Stephen Paddock made in the days and months leading up to his mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night. Reports now say he also booked rooms overlooking Chicago’s Lollapalooza and another Las Vegas event, the Life Is Beautiful festival. The…
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After Sunday’s Shooting Massacre, Hotels and Casinos in Las Vegas Look to Increase Security
In the wake of Sunday night’s shooting massacre on the Las Vegas Strip, hotels and casinos are looking to maintain as much of a sense of normalcy as possible while simultaneously ramping up security to keep employees and guests alike as safe as possible. The New York Daily News reports that while many in the…