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Rep. Elijah Cummings Dissed the Donald, but Trump Thought It Was a Compliment
Apparently our Creamsicle-colored commander in chief has spent so much time basking in the artificial glow of tanning beds that he can’t even understand when someone is throwing shade at him. In a conversation with the newspaper he calls “the failing New York Times,” Donald Trump boasted that Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)—who has repeatedly demonstrated…
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Student’s Violent Threat Against Her Md. School Thwarted Because Her Parents Turned Her In
Authorities in Frederick County, Md., said that they were able to stop a teenager who was planning violence at her high school because her parents alerted them to her plan. The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office identified the 18-year-old Catoctin High School student as Nichole Cevario and said she was transferred to a hospital for emergency…
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Killing of Black Man by Self-Proclaimed White Supremacist in NYC ‘Most Likely an Act of Terrorism’: Prosecutor
Prosecutors in New York City are saying that the targeted killing of a black man in midtown Manhattan was most likely an act of terrorism after, they charge, self-proclaimed white supremacist James Harris Jackson, 28, stabbed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman to death. WABC reports that Jackson, from Maryland, was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday and…
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Md. Becomes 5th State to Challenge Trump’s Revised Travel Ban
The “Free State” of Maryland on Friday became the fifth state to join a legal challenge seeking to block the Trump administration’s revised “Muslim ban” in court. More than two dozen lawsuits were issued against the original Jan. 27 travel ban. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said his office would formally join a suit filed…
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7 Times Harriet Tubman Was a Badass Superhero
Harriet Tubman is having a moment. Right now she is the “it” girl of history. No longer relegated to the pages of schoolbooks during Black History Month, the freedom-fighting, self-liberating she-warrior and “conductor” on the Underground Railroad is getting the recognition she so richly deserves. Last year the Treasury Department announced that Tubman would replace…
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Students Fight Back After School Asks Teachers to Remove ‘Anti-Trump’ Pro-Diversity Posters
Students at Westminster (Md.) High School are planning to take a stand after school administrators in Carroll County demanded that teachers take down posters promoting diversity from classrooms, deeming them “political” and “anti-Trump.” According to the Carroll County Times, the incident unfolded last Thursday when the posters were removed because of the allegedly negative view…
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3 Students Hospitalized After Brutal Brawl at Md. High School
A brutal cafeteria fight at Central High School in Prince George’s County, Md., sent three students to the hospital Friday and is now raising the concerns of parents, Fox5DC reports. The brawl was caught on camera and shows a large number of students attacking one another as three adults try to stop the fight. According to the…
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Md. Teacher Asked Students to Write 'Fun' Slave Song During Lesson on Frederick Douglass
A Howard County, Md., high school English teacher was briefly placed on administrative leave last week after instructing students to write a “fun” slave song during a lesson on the famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the report, Howard County Superintendent Renee Foose put the Mount Hebron High School teacher on…
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Elementary School Volunteer Indicted on Additional Charges in Federal Child-Porn Case
A former elementary school volunteer who was already facing several charges related to allegedly producing child pornography was indicted Monday on two additional sex charges by a federal grand jury, the Washington Post reports. Deonte Carraway, 23, of Glenarden, Md., is now facing 15 federal counts of sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography,…