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Oklahoma City Woman Robs Subway Restaurant but Leaves a $1 Tip for the Cashier
An Oklahoma City woman walked up to the counter at a Subway restaurant, pulled out a rifle and demanded that the cashier give her cash. But before the robber left, she turned around and placed a $1 bill in the employee tip jar, telling the cashier, “That’s for you,” ABC 7 News reports. The report…
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Report: Girls of Color Disciplined Much More Harshly in School Than White Girls
Similar to the Villanova University report released in December about how black girls with browner hues were disciplined much more harshly and much more frequently than fairer-skinned black girls, a new report released Wednesday by Columbia University’s Law School found that girls of color “face much harsher school discipline” than their white counterparts, a press release issued…
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Musician Sings About Kicking Black Congressman in the ‘Behind’ on Fox News
County Singer Larry Gatlin had a special message on Wednesday’s Fox & Friends for Democratic Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings, singing that he would kick the Democrat in the “behind” if he insulted Texas, Raw Story reports. On Monday Hastings called Texas a “crazy state” during a House committee hearing while discussing why the Affordable Care…
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Golfing Pioneer Charlie Sifford Dies
Charlie Sifford, the first African American to play on the PGA Tour, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92, the PGA of America confirmed, according to The Guardian. “His love of golf, despite many barriers in his path, strengthened him as he became a beacon for diversity in our game,” PGA of America…
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Ky. Cop Arrested on Assault Charges in Incidents at School
An officer from the Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky has been arrested on various charges, including assault and wanton endangerment, in two separate incidents at a school, WHAS 11 reports. The department suspended Jonathan Hardin, 31, without pay after his arrest. Both incidents took place while Hardin was working as a school resource officer,…
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Md. Teacher Who Allegedly Made Racist Remark Left Bloody by Student
A Maryland high school teacher was punched and had to be hospitalized last week after witnesses claimed he made a racially insensitive remark, according to NBC Washington. According to the news station, the unnamed teacher at Forestville High School was assaulted Jan. 29 after a male student misinterpreted a comment the instructor made during class. The…
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‘We Can’t Sit Back and Watch History, We’ve Got to Create It’
In 2013, six black and brown kids from the Bronx Academy of Promise in New York City took on the odds, and more than 350 teams, and came out victorious after a math app they created for Google Play won Best in Nation at the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. Now those six teens—who received…
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13-Year-Old Boy May Have Been Killed for Knocking Over Trash Cans
It turns out that Ashton Harting, a 13-year-old Indianapolis boy who was shot dead in the wee hours of the morning of Jan. 19, may have been killed for knocking over trash cans, the New York Daily News reports. Police arrested and charged Dino Thompson, 17, with Ashton’s murder Monday. At first, a witness at…
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Rosa Parks’ Writings Available to Public, Revealing a ‘Lonely’ Woman ‘Cut Off From Life’
Rosa Parks’ volumes of letters, writings, photographs and personal notes will be released to the Library of Congress on Wednesday, giving researchers and the public access to the revered civil rights figure’s life and innermost thoughts, the Associated Press reports. Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Ala.,…
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SC High School Students Redecorate Rock Vandalized With Racist Message
Students at South Pointe High School in South Carolina wasted no time in turning around the ugly message that had been spray-painted across a spirit rock outside the school over the weekend, turning it into a message of equality, the Herald Online reports. The first, racist message, which read “Happy N—ger Month” and was signed…