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NRA Spokeswoman Dana Loesch Says MLK Inspired Her, Has No Clue What MLK Actually Stood For
If you had to make a list of the top 10 people whose opinions on Martin Luther King Jr. you could have gone the rest of your life without hearing, I’m willing to bet that “NRA spokesman” might have made that list. And for a good portion of your life, your wish would have been…
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North Carolina Mother Upset After 2nd-Grade Son Is Sent Home With Paper Explaining ‘White Privilege’
A Raleigh, N.C., parent is not too pleased after her second-grade son came home from Hunter Magnet Elementary with a sheet explaining white privilege. According to WTVD-TV, the incident occurred last month. Amber Pabon saw the two-sided sheet of paper in her son’s folder, with one side discussing white representation in the government, media and…
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#StephonClark: Black Lives Matter Protests Will Continue ‘Until We Get Justice’
The Sacramento, Calif., chapter of Black Lives Matter wants the two police officers who shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark on March 18 to be fired and criminally charged. To that end, its members have been demonstrating outside the office of Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. Chapter founder Tanya Faison told Capital Public Radio…
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Robert Mueller Follows the Money by Questioning Russian Oligarchs
In a quest to find out whether or not money was illegally funneled to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign—either directly or indirectly through cash donations—special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has been questioning Russian oligarchs traveling into the United States. Multiple sources told CNN that at least one Russian oligarch was stopped and had his electronic devices…
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Minneapolis Community Activist Shot Dead Just Outside Mother’s Front Door
Minneapolis police are searching for the gunman who fatally shot a community activist just outside his mother’s home. According to WCCO-TV, Tyrone Williams, 33, was killed Tuesday night at around 6 p.m., just as he was leaving his mother’s home. A car was seen fleeing the scene after Williams was shot, and police are asking…
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Timothy Cunningham, the CDC Employee Missing Since February, Has Been Found Dead
Atlanta police say a body pulled from the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta this week has been positively identified as Timothy Cunningham, an employee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who mysteriously vanished almost two months ago. As the Washington Post reports, authorities have yet to provide further details about the discovery of Cunningham’s…
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#BlackGirlMagic: Illinois 8th-Grader Raises $1,000 to Give Community a ‘Free Wash Day’ at Local Laundromat
Jayera Griffin knows a thing or two about community service. It is, after all, while she was tutoring younger kids at her school when she realized that something just wasn’t quite right. “I would see that their clothes weren’t as clean as they could be,” the eighth-grader at Washington Junior High in Riverdale, Ill., told WGN-TV.…
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Government Study: School Is Racist
That headline could go down as the greatest clickbait of all time if it weren’t for the fact that a new report found that—regardless of the racial makeup of the school, the type of punishment, the level of poverty in the school or grade level—black students are much more likely than their white counterparts to…
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Memphis, Tenn., Honors 1968 Sanitation Workers With I Am a Man Plaza
Perhaps no phrase encapsulates the sentiment of the struggle for freedom, justice and equality more than “I am a man.” Every day during the 1968 Memphis, Tenn., sanitation workers’ strike, Memphis’ black sanitation employees would meet downtown at the historic Clayborn Temple. When the men arrived, they would pick up picket signs that read, “I…