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Trump’s Random DACA Deadline Is Here, but He’s Too Busy Tweeting About Obama to Care
Way back in September, President Donald Trump set an arbitrary deadline to get the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals bill passed. The bill would grant a means to citizenship to undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children. The date Trump randomly gave was March 5. In January, Trump refused to sign a bipartisan…
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The Mutiny at Hampton University
Students at one of America’s top HBCUs are protesting a long list of problems faced by students at the school, including sexual assault, safety, food and the lack of maintenance of campus facilities. The long-simmering situation at Hampton University is reaching a slow boil, pitting the student body against the university’s leadership and administration. Faced…
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The Same People Who Want to Keep Somalis Out of the US Want Trump to Let in White South Africans
South Africa’s Parliament, in a landmark vote last week, moved to amend the nation’s constitution to allow for the government to seize land from white South Africans without compensation. The controversial decision has sparked questions about what might happen to the white South African farmers who currently own the land, and how the land would…
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Florida Students Blast Teacher, Hailed as Hero, as a ‘Coward’ Who Left Them to Die During Shooting
Two students who survived the horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., are now saying that one teacher who has been hailed as a hero for saving students during the rampage was actually a coward who left them to die by locking them out of a classroom. As USA Today notes,…
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‘Stop Blaming White People’ Sign Prompts Investigation at New Jersey Post Office
The United States Postal Service is investigating after a stupid racist sign was placed on the outside of its Flemington, N.J., location. “March is national stop blaming white people month! Accept responsibility for your own bad choices. Hug a white person!” the sign, which was put up sometime Thursday, read. It was taken down in…
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Bill Cosby Heads to Court to Stop Accusers From Testifying in Retrial as Prosecutors Seek to Call 19 Additional Women as Witnesses
Bill Cosby is scheduled to be in court Monday in a bid to stop several of his accusers from testifying in his sexual assault retrial April 2. According to NBC 5 Chicago, Cosby’s defense team is expected to argue with prosecutors over the potential witnesses at the pretrial hearing. The Associated Press reports that prosecutors…
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Of Lions, Hunters and Heroes: Black Film, Black Stories and Black Realities
Tonight the Black Lives Matter Global Network took to the Oscars stage. Five years of building up black communities. Five years of experiencing police repression. Five years of centering black stories as the way we honor both the dead and the living. We took to the Oscar stage because Black Lives Matter refuses to stop…
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Former Texas Prosecutor Withheld Email That Could Have Prevented Innocent Man From Landing on Death Row: Report
In an announcement late Friday, Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Kim Ogg revealed that a former prosecutor withheld a key email that could have prevented Alfred Dewayne Brown from receiving the death penalty. As the Houston Chronicle reports, the email helped establish “a clear alibi” for Brown, who was convicted in a high-profile murder case…
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Florida Middle School Teacher Outed as ‘Unapologetic’ White Supremacist
In an exclusive report, HuffPost has revealed evidence suggesting that a 25-year-old Florida middle school teacher, Dayanna Volitich, has been secretly hosting a white nationalist podcast. In the Unapologetic podcast, which Volitich hosts under the alias “Tiana Dalichov,” Volitich brags about bringing her racist beliefs into her Crystal River Middle School classroom. “I get to…