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Activist DeRay Mckesson Announces Book Deal
Civil rights activists, podcast host and electric-blue puffy-vest aficionado DeRay Mckesson will release his first book in the fall. Entitled On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope, which is perhaps the second-most civil-rights-ish name ever (my memoir, Justice Bruises: A Negro Spiritual About Equality Aboard the Freedom Train, being No. 1), Mckesson’s…
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Black Students at Michigan Middle School Targeted by Threatening, Racist Email
Ypsilanti, Mich., families are demanding answers after an email with threatening, racist language was sent to six black students at Washtenaw International Middle Academy. One of those students was Devin Francois’ seventh-grade daughter. The email was sent to students on Jan. 29, and Francois has kept her daughter, Ariana, at home from school since Feb.…
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New York Times Hires, Fires Reporter for Using the N-Word, but She’s Not Racist … Just White
In an obvious display of one-upmanship during Black History Month, the New York Times erased the notable achievement of African-American icon Craig Jones from the movie Friday, who was famously fired on his day off, when the heralded newspaper abruptly fired white opinion writer Quinn Norton on the same day it hired her after tweets of…
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Angela Davis Frees Herself of Her Personal Archives, Which Go to Harvard
Angela Davis, the academic, womanist, activist and freedom fighter who has been part of the quest for black liberation and dignity for more than 50 years, has decided to give her personal effects to Harvard. The Schlesinger Library at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced Tuesday that it has acquired more than 150…
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Trump’s Lawyer: I Paid the Porn Star $130,000 but That Doesn’t Mean She Had Sex With the President
President Donald Trump didn’t pay porn star Stormy Daniels in an attempt to hide their reported affair. Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, paid Stormy, née Stephanie Clifford, out of his own pocket, but he won’t say why she was paid or what she was paid for. Cohen also claims that he was not…
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NYC Judge Says Cops Were Justified in Handcuffing 16-Year-Old Kimani Gray as He Died in the Street
A Brooklyn, N.Y., federal judge has ruled that police officers were justified in arresting 16-year-old Kimani Gray as the teen lay in the street dying from gunshot wounds suffered at the hands of police. According to the New York Daily News, in the ruling, the judge effectively scrapped two claims in a wrongful death lawsuit…
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Court Rules Alabama Town’s School Segregation Too Racist … Even for Alabama
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a lower-court ruling that allowed an Alabama town to essentially segregate its schools, finding that the new school district’s intentions to split from Jefferson County schools were racially motivated and typical of how white people will do whatever it takes when black people get too close. OK…
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Milwaukee Jail Staffers Facing Charges in Death of Inmate Who Died of Dehydration
It’s been almost two years since Terrill Thomas died of dehydration while in custody at the Milwaukee County jail, and almost a year since jurors recommended that staffers at the facility be held liable in his death. On Monday, prosecutors finally announced that three jail staffers will be facing criminal charges in the death. According…
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Former White House Staffer Accused of Domestic Violence Was Being Considered for Promotion: Report
In a normal government like, say, Wakanda, a person with a history of domestic violence would not be able to ascend the ranks even as the FBI was denying said person security clearance. That person would not be allowed to date T’Challa’s fake daughter because he would have been banished from the kingdom. Sadly, though,…