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We Need to Talk About How Schools Handle Racist Harassment Against Students
Just how many times must a student tell you that your school has a race problem before you believe her? Earlier this month, a senior at Elk Grove High School came forward to the Sacramento Bee about experiencing repeated racial harassment at her high school. The school had recently garnered national attention because one of…
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Florida Elementary School Teacher Sends Home Spelling List With Racial Slur; Barely Bothers to Apologize, Mom Says
It’s a day ending in “y,” so naturally someone did something racist at a school in this country. Today we turn to a Sanford, Fla., elementary school where a teacher didn’t bother to spell-check the take-home spelling list for students, so in place of the word “bigger” was the word “nigger.” When Terry Day, the…
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Oprah Winfrey Is Not Running for President, so Stop Making Those Bootleg T-Shirts and Mugs
We can all let go of the idea of Gayle King as vice president, Ava DuVernay as the secretary of education and, unfortunately for diplomatic relations, Iyanla Vanzant as ambassador to the United Nations. Sadly, middle-American white women, who all wore pink pussy hats during the recent Women’s Marches and yet secretly voted for Donald…
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Citing Trump’s Own Racist Words, NAACP LDF Files Suit Against Homeland Security for Revoking Protections of Haitian Immigrants
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a discrimination lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security for rescinding the Temporary Protected Status of nearly 60,000 Haitian immigrants. According to an LDF press release, the suit alleges that the 2017 decision to remove the TPS of tens of thousands of Haitians displaced by the…
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HUD Official Tries to Apologize for Calling April Ryan ‘Miss Piggy,’ Realizes Too Late that April Ryan Is Not the One
Well, Housing and Urban Development official Lynne Patton tried it with White House reporter April Ryan. And realized way too late that Ryan is really not the one. Normally, in the black community, I feel we have a good idea of people not to test. We don’t test our grandmothers, we usually don’t test that…
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Cops Get Away With Everything
Speaking of cops who escalate things for no reason, remember the story of the off-duty Los Angeles police officer living in Anaheim, Calif., who pulled out his gun and fired it during a scuffle with a 13-year-old boy last year? In case you don’t remember, Officer Kevin Ferguson was upset that some teens in his…
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Watch This Cop Escalate a Situation for No Other Reason Than to Be a Jerk
For those of you who may be too young to know this, before Ice-T was a big star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, he was one of the greatest Los Angeles gangsta rappers of all time. In fact, he was doing gangsta rap before N.W.A even existed. In fact, when you have time,…
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Donald Trump vs. Robert Mueller: Under Oath, Unscripted, Unedited and Uncut
I think I have an idea for the greatest pay-per-view event of all time. It’s something the American people have been waiting for, and it is guaranteed to make millions of dollars. We will call it Donald Trump vs. Robert Mueller: Under Oath, Unscripted, Unedited and Uncut. In case you haven’t already heard, Donald Trump…
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Federal Investigation Launched After Baltimore Woman Kicked Out of Hospital Wearing Only a Gown and Socks
It may be one of the most heartless acts of 2018 so far. A Baltimore hospital released a woman who was having what her lawyers have described as a psychotic episode out into the freezing Baltimore night air wearing nothing but a hospital gown and socks. A video showing the woman, who was later identified…