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The Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, MLK’s Right Hand, Dead at 88
The Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, a fierce civil rights advocate and strategist over many generations, died Tuesday at his home in Chester, Va. He was 88 years old. His death was announced by the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network on Twitter; Walker was the 27-year-old organization’s first board chairman. As with…
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A Reporter May Have Found the Last American Slave Ship
In 1860, 52 years after the importation of human chattel was outlawed in the United States, the Clotilda, a two-masted schooner, sneaked into Mobile Bay near Mobile, Ala., returning from a secret mission in Benin, Africa. Captained by William Foster, the Clotilda unloaded its precious cargo: 110 kidnapped human beings. When federal authorities discovered that…
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Alabama High School Teacher Admits to Using Racial Slur Because Students Were Playing Tupac in Class
A teacher at a high school in Alabama was put on administrative leave with pay after fully admitting to using a racial slur during class last week. According to AL.com, Hoover High School Superintendent Kathy Murphy confirmed that the teacher, identified as Teddie Butcher, admitted to using the word “nigger” while asking students to turn…
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Omarosa Continues to Cash Out on Her Time in the White House Because That’s What Soulless People Do
Southern universities get ready: Omarosa Manigault Newman, the woman with the soul the size of an acorn that’s been smashed into pieces by a tractor, has signed with a speakers bureau … because who didn’t see this coming? Seriously, did anyone not see Omarosa looking to cash in on her time in the White House?…
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Tougaloo College Receives Grant to Finally Tell Story of Civil Rights Hero Fannie Lou Hamer
Of all the stories from the civil rights era, perhaps the most extraordinary and least told tale is that of the icon and freedom fighter Fannie Lou Hamer. An upcoming documentary will finally tell Hamer’s stirring story in her own words, thanks to a historic grant by the Kellogg Foundation to Mississippi’s Tougaloo College. Keith…
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Sorry, Virginia: Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Doesn’t Want to Hear You Wax Poetic About Confederate ‘Heroes’
Southern white men love to memorialize other white men who fought for years to keep African Americans enslaved. It’s the Southern-white-man thing to do to champion the losers of the Confederacy. So, on Monday, when Virginia state Sen. Emmett W. Hanger Jr. (R-Augusta) stood up to lionize the birthday of Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall”…
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Lucky Lakers Fan Wins $100,000 for Hitting Half-Court Shot
Every basketball fan has fantasized about it at one time or another, but imagine what would happen if you were the lucky person who hit that half-court shot on your team’s home court to win a big, fat check for $100,000. Suni Strong of Lancaster, Calif., doesn’t have to wonder any longer after he completed…
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Government Shutdown Ends With House Vote
Three days after it began, the shutdown of the U.S. government is officially over: The House voted Monday evening 266-150 to pass the Senate-approved continuing resolution. The Senate had already approved the resolution with a 81-18 vote Monday afternoon. The continuing resolution will fund the government through Feb. 8 once it is signed into law…
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Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, May Have Worn Out His White House Welcome: Report
We all know that no one puts Donald Trump in a corner, unless said corner is filled with soggy fried chicken in a white bucket that he can wear as a hat once he’s finished eating, and prerolled Forbes magazines for naughty time. So it looks like the love affair between White House chief of…