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Racists Commemorate MLK Day by Hitting Northern Virginia Community With KKK Flyers
In Northern Virginia, racists are commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, too—by spreading Ku Klux Klan flyers attacking the slain civil rights leader. Residents in Leesburg, Va., which is located about an hour west of Washington, D.C., first reported seeing the flyers late Friday night, according to WTOP-FM. The local radio outlet reports that…
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New Yorkers Will Rally Against Trump to Honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
New Yorkers will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory today by protesting the 45th president of the United States’ regressive and racist words and deeds in Times Square. The Rally Against Racism event, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, will be held at 3 p.m. to protest Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant…
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Is Condi Rice Mansplaining the #MeToo Movement by Saying Women Shouldn’t Turn Into ‘Snowflakes’?
In words one might not expect from the woman who used to be provost at a major university, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seemingly mansplained the #MeToo movement. “Let’s not turn women into snowflakes. Let’s not infantilize women,” Rice said during a CNN interview with David Axelrod on Saturday night. Instead of rightly…
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H&M South Africa Closes All Stores After Activists Trash Stores Over ‘Monkey’ Ad
Updated Sunday, Jan. 14, 2017, 9:15 a.m. EST: H&M has decided to temporarily close all of its stores in South Africa amid protests that have seen several of its stores ransacked by protesters upset at a recent racist ad. CNN reports that H&M has 17 locations in South Africa. “We continue to monitor the situation…
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Mother of Woman ‘Disposed of’ in Freezing Cold Says Her Daughter Is Mentally Ill
The mother of the 22-year-old patient dumped in the street in subfreezing temperatures after being discharged from a Baltimore hospital has spoken out, saying that she wanted to clear the record about her daughter, whom she says has a mental illness diagnosis. (Sidenote: That an obviously mentally ill 22-year-old was dumped on a frigid sidewalk…
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Trump to the Poor: You Must Work for Your Medicaid, Even Though 60 Percent of You Already Do
In more of the president’s heartless-rich-white-man shtick (except it’s obvious that he’s really all of these things), the Trump administration on Thursday announced that it will allow state-run Medicaid programs to require “able-bodied” Medicaid recipients to work, an action already co-signed by 10 states. The new rules mandate that those who receive the health insurance…
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Activists Who Pulled Down Confederate Statue in Durham, NC, Will Not Face Felony Charges
Eight of the activists who participated in the toppling of a Confederate statue in front of the old courthouse in downtown Durham, N.C., will no longer face felony charges, the county district attorney said Thursday. The activists appeared before District Judge Frederick S. Battaglia at a hearing Thursday morning, the Herald-Sun reports. Their cases were…
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Klansman Who Helped Plot the 1964 Deaths of 3 Civil Rights Workers Dead at 92
A former Klansman who was sentenced in 2005 to 60 years in prison for his role in the 1964 plot to abduct and kill three young civil rights workers during the Freedom Summer drive to register black voters died Thursday in a prison in Parchman, Miss. He was 92. The Mississippi Department of Corrections said…
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Trump’s Lawyer Paid Porn Star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to Keep Quiet About Alleged Encounter With Trump: Report
Well, what do you know? Turns out that a lawyer for the president of most of the Midwestern states and the part of Alabama that voted for Roy Moore paid a former adult-film star $130,000 for her silence around an alleged sexual encounter she had with Donald Trump in 2006. According to an explosive report…
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Trump Blames Obama for Canceled London Visit. Here’s the Real Reason He Backed Out
President Sissy von AnusMouth is having a bad week. He’s gone from being the most hated man in America to possibly being the most hated man in the world. Not only is he forcing Congress to include his dumbass border wall in all negotiations for possible immigrant reform, but during a Thursday meeting, he went…