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Mike Pence Turned Beet Red During MLK Service as Black Preacher Went Off About ‘Shithole’ Remarks
Everyone in the black community knows that there are three people who can dismantle your soul and crush your spirit using nothing but words: the oldest barber at any barbershop, a black mother whose child forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer and—worst of all—a black Baptist preacher. According to the Colt 45…
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Simone Biles Says She, Too, Was Abused by USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar
Olympic star Simone Biles has added her voice to the #MeToo movement, revealing in a statement via Twitter that she, too, was sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar. More than 140 women have accused Nassar of probing and fondling them without gloves, warning or permission under the guise of giving them…
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Trump, Whose Racist Record Goes Back More Than 40 Years, Says He Is ‘the Least Racist Person’
President Donald Trump—a man who was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for racial discrimination, who called for the death penalty against the Central Park Five, who claimed for years that the first black president of the United States wasn’t born in this country, who labeled Mexicans rapists and criminals during his first 2016…
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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…