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Texas 16-Year-Old Finds ‘Forever Home’ After Asking Teacher to Adopt Him
Let’s start this Friday off right with some onion-chopping ninjas, shall we? We could all use a little bit of good news, and the story of a Texas student who was adopted by his high school teacher is definitely good, as well as heartwarming. According to KTRK-TV, Anthony Berry, 16, was the one who asked…
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‘Minecraft’ Creator Goes Full White Man Denying White Privilege on Twitter
Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of the game “Minecraft,” appeared to have a white-privilege meltdown on Twitter early Thursday regarding his belief that it is “ok to be white” and white privilege, as he says, is a “made up metric.” It started with a single tweet early Thursday morning. “It’s ok to be white,” Persson,…
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Nazi Sympathizer Loses His Job and Home After Being Profiled by the New York Times
Today in “Ahahaha, that’s what the fuck you get” news, the Nazi sympathizer who was profiled by the New York Times in an attempt to humanize him and his racist ideology says he has lost his job in the ensuing backlash from the article and could soon lose his home. Tony Hovater, 29, told the…
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City Councilman and Sheriff’s Deputy Tweets Racist Response to Philando Castile Settlement
I’m rarely shocked by racism. It often angers me. But knowing you live in a world co-existing alongside such evil and hate is depressing. It’s never surprising, but it still hurts. Take Tom McBroom Sr., for instance. Minnesota’s City Pages describes McBroom as a sergeant on the Rice County, Minn., Sheriff’s Department and a city…
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Woman Kills Thanksgiving Guest After He Didn’t Offer Her Crack: Report
In Minneapolis, what began as an invitation to a Thanksgiving meal ended in a bizarre death. Anenia Marie Hare, 47, is behind bars after authorities say she killed a dinner guest who had the poor manners to smoke crack at her Thanksgiving table—and not offer her any. As the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports, Hare invited over…
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Has 1 Foot Out of the White House and the Other on a Banana Peel
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is currently updating his LinkedIn profile to include his work at the White House. He’s spent a good portion of his morning calling friends to see who’s hiring, and practicing saying the word “funemployment,” because he’s out. Everyone knows he’s out, including Tillerson. Which is the reason he’s been combing…
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Too Good to Be True? New Report Raises Concerns About DC High School Where Every Graduating Student Was Accepted to College
Last June was a triumphant moment for Frank W. Ballou Senior High School, a predominantly black school located in Southeast Washington, D.C. After years of dismal student test scores and graduation rates, Ballou made headlines that could make the school and its students proud: Their entire senior class had been accepted to college. It was…
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Devon Wade Must Be Remembered for Disrupting the Prison Pipeline, Not Merely for How He Died
I will never forget the first—and, unfortunately, what would be the only—time I had the pleasure of meeting Devon Tyrone Wade, the Columbia University Ph.D. student killed late Sunday night. He was charming, had a smile that lit the entire room and demanded attention in the most subtle ways. Through his social media posts, it…