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Parents Sue Miss. School District After White Teacher Allegedly Makes Comment About Hanging Black Child
Local parents have filed a lawsuit against a central-Mississippi school district after they say a white substitute teacher made a horrific, threatening racist comment about their black son being hanged. According to the Associated Press, Tony and Kayla Lindsey say that their son, who has since graduated, got into an argument in April and threatened…
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Facebook Promises to Finally Add Black Member to All-White Board
After being pressed by black lawmakers, Facebook has finally committed to hiring a black person to serve on its board of directors. Currently, no people of color sit on Facebook’s board. The commitment came during Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s visit to Capitol Hill Thursday to meet with members of the Congressional Black Caucus,…
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White Supremacists From Deadly Charlottesville, Va., Rally Being Sued
Eleven people are stepping up and suing several white nationalists from the deadly Charlottesville, Va., rally, alleging that because of the white supremacists’ threats and violence, they suffered emotional and physical trauma. On Wednesday, a federal lawsuit was officially filed in Charlottesville and named 25 white nationalist individuals and groups, including national fuckboi Richard Spencer,…
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La. Sheriff Calls for Boycott of Ford Dealership Because the Company Advertises With the NFL
The sheriff of Bossier Parish, La., has decided to boycott his local Ford dealership because he doesn’t like that the automaker advertises with the NFL while players continue their protests against police brutality and black oppression. Like the protests have anything to do with Ford and how it gets its ads out there. Like everyone…
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City of Los Angeles Looks to Fully Decriminalize Street Vending as a Means of Protecting Undocumented Immigrants From Immigration Agents
Walk outside a Hollywood, Calif., nightclub on any given night of the week and you are bound to come across a street vendor selling delicious-smelling hot dogs and sausages smothered in peppers and onions. The familiar tinkling of a bell attached to the end of a cart as it makes its way down your street…
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Slavery-Simulation Game Outrages Parents in Phoenix
Want to learn about slavery? Put down the history books, forget about teachers and just step into the life of 14-year-old slave Lucy King as she tries to escape from a Kentucky plantation. Sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? Well, no, it’s not. And parents in a Phoenix school district are outraged. The Phoenix…
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Trump Just Signed an Executive Order Crippling Obamacare
The president of undoing former President Barack Obama’s legacy is back on his bullshit, signing an executive order Thursday to undo portions of Obamacare because he and his lame crew can’t present a decent health care plan that makes sense. Trump claimed that the order is “starting that process” to repeal the Affordable Care Act…
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Did the Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Netflix Doc Steal a Black Trans Filmmaker’s Work?
Accusations against David France, the award-winning director of the new Netflix documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, have been gaining steam in the last week. At the center of the growing controversy is a transgender woman of color, activist and filmmaker Reina Gossett, who claims that France lifted her work in making…
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‘We Should Have Hung All You … While We Had the Chance’: Parents Fear for Daughter’s Safety After Classmate Sends Her Threatening Message
It always amazes me when people don’t like being called racist, so then they jump to the most racist thing ever. That totally makes sense. Except now a Texas family are terrified because their daughter received a threatening message after she called out a classmate for being racist. According to the Houston Chronicle, the unidentified…