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‘Why Do You Think Your Treatment of African Americans Is Justified?’ SC Elementary Teacher Poses Question to Students From KKK Perspective
What are the requirements for being a teacher looking like nowadays? Asking a question for a friend, because sometimes it looks as if some of these teachers really have no form of diversity training or even common sense. Our latest cringe-inducing, jaw-dropping example comes out of South Carolina, where a teacher at Oak Pointe Elementary…
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86-Year-Old International Jewel Thief Doris Payne Is Once Again a Free Woman
Notorious international jewel thief Doris Payne, who has stolen some $2 million in jewelry over the past 60 years, is once again a free woman. Payne, who has found it hard to to quit old habits, was last arrested back in July at a Walmart in Chamblee, Ga., after she was charged with pinching about…
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Donald Trump Jr. Gives Up His Secret Service Protection as Mueller’s Russia Investigation Intensifies
When you are the adult son of a sitting president, you are entitled to protection by the Secret Service for as long as your parent is in office. Donald Trump Jr., our president’s oldest son, has decided he no longer wants that protection, according to multiple reports published Monday evening. The younger Trump is an…
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Family of Md. Man Who Died Days After a Violent Encounter With Police Files Lawsuit
Tawon Boyd called 911 for help on Sept. 18, 2016. After ending up in a physical struggle with the Baltimore County police officers who answered that call, he died in a hospital three days later. Now his family has filed a lawsuit against the police officers, a paramedic and an EMT who responded to that…
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Anti-Fascists Hunt Down, Knock Out Neo-Nazi for Harassing Black Man
Updated Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, 8:34 p.m. EDT: The man who witnessed a neo-Nazi get knocked the fuck out says that before the white supremacist lay down for an impromptu, involuntary nap on the sidewalk, he was yelling racist propaganda at passers-by and even threw a banana at a man. Sean Patrick Duff, who took…
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Lawsuit Claims Columbus, Ohio, Police Have Been Using Excessive Force Against Black Residents
Attorneys for Timothy Davis, an unarmed black man whose brutal beating in a local market at the hands of Columbus, Ohio, police was caught on video, have filed a civil rights complaint against the city. According to the Associated Press, the federal lawsuit filed Monday claims that Columbus police have used excessive force, particularly toward…
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Fantasy Writer Nnedi Okorafor Releases Comic Short Inspired by Chibok, Nigeria, Schoolgirls, Has Novel Developed for HBO
It’s an amazing thing to see the sci-fi/fantasy/comic book world expand to reflect the real world. ’Bout time. And as we wait for the highly anticipated Black Panther film set in the mystical world of Wakanda, we can feast on the story of Ngozi, a disabled teenage superheroine who works her powers in Nigeria in…
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Either Kevin Durant Refers to Himself in 3rd Person, or He Has Another Twitter Account He Uses to Defend Himself
In high school, I took a Spanish class in which I learned that I would be called “Esteban” instead of Stephen. I took to calling myself Esteban the rest of the school year and also talked about myself in the third person: “Esteban doesn’t eat personal pan pizza.” “Esteban has entered the building.” So I…
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Calif. High School Sparks Criticism for Using Slave-Ship Role-Play to Teach Students History
A California high school’s “unique learning experience” designed to teach its students about slavery is drawing national attention after a concerned mother spoke out about it last week. Shardé Carrington spoke to HuffPost last week about an email she received from Whitney High School administrators regarding an upcoming eighth-grade history lesson. In the email, sent…