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New Study Suggests Black Middle-Class Families May Have Zero Wealth in a Few Decades
Because of legalized segregation, job discrimination and racist housing policies, it’s not surprising that black and Latinx families haven’t had the same opportunities to amass wealth as white families have. But a new study—and an accompanying op-ed by one of its researchers—reveal that black and Latinx families have actually lost wealth over the last 30…
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New Study Finds That LGBTQ Youths and Youths With Disabilities Suffer Most Under Solitary Confinement
The story of Kalief Browder, the 22-year-old who committed suicide after spending nearly two years in solitary confinement at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail, is a tragic testament to a life snuffed out by a grinding, unflinching U.S. criminal-justice system. Not only did Browder suffer brutal violence at the hands of guards and…
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Miss. Elementary School Teacher Fired Over Facebook Post Telling African Americans to ‘Move Back to Africa’
Updated Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, 12:15 p.m. EDT: Looks like the South Panola School District in Mississippi isn’t buying the ol’ “Oh my goodness, I’ve been hacked!” excuse after an elementary school teacher was caught making racist comments on Facebook. Cammie Rone, who taught at Batesville Intermediate School, has been officially fired after commenting that…
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Sean Spicer’s Latest Lie: I ‘Have Not Knowingly’ Lied to America
Former White House press secretary Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer is such a liar that he really believes that he didn’t “knowingly” lie to America. In an interview with Good Morning America on Thursday, his first since his “Normalizing-Hate World Tour” appearance at the Emmys, in which he joked about his lie regarding inauguration attendance, Spicer…
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Plainclothes ICE Agents Who Did Not Identify Themselves Caught on Video Harassing Latino Citizen
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are being slammed for their conduct after they were caught on video harassing a Latino man, demanding that he give them his name and identification, even though they failed to identify themselves as agents. According to The Oregonian, Isidro Andrade-Tafolla and his wife were leaving the Washington County Courthouse on…
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Another Horrible Quarterback Signed by Coach Who Wants Nothing to Do With Colin Kaepernick
According to reports (since I’m boycotting the NFL), Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles couldn’t throw a Frisbee into the ocean if he was standing at the shoreline. Sounds like a perfect fit for a free agent quarterback who not only throws the ball with some accuracy but can also run like a gazelle. Seems like…
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Father, Daughter Face Charges in Beating of Girl’s Ex-Boyfriend
A Kansas father-daughter duo are facing assault charges after authorities say the pair attacked the girl’s ex-boyfriend at a local high school after the boy threatened her. Josiah S. Wright, 40, is facing charges of first-degree assault, while his 17-year-old daughter is facing charges of domestic assault in the Tuesday-afternoon incident that occurred at Ruskin…
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Darth Chad Shows Everyone Why He Was Fired From Google
Disgraced ex-Googler and champion of white-straight-male mediocrity, James Damore, is back on his bullshit, this time to lament that people can’t call certain aspects of the Ku Klux Klan “cool.” Damore, who was a software engineer at Google, first made headlines for writing an anti-diversity memo that was circulated around the company. The memo claimed,…