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Jim Crow Laws Alive and Well in de Blasio’s NYC: Black and Brown People Still Targeted, Arrested at Higher Rates Than Whites, Report Finds [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Fla. School District Promises to ‘Take Appropriate Action’ After Elementary School Teacher Accused of Calling Black Students ‘Rats’
A Florida school district is promising to “take appropriate” action after an elementary school teacher was accused of calling black students “rats” and claiming that they could “infest the class,” adding that “that’s why their race is either dead or in jail.” Tell us how you really feel, why don’t you? According to WSBTV, the…
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Tenn. Doctor Calls Black Patient ‘Aunt Jemima,’ Says It Was a ‘Misspoken Blunder’
A Memphis, Tenn., woman is still in shock after she says her doctor greeted her by calling her an insulting, racially charged name during a visit on July 11. Lexi Carter said that Dr. James Turner came up to her in the waiting room and said, “Hi Aunt Jemima,” WMC Action News 5 reports. “I…
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ND Man Sentenced to Prison for Sexting 17-Year-Old Who Would Later Become His Wife
A 36-year-old Minot, N.D., man was sentenced to three years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender for sexting with a 17-year-old girl who would become his wife a mere few months later. According to the Minot Daily News, Thomas Hannibal Drumgold II is already serving a five-year prison sentence for…
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2 Former Staff Members Charged in Circulation of Nude Photos of US House Member, Husband
Two former staff members of a congresswoman have been charged in the circulation of nude photos and video of the representative and her husband, federal prosecutors and the U.S. Capitol Police announced Thursday in Washington, D.C.. U.S. Attorney for the District Channing D. Phillips and Capitol Police Chief Matthew R. Verderosa said in a statement…
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No Hate Crime Charges Against White University of Md. Student Accused of Killing Black Bowie State Student
Sean Christopher Urbanski, the white University of Maryland student who is accused of stabbing and killing black Bowie State student Richard Collins III on May 20, has been indicted on charges in the crime and will be heading to trial, but he will not be facing hate crime charges. Urbanski, 22, is charged with killing…
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Brutal Viral Video Shows Police Dog Mauling Black Man
A video of a San Diego police dog viciously attacking a handcuffed black man has caused outrage after millions of people viewed it on social media. NBC San Diego reports that police received reports of a man screaming, jumping on cars and acting out in downtown San Diego. When officers arrived on the scene, they…
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Texas Police Promised to Drop Charges Against 2 Teens if Mom Surrendered Video Footage of Arrest, Activists Say
Activists in Arlington, Texas, have accused local officers of promising to drop charges against two teenagers in exchange for a video that their mother took of their arrests. According to the Dallas Morning News, Next Generation Action Network, a Dallas-based organization that lobbies against police brutality, posted the video of the incident, which the organization…
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Jason Whitlock Says Protesting Racial Injustice Is ‘Stupid’
The bulging, over-full colostomy bag who somehow maintains his rotund, deflated kickball-shaped figure despite participating in the daily yoga routine of perpetually contorting himself to always end up on white America’s side of any issue while criticizing and castigating anything or anyone remotely connected to blackness has opened his bile-spewing mouth again. Or—as some people…
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Here Are the Major 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations
Shemar Moore and Anna Chlumsky announced the 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards Thursday morning from the Wolf Theatre in the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, Calif., and some of our faves made the cut. From Donald Glover’s series and role on Atlanta to Viola Davis for her role on How to Get Away With…