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Mayor of Paris Seeks to Ban City’s 1st Afro-Feminist Festival Because It Excludes ‘White People’
Paris is buggin’. Or at least its mayor is. She says she will ask the city to formally ban Paris’ first Afro-feminist festival on the grounds that it is discriminatory against “white people.” Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo made her announcement on Twitter, adding that she reserved the right “to prosecute the organizers for discrimination,” because…
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City of Baltimore Mulls Removing Confederate Statues by Auctioning Them Off
For those who think that Maryland is not the South, think again. Actually, Maryland’s Eastern Shore is where two of America’s most iconic anti-slavery heroes were born into slavery: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. And so, the capital city in the state south of the Mason-Dixon Line is joining many others in deciding the fate…
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LaVar Ball—His Team and His Mouth—Shut Down by Compton, 109-57
Known loudmouth LaVar Ball got his comeuppance from the city of Compton, Calif., on Saturday—and NBA star James Harden was there to see the whole thing. Ball’s AAU basketball team—the Big Ballers, which his oldest son, LaMelo, plays for—got crushed 109-57 by the Compton Magic at the Magic Memorial Day Festival in Southern California, according…
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Texas Black Student Given ‘Most Likely to Blend in With White People’ Award
And the superlative awards are getting even more offensive. Just days after a student received an award stating she was most likely to be a terrorist, another student was given an equally offensive award at the same school. Sydney Caesar, a student at Anthony Aguirre Junior High School in Texas, received an award that stated…
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Noose Found Hanging From Tree Outside DC Museum
A noose was found hanging from a tree outside the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Washington, D.C., early Friday evening, according to authorities. A criminal investigation is underway. The Washington Post reports that the museum had been closed for about an hour when a security guard discovered the noose and called the U.S. Park…
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Ala. Governor and Legislature Fight to Hold On to Confederate Legacy
Some white people are doubling down on efforts to keep their white supremacist trophies. Alabama’s Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation this week that will prevent cities and counties in the state from removing Confederacy monuments from public property, according to The Hill. The bill blocks local governments from removing monuments that have been on…
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Federal Prosecutor Found Dead on South Fla. Beach
A federal prosecutor was found dead on a beach in Florida this week. Beranton J. Whisenant Jr. was found early Wednesday with possible head trauma caused by gunshot or other means, according to the Miami Herald. The 37-year-old had just joined the Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office in January and investigated cases of visa and passport…
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DC Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo Has 2 Life Sentences Thrown Out
A federal judge on Friday tossed out two life sentences without parole for Lee Boyd Malvo, one of two gunmen convicted in the “D.C. sniper” shooting cases in 2002. The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk, Va., said that Malvo is entitled to new sentencing hearings, based on the U.S.…
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Kingston Frazier Buried With Blue Power Ranger, Ninja Turtle: His Last Day Was ‘the Happiest Day of His Life’
On Wednesday, May 17, Kingston Frazier’s last full day on earth, he rode the bus home from North Jackson Elementary School in Mississippi. He was excited because he knew that he would be graduating from kindergarten to first grade the next day. It was “the happiest day of his life,” Ebony Archie, the 6-year-old boy’s…