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Trump Writes Summer-Camp Goodbye in Holocaust-Museum Guestbook

It’s one thing for President Donald Trump to be an American embarrassment. For better or worse, he is the crazed uncle who stays in the basement at Grandma’s house. He’s the American family’s shame. So Trump’s first visit overseas as president is making all of America look bad, and if you ever wondered why the…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

May 24, 2017
Miss. Sued Over Unequal Education for Black Students

Mississippi is being hit with a lawsuit—accused of violating the federal law that allowed the state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War—because of what the lawsuit charges is the unequal education that black students receive. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed the lawsuit on behalf of four African-American mothers with children in public…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

May 24, 2017
Wal-Mart Shopper Tells Latina to ‘Go Back to Mexico,’ Calls Black Woman the N-Word in Viral Video

The deplorables stay wilding. It’s like they can’t contain their racist little selves. This time, a white woman is seen hurling racial comments and racial slurs at a Latina and a black woman in a Wal-Mart store in Bentonville, Ark., in a video that has gone viral. The video was shared Monday on Facebook by…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

May 24, 2017
Miss. Man Accused of Intentionally Locking Disabled Child in Hot Car

A Mississippi man was arrested and is facing felony child abuse charges after being accused of intentionally locking a disabled child in a hot car as a way to punish the child’s mother. According to the Clarion-Ledger, 31-year-old Brandon Windham was taken into custody Thursday after witnesses saw him roll up the windows of the…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

May 24, 2017
Politics

#FarmingWhileBlack: Black Va. Farmer Says ‘Nervous White Women in Yoga Pants’ More Dangerous Than Blatant White Supremacists

When discussing the dangers of “____ while black” in this white-settler colonial project known as the United States, the media focus is typically on expensive shops, wealthy white enclaves, airports, parks, city sidewalks, predatory hypermarkets—you know, any place where white people are known to click their heels three times—9-1-1—and lock all the Negroes away—or have…

By

Kirsten West Savali

Published

May 24, 2017
#WalterScott: Black Attorneys Group, New Black Panther Party Demand Life Sentence for Killer Cop Michael Slager

A Washington, D.C.-based black attorneys group is demanding that former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager be given a life sentence in his federal case for the 2015 shooting death of unarmed black motorist Walter Scott. Malik Shabazz, president of Black Lawyers for Justice, is concerned that Slager will get a light sentence, Live…

By

Monique Judge

Published

May 23, 2017
Politics

After Betty Shelby Verdict, People Gather in Oklahoma City to Say ‘Black Lives Matter’

The weekend after Tulsa, Okla., Police Officer Betty Shelby was found not guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of unarmed black motorist Terence Crutcher, people gathered for rallies in Oklahoma City on two separate days to say “Black lives matter.” One group marched through downtown Oklahoma City on Saturday, and another gathered outside Oklahoma…

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Monique Judge

Published

May 23, 2017
#Flint: Science Series Nova to Air Episode on City’s Lead-Contaminated-Water Crisis

The Public Broadcasting Service program Nova, the most-watched science series on American television, will air an episode looking at the chemistry and engineering behind the 3-year-old lead-contaminated-water crisis in Flint, Mich. According to MLive, PBS issued a news release announcing the program, which will premiere May 31 at 9 p.m. “In a money-saving maneuver, the…

By

Monique Judge

Published

May 23, 2017
Bill Enforcing Texas Law Enforcement Requirement to Report Shootings Heading to Governor’s Desk

Updated Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 9:40 p.m. EDT: House Bill 245 passed the Texas Senate on Tuesday by a vote of 28-3. The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Greg Abbott to be signed into law. Rep. Eric Johnson (D-Dallas), who wrote the bill, told The Root that he was proud of his…

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Monique Judge

Published

May 23, 2017
UK Prime Minister Says Another Attack ‘May Be Imminent,’ Raises Nation’s Threat Level

Prime Minister Theresa May raised the United Kingdom’s threat level Tuesday night, saying that another attack “may be imminent,” just one night after a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, left 22 people dead. May raised the U.K.’s alert level from “severe” to its highest rating, “critical,” and deployed the military to…

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Monique Judge

Published

May 23, 2017