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Kansas City, Mo., Man Sets Up GoFundMe to Surprise Popeyes Employee With Tuition for Nursing Course
I live for all this good news. Humanity might just be OK after all, if we can keep being kind to one another. All it took to change one Popeyes employee’s life was a kindhearted man who took a few seconds to set up a GoFundMe campaign to help her get together the tuition to…
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Life Comes at You Fast: Trump Voters Mad That Border Wall Would Put Their Homes on Mexican Side
When you live under the rule of a dictator, even one that you helped vote into office, you can forget that you live in a dictatorship. I know it’s cool as long as all the weight of his office falls on people who don’t look like you, but what about when you get swept up…
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‘You Wanna Ride the Lightning?’ NYC Cops Heard in Video Threatening Students With Taser
Recently surfaced video shows two New York City police officers apparently taunting students from a Brooklyn high school, threatening them with a Taser as they walk down the street. The video, recorded in mid-March, appears to show one officer with his baton out in his hand as he and his partner walk down the street,…
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2nd Boy, 15, Arrested in Connection With Facebook Live Gang Rape of Chicago Girl
A 15-year-old boy wanted in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl that was broadcast on Facebook Live has turned himself in, police confirmed Monday, making him the second juvenile to be arrested in the case. According to USA Today, the boy was accompanied by his mother when he turned himself in and…
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Senate Democrats Secure Enough Votes to Filibuster Gorsuch; GOP Rule Change Likely
A few weeks ago, when a day of Senate hearings on Donald Trump’s nominee for the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court ended on what was described as a “confrontational note,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that Democrats would filibuster the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, and on Monday, they secured…
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Maine Judge Recuses Himself From Black Lives Matter Hearing
A judge in Portland, Maine, stunned a courtroom full of people Monday when he recused himself from the court hearing of 17 Black Lives Matter protesters at the request of a defense attorney. The Portland Press Herald reports that Judge Paul Fritzsche did not offer an explanation when he abruptly recused himself from the court hearing…
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Muslim Teen Writes #BlackLivesMatter 100 Times for His Stanford Application Statement, Gets Accepted
Is your activism performative or substantive? One New Jersey teen knew exactly how to show his answer to that question when filling out his application to Stanford University. Asked “What matters to you, and why?” the teen could think of only one thing: #BlackLivesMatter. Ziad Ahmed wrote the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter 100 times, and that one…
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According to Republicans, Black People Are Stupid and Lazy
In the latest round of “studies confirming stuff we already knew,” newly released opinion-poll data from the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center shows that people who identify as Republican are more likely to believe that blacks are less motivated and less intelligent than whites. The survey results also reveal that more Republicans believe…