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26-Year-Old Wins Local Office in Georgia, Takes Her Oath of Office on Autobiography of Malcolm X
Since Tuesday’s elections held throughout the nation, an already iconic photo has been sweeping the internet—of 26-year-old Mariah Parker taking her oath of office as Athens-Clarke County, Ga., commissioner for District 2, with her mother holding, not the Bible or Quran, but another good book: Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X. Parker, who reportedly won…
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White South African Farmers, Fearing Violence, Tap Israeli Special Forces Agent for Defense Classes
White South African farmers are enrolling in specially designed self-defense courses based on fears that they’ll be attacked by black South Africans. According to Newsweek, which cites local news sources, a number of white farmers have tapped Idan Abolnik, a former soldier with the Israeli special forces, to help them protect themselves. This follows the…
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White Teacher Makes Instagram Post Mocking Black Elementary Student’s Hair
A Canadian school board has launched an investigation after a white substitute teacher made an offensive post on Instagram mocking the hair of a black student. The Peel District School Board was notified of the racist post after a concerned community member posted about it on Twitter. “Hi @PeelSchools,” Twitter user @giaper wrote. “[P]lease be…
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White Family Beats Down 2 Police Officers. Miraculously, No One Gets Shot
This is one of those stories where, if I were writing it about a black family, it would have an entirely different headline and an entirely different outcome, because that’s how these things work in our society right now. A husband, wife, their son and an unidentified juvenile relative were all arrested in Middle River,…
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Black Firefighter Being Burned for Kneeling During the National Anthem
Add this to the list of things you cannot do while being black: exercise your First Amendment rights. Oh, wait. The NFL already made that a thing, right? A black firefighter in Chicago is being burned at the stake by his peers and local journalists alike after he made the decision to kneel on the…
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The True Danger of Trump: How White, Republican Judges Sentence Black People to Longer Prison Terms
While you were worried about Russian collusion, Kardashian pardons, national anthem protests, trade tariffs, border walls and Melania Trump’s secret face-lift kidney surgery, the Trump administration has been successfully implementing an insidious plan that threatens to reverberate in black America for decades to come. When it comes to the black community, despite what media headlines…
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Trump Embarrasses His Wife With Cheating Scandals but Thinks the Media Treats Her Unfairly
With a full heart and clear eyes, President Donald Trump tweeted, earnestly, that he’s getting tired of the “vicious” treatment first lady Melania Trump has received behind her weeklong absence from the public eye. “The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania,” Trump tweeted.…
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UPS Employee Fired After Posting That Black ‘Thugs’ Deserve Police Violence
Another day, another Tabatha out of a job after being racist and nasty online. Just another day ending in “y.” According to WSB-TV, Atlanta-based UPS human resources supervisor Gwendolyn Carder is now jobless after posting online that a black suspect was a “thug” and insinuating that the suspect deserved police violence. Carder’s post appeared in…
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White Restaurant Manager Pleads Guilty to Enslaving Mentally Disabled Black Man
The manager of a South Carolina restaurant has pleaded guilty to one federal count of forced labor, admitting to using violence and threats in order to force a mentally disabled black man to work for grueling hours without pay. According to the Post and Courier, 53-year-old Bobby Paul Edwards, who once managed J&J Cafeteria in…
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Celebrity-Obsessed Trump Listens to Kim Kardashian, Commutes Alice Johnson’s Life Sentence
It might be time to run all of our presidential requests through Kim Kardashian West. President Donald Trump, appearing to heed the advice of the reality-TV star after their chat at the White House last week, has commuted the sentence of Alice Johnson, a black woman serving life for a nonviolent drug offense, Axios reports.…