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#Flint: City’s Plan for $100,000,000 in Federal Grant Money Submitted to EPA
A request submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality indicates that the city of Flint intends to use $100 million in federal funds to improve its water-treatment plant, replace underground pipes and make other system improvements. The request is part of the process for the city to…
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas From Removing Medicaid Funds From Planned Parenthood
A federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday that state health officials cannot remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, ensuring that the women’s health provider will remain in the federal program at least until a federal lawsuit is settled. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks issued the preliminary injunction that temporarily blocked the move and said the state…
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#NoDAPL: Police Arresting Water Protectors Who Remain at Camp After Deadline
Water protectors who fought against the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline and remained at the Standing Rock encampment in North Dakota past the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Wednesday deadline for evacuation faced arrest Thursday as officers moved in to remove those who were still at the site. USA Today reports that…
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Supreme Court Orders New Hearing in Case of Texas Inmate’s Racially Biased Death Sentence
Duane Buck may get justice yet. On Wednesday the Supreme Court of the United States ordered a new hearing for Buck, a black Texas inmate who has sat for years on death row, after hearing claims that improper testimony about his race got him sentenced to death. As The Guardian reports, justices voted 6-2 in…
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Anti-Defamation League Evacuated After Bomb Scare
On Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League received a bomb threat to its New York headquarters, a building that also houses the headquarters of Univision properties, including The Root, making this the latest in a recent series of threats against Jewish organizations. “This is not the first time that ADL has been targeted,” Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL’s CEO,…
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Trump Kept a Copy of Hitler’s Speeches Near His Bed: Report
Now, this is getting interesting. Turns out that President Donald Trump isn’t just found of Hitler’s politics; he’s reportedly also fond of his speeches. In a lengthy 1990 piece in Vanity Fair, Trump begin waxing poetic about his German heritage, noting that his father’s parents were German—or Swedish, really (you know Trump can never give…
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Muslim Activists Raise More Than $70,000 to Repair Vandalized Jewish Cemetery
Recent headlines have been peppered with reports of various acts of violence, from vandalism to racist YouTube videos to other forms of hate speech—the list goes on and on. It is more than a little heartwarming, then, to see one community reach out to another. As of about 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Muslim activists had…
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Students Fight Back After School Asks Teachers to Remove ‘Anti-Trump’ Pro-Diversity Posters
Students at Westminster (Md.) High School are planning to take a stand after school administrators in Carroll County demanded that teachers take down posters promoting diversity from classrooms, deeming them “political” and “anti-Trump.” According to the Carroll County Times, the incident unfolded last Thursday when the posters were removed because of the allegedly negative view…
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Sage Steele Keeps Sage Steele-ing; Claims Worst Racism She’s Received Is From Blacks
Sage Steele just won’t stop Sage Steele-ing. That’s right, the ESPN anchor has become a verb because she has insisted on antagonizing black people as one of the loudest voices of respectability politics. For a better look at how Sage Steele became Sage Steele-ing, please see a list of her transgressions below. Sage Steele-ing is…
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Dylann Roof Went to Another AME Church After the Charleston, SC, Shooting: Report
Dylann Roof, the white supremacist convicted in the horrific attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., stopped at another AME church the night of the massacre, newly released court documents indicate. After the June 17, 2015, attack that left nine black parishioners dead, Roof left Mother Emanuel, the name by which…