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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…
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American Civil Liberties Union Responds to Trump’s New Mass-Deportation Instructions
On Tuesday the Trump administration revealed its new guidelines for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in the United States and at the border, allowing federal authorities to take a more aggressive stance on illegal immigration, prompting a swift response from the American Civil Liberties Union. Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project,…
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DHS Secretary Signs Memos Empowering Authorities to More Aggressively Detain and Deport Immigrants
New guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport undocumented immigrants inside the United States and at the border were signed off on by Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and released Tuesday. NPR reports that the new rules align with the executive orders President Donald Trump issued in late January, calling…
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Chicago Cop With Long Complaint History Is Heading 1 of the Busiest West Side Districts
A little over a month after the U.S. Department of Justice released findings from a yearlong study that showed the Chicago Police Department has a problem with excessive violence, racial bias and shooting people who did not pose immediate threats, a new analysis of police records shows that a busy West Side district is under…
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‘Kill All N–gers’: Va. University Investigating Racist, Hate-Filled Video
A Virginia university has launched an investigation into a disgusting, hateful video that was posted to YouTube but has since been removed because of a violation of the video-sharing site’s standards. In the video, a woman can be seen wearing a Donald Trump mask; dancing to music that promotes lynching, white power and the Ku…
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Owner of Burger King, Tim Hortons to Buy Popeyes for $1,800,000,000
Restaurant Brands International Inc., the owner of Burger King and Tim Hortons fast-food chains, is expanding its reach and entering the fried-chicken business, purchasing Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen for $1.8 billion in cash. According to Reuters, the deal is a bet by the Canadian multinational fast-food company that it can use its international reach to introduce…