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Ariz. Trying to Ban Social-Justice Courses in State Schools. Guess Who This Targets?
Let’s start this off by reminding folks that Arizona was one of the last states in the nation to recognize the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday (and lest we forget, Republican Sen. John McCain voted against its recognition, too). Living up to that lovely legacy, Republican lawmakers in the state are now advocating legislation…
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Harlem’s Schomburg Center Designated a National Historic Landmark
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture was designated a national historic landmark this week. The site in central Harlem was among 24 places the U.S. Department of the Interior gave the honor to on Wednesday. The 91-year-old research library is named after black Puerto Rican Arturo Schomburg, a leading voice of the Harlem…
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Donald Trump to Mark MLK Day With Martin Luther King III Meeting
President-elect Donald Trump will reportedly mark the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by meeting with the namesake son of America’s most brilliant civil rights icon. As per usual, the meeting is to take place at New York City’s Trump Tower on Monday afternoon, where the incoming POTUS can control the narrative. A Trump spokesperson confirmed…
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Wells Fargo Rejects Baltimore Teacher’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ Debit Card
Like many others who bank at Wells Fargo, a Baltimore schoolteacher wanted to design her bank card with something she felt was important. But when that “thing” turned out to be Black Lives Matter, the bank balked. Rachel Nash, 29, sought to take her bank up on its offer to personalize her debit card and…
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Kamiyah Mobley Reunites With Birth Parents, Says She Still Loves the Woman Who Kidnapped Her
A young woman kidnapped in 1998 from a Florida hospital was reunited with her biological parents Saturday in South Carolina. Kamiyah Mobley, 18, spent 45 minutes with her birth parents, Craig Aiken and Shanara Mobley, at the Walterboro Police Department, where the woman who kidnapped her is being held. “I told her I was glad…
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Bishop Eddie Long Dies From an ‘Aggressive Cancer’ at 63
Bishop Eddie Long, the embattled pastor of Georgia megachurch New Birth Missionary Baptist, has died from an “aggressive form of cancer,” according to the church. He was 63 years old. New Birth issued a statement to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday confirming his death. Long made his last public appearance two weeks ago; the senior…
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D.L. Hughley to Donald Trump: ‘F–k You Now and F–k You Forever’
Comedian D.L. Hughley is letting President-elect Donald Trump know how he really feels in a Facebook Live video posted to his page Friday night. Hughley basically pulled a post-Katrina Kanye and said that Trump doesn’t care about black people. From the nomination of Alabama good ol’ boy Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to his racist Birtherism…
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Did Donald Trump Just Come for John Lewis During MLK Weekend?
As if he’s physically addicted to controversy (or attention), President-elect Donald Trump attacked civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) during the Martin Luther King Day weekend. And the fallout has exploded all over social media. The brouhaha started yesterday when Lewis, who actually organized with King and was brutally beaten by police in Selma,…
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Federal Eric Garner Probe Will Most Likely Be Resolved by Jeff Sessions
U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch will not complete the Justice Department’s investigation into the choke hold death of Eric Garner before she leaves office, according to a report released Friday. The federal civil rights probe was launched months after Garner’s July 2014 death on Staten Island in New York City, when he was placed in a…