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New Study and Anyone With a Brain: White People More Likely to Get Raises
A new study analyzing millions of data points about demographics, salary and employment characteristics uncovered a positively stunning revelation that every black person in America already knew: White people are far more likely than people of color to get the raises they ask for. PayScale, a software company that specializes in employment and salary data,…
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This Is America: Pennsylvania School Gifts Graduating 8th-Graders With Bulletproof School Accessories
Nationwide, graduations are an opportunity to reflect and savor accomplishments and to brightly anticipate the future. One Catholic school in Chadd’s Ford, Pa., in the spirit of preparing and protecting their graduating students, went a more macabre route: gifting eighth-graders with bulletproof inserts to help keep them safe in the event of a school shooter.…
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NYC Man Who Called Cops for Help and Was Instead Beaten Up Wins $3 Million
A 27-year-old Brooklynite was just trying to get help from the cops when he gave them a call. Instead, the New York City man was the one who was beaten to a pulp by three officers while his young son watched. On Friday, following a four-day trial and after five hours of deliberations, a federal…
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Michigan Woman Files Lawsuit Against Target After She Was Forced to Strip to Prove She Didn’t Steal Bikini
A Southfield, Mich., woman is accusing Target of racial profiling in a lawsuit that claims she was forced to strip in front of male employees to prove that she did not steal a bathing suit. According to Ashanea Davis, the humiliating incident occurred on May 22 at her local Target. Davis says she was trying…
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Texas Teen’s Story About Being Abducted and Assaulted by White Supremacists Was Not True, Police Say
After an investigation, Houston police have determined that a Texas 13-year-old’s story about being abducted and attacked by a group of five white men, who further threatened him, is not true. According to ABC 13, authorities found no evidence to support the claims made by 13-year-old Zavion Parker. Last month, the story sent police on…
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Arizona Mass Murderer Identified as Dwight Lamon Jones, Who Killed Half a Dozen People Connected to His Divorce: Report
The suspect behind a string of homicides in the Phoenix and Scottsdale areas of Arizona has been identified by authorities as Dwight Lamon Jones. According to reports, the 56-year-old was in the middle of a contentious eight-year divorce from his wife, and police believe that all six people killed were connected to the drawn-out proceedings…
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Mellody Hobson Will Become Starbucks’ No. 2 When Howard Schultz Steps Down
Well, looks like Starbucks is doing quite a bit more than Race Relations 101 for its employees after that Philadelphia debacle in April; the chain is actually placing a black woman in its leadership ranks. Mellody Hobson, currently president of Ariel Investments, which manages over $13 billion in assets, will become vice chair at Starbucks…
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Trump Disinvites Philadelphia Eagles From the White House, Allegedly Over National Anthem
Once again your president is using the lofty office of the executive branch to be the petty bitch that he obviously can’t help being. On Monday evening, the White House released a statement saying that the 2018 Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles are “unable” to come to the White House on Tuesday because of the national…
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Rutgers Professor Rails Against ‘Little Caucasian Assholes’ Gentrifying His Harlem Nabe, Even Though He’s ‘a White People’
A white Rutgers University professor went off on the entitled “little shithead” gentrifiers who have taken over his Harlem neighborhood (yes, you read that right). James Livingston wrote a Facebook rant on Thursday that was flagged and taken down by the social media platform after he went to Harlem Shake, a high-end burger joint half…
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Police Called on Oregon Senator After He’s Barred From Entering Immigration Detention Center
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) was hoping to visit with those being held in an immigration detention center in Texas; instead he was barred from entering and had the police called on him, and the whole encounter was recorded and posted to Facebook on Sunday. According to HuffPost: Merkley traveled to the facility in Brownsville,…