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8,000 Starbucks Stores Shut Down Today for 4-Hour Nap … I Mean Anti-Bias Training
Some may say it’s too little, too latte, as 8,000 Starbucks prepare to shut down Tuesday for anti-bias training. About 175,000 Starbucks employees will attend the anti-bias training on the heels of the coffee chain facing backlash after two black men were arrested for sitting in a store without ordering right away. But what will…
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White Man, Furious That Jack in the Box Employee Wouldn’t Accept Coupon for Free Burger, Threatens to Send Her ‘Back to Mexico’
Today in white bros doing racist shit, a furious customer at a Texas Jack in the Box restaurant was caught on video threatening to send a female employee “back to Mexico” because she declined to accept his coupon for a free burger. According to an eyewitness, the white man apparently couldn’t deal with the fact…
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Grocery Store Cashier Shames Woman on WIC, Won’t Allow Customer to Help Pay: ‘They Keep Getting Handouts’
A woman at an Albertsons store in Gresham, Ore., attempted to help out a fellow shopper when she came up short at the register. But according to Jacki Carroll, a white woman, the cashier refused to let her help the African-American woman who was using WIC (federal food stamp benefits specifically earmarked for women, infants…
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Army National Guardsman Missing After Massive Flooding Hits Ellicott City, Md.
A 39-year-old Maryland man is missing after a flash flood hit Ellicott City, Md., on Sunday night. Eddison Alexander Hermond, a member of the Army National Guard, was reported missing at 12:30 a.m. Monday, according to a Howard County, Md., spokesperson. There is an active search for Hermond, who is from Severn, Md. He was…
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Malian Immigrant Gets French Citizenship After Saving Child Dangling From Balcony
Mamoudou Gassama, an undocumented migrant to France from Mali, is being hailed as a hero after climbing a building to save a 4-year-old boy dangling from a fourth-floor balcony in Paris on Saturday. For his spectacular bravery, the 22-year-old is being made a French citizen and has been offered a job with the Paris fire…
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Serena Williams’ Ranking Falls to No. 453 in the World After She Has a Baby, Smacking of Sexism
Serena Williams, the 23-time grand-slam champion, and possibly the greatest athlete of all time, was ranked No. 1 in the world before she left her job to give birth and nurture her daughter, Alexis Olympia, as well as recover from a pulmonary embolism. Williams, who was away from tennis for 14 months, currently has a…
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4 Maryland High Schoolers Charged With Hate Crimes After Spray-Painting Racist Graffiti Targeting Black Principal
Alas, the white kids behaving racistly goes on. Last week, four teens were charged with hate crimes after they spray-painted the n-word, swastikas, genitalia and anti-LGBTQ slurs all over a Howard County, Md., high school and targeted the school’s African-American principal specifically. The Baltimore Sun reports that police arrested Seth Taylor, 18; Tyler Curtiss, 18;…
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Oakland, Calif., Police Confirm Identity of Cookout Hater Who Blocked Us [Updated]
Updated: Sunday, May 27, 2018, 8 a.m. EDT: The official Oakland, Calif., police log from the Lake Merritt incident has been released, and it has identified Jennifer Schulte as the woman who called to complain about the people barbecuing. The log shows that Schulte also lied about being pushed by the woman filming the incident,…
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Trump to Naval Academy Grads: ‘Our Ancestors Tamed a Continent’
I don’t know whose “ancestors” Donald Trump was referring to when he said that they “tamed a continent,” but certainly not mine—nor those of the other hundreds of millions of Americans whose ancestry is not European (pdf). On Friday at a Naval Academy commencement address, your president gleefully proclaimed that “our ancestors tamed a continent,” adding…