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Watch: White Dude Gets Big Mad at People Speaking Spanish in Front of His Salad, Threatens to Call ICE
Consider this a variation on a theme. Internet sleuths are trying to track down a white man caught on video ranting about people speaking Spanish at a New York City lunch spot. The viral video, which has garnered over a million views since being posted Tuesday afternoon, shows the man threatening to call Immigration and…
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Couple Who Survived Charlottesville, Va., Attack Get Dream Wedding and Honor Heather Heyer
Everyone recalls that disaster of a Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Va., last year, when a raging white supremacist used the tried-and-true terror tactic of driving a moving vehicle into a crowd of people, throwing one person up into the air and eventually killing another. What many may not know is that the man…
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25-Year-Old Posed as Hurricane Harvey Evacuee, Attended Dallas High School for Over a Year as a Freshman
Being displaced because of a hurricane is no laughing matter, let alone something to wrongly benefit from, yet apparently, one 25-year-old man thought it would be a grand idea to pose as a Hurricane Harvey victim and then enroll as a freshman at a Dallas high school. According to USA Today, Sidney Bouvier Gilstrap-Portley was…
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Pastor Fights Megachurch Gentrification With Sign Telling Black Folks to ‘Stay Out of White Churches’
In a Birmingham, Ala., controversy involving the mayor, a black church, gentrification and a white megachurch, an Alabama pastor is being accused of reverse racism after displaying a sign in front of his church that says, “White folks refused to be our neighbors.” New Era Baptist Church is located in the West End section of…
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Spelman Makes History After Graduating Its 1st Openly Transgender Male Student
Spelman College is undoubtedly one of the finest HBCUs—because of academics, yes, but also because it remains ahead of the curve in eschewing the conservative dictates that plague many black institutions of higher learning. Last fall, the private liberal arts college for women announced that it would admit transgender women as students starting in the…
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The Meeting Between Kim Jong Un and Trump Is About As Likely as a Full-Member New Edition Reunion Tour
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is about as stable as a Fabergé egg balancing on a toothpick that’s attached to the back of a cat that suffers from ADHD and hasn’t taken its medication but has just seen a mouse dart across the room. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is a egomaniacal, microwaved bag of…
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White Hobby Lobby Manager Calls Police on Black Customer for #ShoppingWhileBlack
Another day, another white person siccing the police on an innocent black person. In today’s news that sounds a lot like yesterday’s news, an employee at an Alabama Hobby Lobby called the local authorities to report that a black man was in the store committing the crime of … well … no one seems to…
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Your Girl Candace Owens Ran a Trump-Bashing Website Less Than 2 Years Ago. Color Us Shocked
A recent report from BuzzFeed sheds new light on Candace Owens, the melanated darling du jour of the “Make America great again” crowd, revealing that the rising conservative star ran a blog that frequently mocked Donald Trump throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. Among the stories that ran on the site: A critical look at Trump’s…
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#ShoppingWhileBlack: California Woman Accuses Macy’s of Racial Profiling After Being Accused of Stealing
Another day, another shakedown just for being black. At least that’s what Conteh Moore believes she experienced while shopping at Macy’s in the Westfield Oakridge Mall in San Jose, Calif. According to NBC Bay Area, Moore was browsing the Macy’s on May 8 when a sales associate accused her of stealing a bottle of cologne.…