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Pope Francis paid homage to Martin Luther King Jr. and his iconic march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama, quoting the civil rights leader while addressing a joint session of Congress Thursday at the U.S. Capitol.  “I think of the march which Martin Luther King led from Selma to Montgomery 50 years ago as part…

The superintendent of the Northside Independent School District has confirmed that John Jay High School secondary coach Mack Breed is “no longer an employee of the school district,” following accusations that the coach ordered a hit on a referee during one of the games, Reuters reports.  “Coach Breed made verbal statements after the game to…

Things escalated quickly at a Florida Publix grocery store after a customer was allegedly rude and used racial slurs toward a deli worker while ordering dinner during the Sept. 16 incident, WFLA reports.  According to the report, 59-year-old Raleigh Harris was ordering a chicken-wings dinner at a Temple Terrace Publix store when he was allegedly…

The principal of John Jay High School is saying that the Texas school’s secondary football coach, Mack Breed, acknowledged that he was the one behind a players-on-referee attack as revenge for the referee’s alleged racist comments, the New York Daily News reports.  Breed reportedly confessed to Principal Robert Harris that he instructed two of the players…

While Ben Carson got some public backlash for his anti-Muslim comments, in which he opined that he “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” it seems as if he garnered some like-minded supporters as well, with an influx of donations boosting the super PAC that supports his candidacy, the…

One Butler County, Ohio, sheriff’s deputy offered a helping hand to a homeless family who were stranded in the Butler County jail’s lobby over the weekend, paying for a hotel for two days as well as clothes, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.  According to the report, Deputy Brian Bussell saw the woman with her two children…

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama officially welcomed Pope Francis during an arrival ceremony held on the South Lawn of the White House. According to the White House, the crowd joining the president in welcoming the iconic religious figure totaled some 11,000 ticketed guests, not counting staff, military, press or other members…

A Utah mother is saying that her teenage daughter is being “racially profiled” at her high school for being white and having dreadlocks, which the teen reportedly wears for religious reasons, Fox 13 reports.  “My daughter is white and there happens to be other kids in the school who happen to be other race and…