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SC Removes Confederate Flag From Statehouse Grounds to Cheers of ‘Take It Down!’
After much debate and intense pressure put on lawmakers since the June 17 Charleston, S.C., church massacre, a decadeslong fight over the Confederate flag came to an end Friday as two honor guard members removed the controversial symbol from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds in Columbia, causing the gathered crowd to erupt into cheers. According…
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Group Petitions for Bill Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom to Be Revoked
Bill Cosby is the very opposite of the man of the hour at this point. As more companies pull support and distance themselves from the embattled TV dad in light of unsealed court documents in which Cosby admitted to buying drugs for women for the purpose of sex, a sexual-violence awareness group is now petitioning…
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South Sudanese Model Rips ‘Racist’ Fashion Industry
Nykhor Paul—a South Sudanese model who has graced the campaigns of Calvin Klein, Balenciaga, Diane von Furstenburg and the like—took to Instagram Monday to give the fashion industry a piece of her mind about the “ratchet” ways in which dark-brown models are treated in the industry. Paul made it very clear to whom she was directing her…
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Watch: Philly Cops Caught on Tape Beating, Kicking Unarmed Black Man During Arrest
Disturbing video of a Philadelphia man whose family says he was violently beaten, kicked and tased by at least a dozen officers has gone viral and prompted internal affairs to open an investigation. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, police stopped Tyree Carroll, 22, on April 4, and the encounter was captured by Los Angeles-based…
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Memphis, Tenn., Votes to Exhume Body of Confederate General, KKK Leader Buried in City Park
Memphis, Tenn., city leaders unanimously voted on Tuesday night to exhume the body of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader who is buried in the city’s Health Sciences Park, and move him to a private cemetery, Fusion reports. According to the report, the City Council also voted to move…
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SC Legislature Passes Bill to Take Confederate Flag Off Statehouse Grounds
The Confederate flag that flies on South Carolina Statehouse grounds is one signature away from being removed after the state House of Representatives passed its final vote on the measure early Thursday morning, Reuters reports. According to the report, state representatives, on their third and final vote, passed the measure with a sweeping 94-20 vote…
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Watch: The Philanthropist Who Built Over 5,000 Schools for Black Students in the Jim Crow South
In the trailer for the documentary Rosenwald, civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) describes the type of school he went to as a child. “It was a little school a short distance from my home—walking distance. Beautiful little building. It was a Rosenwald school. It was the only school we had,” Lewis said.…
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Union Blasts Baltimore Police Commanders as Conflict Over #BaltimoreUprisings Continues
On Wednesday, Baltimore’s Fraternal Order of Police released its “after action” review regarding the Baltimore uprisings in April in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. The report’s overview states that “the rioting resulted in millions of dollars in property damages and injuries to citizens,” and that reportedly more than…
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Autistic Teen Beaten by Cops in Front of His NYC Home for No Reason, Lawsuit Claims
An autistic teen’s family has filed a lawsuit against New York City alleging that police beat and arrested the then-17-year-old for no reason and then, without explanation, released him. According to the New York Post, two cops drove up and asked Troy Canales, now 18, what was he doing as he stood in front of…
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Donald Trump Says He’ll ‘Win the Latino Vote’
Not only did Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump say that he had “nothing to apologize for” in characterizing Mexican immigrants as rapists who are bringing their crime to the U.S., but the real estate tycoon predicts that his jobs program will lure Hispanics back to his corner come Election Day. “I’ll win the Latino vote…