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National Urban League’s 2018 ‘State of Black America’: Tech Companies Don’t Care About Employing Black People
After listing wage inequality, housing discrimination and the education gap, feel free to add “digital inequality” to the long checklist of disparities in America. The National Urban League’s 2018 “State of Black America” report reveals that there is still some work to be done in the country’s technological sector. This year’s report uses its patented…
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New York’s Long Island Rail Road Investigating Racist White Man’s Rant
Another day, another racist white man kirking out in public. This time it happened on New York’s Long Island Rail Road commuter train, and the unidentified white man had a few unkind words for a black passenger. Although the incident happened April 19, video of the encounter only made its way to social media this…
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Black Woman Says Air Canada Treated Her Like an Animal, Forced Her Off Flight Because of Noncontagious Shingles
A black woman from Edmonton, Canada, says that she was treated like an animal and removed from an Air Canada flight from Halifax because they thought she had a contagious disease. But according to Jeanne Lehman, after she received medication for the shingles she’d been diagnosed with days before, her doctor said she wasn’t contagious.…
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Indiana Day Care Shut Down After Brutal Attack on 1-Year-Old
An Indiana day care has been shut down after allegations of abuse against a 1-year-old. The little boy was severely beaten, bruised and left with a swollen lip within hours of being dropped off by his mother, prompting police to launch an investigation into the center. Tiffany Griffin dropped off her two sons at Kiddiegarden…
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IHOP Customer Called the N-Word on Receipt Receives $10 Gift Card as Apology
Nineteen-year-old Maya Thomas got a little more than what she bargained for recently when she picked up her to-go order from an IHOP in Grandview, Mo. After Thomas looked at her receipt, she noticed it was labeled “nigga.” The incident took place in April, according to the Kansas City Star, but what further upset Thomas…
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Miami Police Officer Suspended After Kicking Suspect in the Head
A Miami police officer has been suspended with pay after a Miami resident filmed him kicking a man who was already in handcuffs in the head. The incident, video of which was posted on Facebook, took place at the Culmer Place Apartments in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. The officer, identified as Mario Figueroa, is a two-year…
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Transgender Woman Says She Was Raped at Colorado Men’s Prison
A transgender woman who is currently suing the Colorado Department of Corrections says she was raped in a men’s prison just hours after a federal judge denied her request to stop the prison from keeping her in a disciplinary unit. In July, Lindsay Saunders-Velez, 20, filed a lawsuit calling Colorado’s prisons “discriminatory and dangerous” for…
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Alex Michael Ramos Found Guilty of Malicious Wounding in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage Beating of DeAndre Harris
White supremacist Alex Michael Ramos has been found guilty of malicious wounding in the August parking lot beating of DeAndre Harris in Charlottesville, Va. According to WVIR-TV, Ramos, who now faces five to 20 years in prison, was one of several men who were identified thanks to social media during the Unite the Right rally…
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Feds Tapped Longtime Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen’s Phone Weeks Before Raid: Report
President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen’s phones were tapped weeks before federal investigators executed a search warrant on his office. According to several reports, Cohen, who rose to national infamy after making a reported $130,000 payment to prevent porn actress Stormy Daniels from giving the details surrounding her alleged affair with Trump, had…