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Ga. Teacher Allegedly Tells Students Their Parents Are Evil if They Voted for Obama; NAACP Wants Her Fired
A Georgia schoolteacher may soon find herself unemployed if the efforts of a local NAACP are successful, according to 13WMAZ. Nancy Perry, a teacher at Dublin Middle School, according to 41NBC, allegedly told her students last month that if their parents voted for President Barack Obama, “they’re evil,” and she doesn’t understand how they could…
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Baltimore Councilman to CNN Host: ‘Just Call Them N–gers’
Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes clashed with CNN’s Erin Burnett Tuesday evening after Burnett asked if “thugs” was not the appropriate word to use when describing the “bad actors” of the Baltimore protests. Burnett pointed out that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and President Barack Obama also used the word to describe the individuals involved in…
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Mom Who Dragged Son Out of Baltimore Protest: ‘I Don’t Want Him to Be a Freddie Gray’
Toya Graham is a single mother raising six children, including a 16-year-old son, Michael, in Baltimore. She wasn’t looking to go viral when she walked outside and pulled her son out of protests Monday; she was looking to save his life. “He gave me eye contact. And at that point, you know, not even thinking…
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Baltimore Streets Quiet After 1st Day of Curfew
On Tuesday evening around 10 p.m., the first day of a citywide curfew, only dozens of Baltimore protesters were in the streets, in stark contrast to the hundreds who demonstrated Monday night. Police fired tear gas canisters at some demonstrators who continued to defy orders to leave, and by midnight, 10 people had been arrested.…
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Former Black Panther Paul Coates Remembers Charm City, Circa 1968
More than 100 cities, including Baltimore, caught fire when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. That year saw the fourth straight “long, hot summer”—the fourth time black communities had erupted in major American cities, with police brutality and poverty as the front-and-center issues. With mainstream media recalling 1968’s rebellions in light of Monday’s…
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Nigeria’s Military: We’ve Rescued Nearly 300 Women and Girls Abducted by Boko Haram
Nigeria’s military tweeted Tuesday, announcing that it had rescued approximately 300 women and girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram. Although the rescue occurred, it is not certain if the nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist group last April were among those rescued, CNN reports. A military representative said that the rescued victims…
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There Is Truth Behind the Anger in Baltimore
Baltimore is not a think piece. Not every action in a riot is a metaphor. Freddie Gray’s back is really broken and he is actually dead. As the city variously rests and burns, lots of smart folks have glossed over these facts. Most of us have the luxury of not living in the city today,…
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Shooting at NYC Funeral Leaves 2 Dead and 6 Wounded
As people poured out of a Brooklyn, N.Y., funeral home after a service Monday evening, three gunmen drove by and fired shots into the crowd, killing two people and injuring six, the New York Daily News reports. The funeral service was held for 39-year-old Jose Luis Robles, who died of natural causes. The assailants began…
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Baltimore Gangs: We United to Protest Freddie Gray’s Killing, Not to Kill Cops
Baltimore gang members are telling local media outlets not to believe a word from police officials who said that gangs like the Bloods, the Crips and the Black Guerrilla Family have called a truce among one another so that they can unite to kill white police officers, Raw Story reported, via WBAL-TV. Hundreds of…
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Brazilian Transgender Woman’s Face Is Severely Beaten and Mutilated While She’s in Police Custody
Veronica Bolina—a 25-year-old transgender woman in Brazil who was arrested for allegedly attacking her 73-year-old neighbor—was beaten beyond recognition while in jail, the Daily Mail reports. In photos that have circulated online, Bolina’s eyes are swollen shut, her face is puffed out and deformed, and her lips are swollen. There are also several lacerations on her…