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TSA to Conduct Anti-Discrimination Training to Avoid Hair-Based Racial Profiling: Report
Two black women filed a complaint with the Transportation Security Administration claiming that their sisterlocks made them targets for TSA agents at airports. Now, they say, their complaint has prompted the agency to put measures in place to stop the singling out of women based on hairstyles, Raw Story reports. It all started when Malaika…
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Detroit Mom Forced Children to Put Sister’s Body in Freezer: Report
On Tuesday a Detroit mother was arrested shortly after authorities serving an eviction notice found the bodies of two of her four children in a freezer. On Thursday the Detroit Free Press reported that the mother tortured the children before killing them and reportedly had her surviving children place their 13-year-old sister’s body in the…
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Ga. Uber Driver Is Assaulted and Called the N-Word by a College Lecturer
Chiddi Stober, a Georgia history teacher who works as an Uber driver part time, says that he was assaulted and called the n-word by a passenger who works as a lecturer at a local state university, WSBTV reports. Stober said the ride began normally. He picked up the passenger—whose name is being withheld because he…
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UVA Student Martese Johnson Makes 1st Court Appearance Since Bloody Encounter With Authorities
Images of University of Virginia honor student Martese Johnson’s bloody face went viral shortly after his encounter with Alcoholic Beverage Control officers outside a Charlottesville, Va., bar March 18. Johnson’s arrest and disturbing images of him lying prone on the ground made national news, and on Thursday the 20-year-old Chicago native made his first court…
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Co-Pilot’s Intention in Germanwings Crash Was to Destroy Plane: Report
After listening to the final horrifying minutes of Flight 9525 on Tuesday, heard on its black-box voice recorder, French investigators have concluded that the Germanwings jet co-pilot locked himself in the cockpit and intentionally crashed the plane “full speed into the French Alps, ignoring the captain’s frantic pounding on the cockpit door,” the Associated Press…
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SAE Frat Member Apologizes for Singing Racist Song
Surrounded by black leaders and clergy at an Oklahoma City church on Wednesday, Levi Pettit, the 20-year-old former University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity member, apologized for his part in a racist sing-along that went viral after it was caught on video. “There are no excuses for my behavior. I never thought of myself…
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Okla. Civil Rights Activist Nancy Randolph Davis Dead at 88
Civil rights pioneer Nancy Randolph Davis, the first African American to enroll in Oklahoma State University, has died at the age of 88, officials confirmed Wednesday, according to Raw Story. “She was a soldier and a pioneer for civil rights. She worked to make the world a better place for everyone,” Garland Pruitt, president of…
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Mich. Man Beaten and Tased During Traffic Stop Caught on Dash Cam
Something was off from the beginning of the traffic stop when two Inkster, Mich., police officers approached Floyd Dent’s car with guns already drawn. According to Dent, 57, when he was stopped on Jan. 28, officers dragged him out of his car, choked him, beat him, used a stun gun on him and planted drugs…
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NYC 8th-Grade Fight Club Assaults 1st-Grader
Latoya Gore, a New York City mother, has filed paperwork in court to get the city’s Department of Education to release video footage that shows a bunch of eighth-graders assaulting her 7-year-old daughter, the New York Daily News reports. Gore says that when her daughter, Taniya Jules, defied the girls’ orders by not joining a…
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Mich. Woman Shot Up McDonald’s Drive-Thru After Botched Bacon Order
A Michigan jury found Shaneka Torres guilty of shooting up a McDonald’s drive-thru window because employees at the fast-food chain twice forgot to add bacon to her cheeseburger order, the New York Daily News reports. Both encounters happened on the same day in February 2014, when Torres placed an order for a cheeseburger with bacon.…