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Watch: SAE Frat Mom Who Condemned Members’ Behavior Spouts N-Word
Just days after video emerged of members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racist chant, new footage has popped up that appears to show the fraternity’s housemother spouting the n-word repeatedly. On Monday the Oklahoma Daily, the student newspaper, published the Vine video, which appears to show Beauton Gilbow spouting…
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Miss. Sheriff Fired After Heated Xbox Rant: ‘I Get Paid to Beat Up N–gers Like You’
A Mississippi sheriff’s deputy is out of a job after authorities say he threatened another person online using racial slurs, the Clarion-Ledger reports. A man identified only as “David” on YouTube posted a video that shows an Xbox screen and reportedly provides audio of a conversation between him and then-Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Slater. David also…
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NYC Discount-Store Workers Sue for $2,000,000, Claim They Were Paid $2.27 an Hour
Fifteen people—most of them undocumented immigrants—who worked at a chain of discount stores in the Bronx and Queens in New York City filed a lawsuit against the owners, claiming that they were paid well below minimum wage at $2.27 an hour and routinely worked 11-hour days, six days a week, the New York Daily News…
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SAE, White Thugs and American Traditions
The Klansmen of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity have exposed to the world what many of us already know: Racism is part and parcel of white America’s most beloved traditions. By now, most people have read about SAE’s University of Oklahoma chapter and its little diddy about hanging “n—gers from trees.” There has, of course, been…
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Atlanta Garbage Man Sentenced to Jail for Picking Up Trash Too Early in Wealthy Neighborhood
Hearing a trash truck in the early-morning hours can certainly be annoying, but for one garbage collector, starting too early in an Atlanta suburb cost him 30 days behind bars. That’s right. Kevin McGill, 48, an Atlanta husband and father of two, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for collecting trash too early for…
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Wis. Police Chief Prayed With the Family of Unarmed Man Shot by Police
Having learned from the protests that engulfed Ferguson, Mo., after unarmed teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in August 2014, the police chief of Madison, Wis., immediately reached out to Tony Robinson’s family to express his condolences after the unarmed 19-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer late…
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Civil Rights Leader Diane Nash Refused to March at Selma Event Because of George W. Bush
Diane Nash, one of the main leaders and strategists during the civil rights movement, refused to march at the historic restaging of the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., this weekend because of the presence of former President George W. Bush, the Washington Post reports. Nash refused to join Bush and…
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Suspects Beat NYPD Cops During Arrest in Housing Project Stairwell
Two New York City police officers are recovering after being beaten up by a group of suspects whom they were trying to arrest in the stairwell of a housing project in the borough of Brooklyn, the New York Post reports. According to the report, the cops were patrolling the housing project early Sunday morning, searching…
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Watch: University of Oklahoma Frat Sings, ‘There Will Never Be a N–ger SAE’
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma has been suspended after a video hit social media late Sunday purportedly showing members of the fraternity singing a racist song that included the lines, “There will never be a n—ger SAE/There will never be a n—ger SAE/You can hang ’em from a tree, but…
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Men Kidnap, Torture Indianapolis Teens Whose Sister Stole Money From Drug Dealer: Report
Two Indianapolis teens were blindfolded, kidnapped and tortured after their older sister reportedly stole $120,000 in cash, some 4,000 OxyContin pills and a kilogram of cocaine from her allegedly drug-dealing boyfriend. According to the Indy Star, on March 2 around 2:30 a.m., three men with pistols kicked in the door of the teens’ family’s home,…