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Black Woman Who Faced Up to 19 Months in Prison for Voting While on Probation Now Facing More Charges
There is something especially cruel and nefarious about the willingness of legal officials to take a person’s freedom away just for voting when they weren’t supposed to be. A 32-year-old Black woman in North Carolina was charged with a felony in 2016 for voting while on probation for another crime. She said she was unaware…
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Black Firefighters in North Carolina Protest Systemic Racism, Demand Fire Chief Resign
OMNIBUS, an organization of Black firefighters in Winston-Salem, N.C., is fighting to change decades of institutional racism within their fire department. Fox 8 reports that the group, along with representatives from Emancipate NC, Hate Out of Winston and several other organizations, gathered outside of station 1 in Winston-Salem to demand that the fire chief and…
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A Liberal North Carolina Town Has Unanimously Voted to Give Its Black Residents Reparations
Phew, 2020 sure is something different. In a unanimous decision, Asheville, N.C.’s City Council has voted to give reparations to its Black residents. The historic 7-0 vote was reached on Tuesday night, reports the Citizen Times, a USA Today affiliate. The measure comes with a public apology for the city’s participation in enslaving Africans and…
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Interracial Family in Raleigh Says They Received Racist Letter From Neighbors [Updated]
Speaking from experience, living in predominantly white neighborhoods can be a mixed bag. On one hand, it’s typically a sign of upward mobility, but on the other hand, having to deal with microaggressions and passive-aggressive racism is fairly common. An interracial family based in Raleigh, N.C. can sadly speak to this truth after they say…
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3 NC Police Officers Fired After ‘Accidental’ Recording Catches Them Fantasizing About Killing Black People
Surely, there are good cops. White people keep telling us about them and about their blue lives mattering, so they must exist. Still, with so many recordings surfacing where bad cops can be seen and heard doing and saying bad things, one can’t help but imagine how much cop malfeasance goes on when they’re not…
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Of Course, the GOP Convention Is Heading to the End of America’s Digestive Tract
Florida is the asshole of America. So it is fitting that the gathering of assholes may happen in the one place that is so strange that it is a game to look up “Florida man” and your birthday to see what ridiculous crime you land on. I’m “Thong-wearing Florida man arrested while building shed with…
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Off-Duty Cop Among Mob in North Carolina That Forced Its Way Into Black Woman's Home
A group of white people armed with weapons demanded entry into the home of a black woman and her son in Pender County, N.C., late last Sunday night and refused to leave. Reportedly leading the group was a member of the New Hanover Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Jordan Kita, who was armed and in uniform during…
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Jerry Krause is the Anti-Christ, and Other Takeaways From the First Night of ESPN's Docuseries The Last Dance
If you’re black and among the living, there were two events that demanded your attention this past weekend: the much-anticipated Teddy Riley vs. Babyface battle and the network premiere of ESPN’s The Last Dance, a 10-part documentary that explores Michael Jordan’s final season with the Chicago Bulls. While one of these had a striking resemblance…
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NC A&T Police Officers on Leave After Forcefully Arresting Student for Not Trespassing
Two police officers at a historically black college in North Carolina have been placed on administrative leave after they were caught on camera forcefully arresting a student leader who committed the dangerous crime of being exactly where he was supposed to be. Around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University (N.C. A&T)…
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North Carolina's Latest Scheme to Suppress Black Votes Gets Shut Down in Court
Because it’s 2020 and racism is still alive and well, we have North Carolina, whose new voter identification law just hit a snag—and by snag, I mean it’s apparently sorta-kinda racist. From Reuters: A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday blocked the state’s voter identification law from going into effect, finding it was a discriminatory…