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A Tale of Two Churches: How the Notre Dame Cathedral Illustrates America's Unwillingness to Acknowledge Black Suffering
Police gun down so many black men, I can’t even recall which one is the impetus for this story. But a few years ago, after yet another one of us was mowed down in the street in cold blood, I arrived to my TV writers room in a less than pleasant mood. I was tired.…
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White People Don’t Live in Flint or Puerto Rico, So President Sends Aid to France
Five years have gone by, some 1,825 days, since the people of Flint, Mich., were doomed to a life with no clean water, with no clear end in sight. (Nestle just pledged to continue providing bottled water for the town at least through August of this year.) And it’s been more than 18 months since…
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Academic Scandal Forces Notre Dame Football Team to Vacate 2012, 2013 Wins
An academic scandal at the storied Notre Dame football team will put the team on probation; the team must also forfeit wins from the 2012 and 2013 seasons. According to WNDU, the trouble started after the university investigated claims that a student athletic adviser committed academic violations for several players, including giving six players prohibited…
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6 Notre Dame Football Players Face Disciplinary Action After Arrests
Notre Dame has started taking disciplinary action against the six football players who were arrested over the weekend in two separate incidents, officially dismissing starting safety Max Redfield and indefinitely suspending reserve cornerback Devin Butler, WSBT 22 reports. The four other remaining players are still on the team but will face internal discipline, the news…