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Philando Castile’s Legacy of Helping His Students Pay for Their Lunches Lives On
Philando Castile was known as a caring man at the St. Paul, Minn., school where he worked as a cafeteria supervisor. He cared so much for the children he served that he often paid for their lunches himself when they were unable to, and now, thanks to a local college professor, that generosity will continue…
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Omarosa Made an Appearance at NABJ and That Shit Did Not Go Over Well
White House Negress token black woman director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault was added as a last-minute addition to a Friday panel discussing police brutality at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans. Her announced appearance apparently created an uproar among black journalists attending the event. Page…
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Minn. Police Training Fund Won’t Be Named After Philando Castile After All Because That Would Be Too Much Like Right
In an 8-2 vote on Thursday, the Minnesota peace officer training board declined to name a police training fund after Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man shot and killed by police last year for … driving while black. As reported by The Root, on the one-year anniversary of Castile’s shooting death at the hands of…
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Oh, Look: NRA Spokeswoman Finally Had Something to Say About Philando Castile’s Shooting Death
It’s been some three-and-a-half weeks since a jury acquitted a St. Anthony, Minn., police officer in the death of permit-to-carry gun owner Philando Castile in a case that enraged the nation. But now that all the drama has unfolded and there is nothing else to be said or done, a National Rifle Association spokeswoman has…
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#PhilandoCastile: Killer Cop Receives $48,500 Buyout to Leave St. Anthony, Minn., Police Department
Just three weeks after he was acquitted of all charges connected to the shooting death of Philando Castile, St. Anthony, Minn., Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez signed a separation agreement with the city Monday to leave the department in exchange for $48,500. A statement posted to the city’s website reads: In order to serve the public…
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Philando Castile, the War on Drugs and the Lynching of Black Humanity [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Minn. Governor Wants to Name Police Training Fund After Philando Castile
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of Philando Castile’s shooting death at the hands of St. Anthony, Minn., Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton marked the occasion by recommending that the state’s Police Officer Standards and Training Board be named after Castile. The $12 million fund, which was approved by the Legislature earlier this…
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Philando Castile Settlement Shows White America Willingly Pays for White Supremacy
White America has always shown a willingness and a boundless patience when it comes to paying for white supremacy. Not in the moral sense or the spiritual sense or the greater-good-for-mankind sense, but in the actual dollars-and-cents sense. Racial discrimination is actually rather expensive and has been throughout time. Slavery was expensive and borderline inefficient,…
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City of St. Anthony, Minn., Reaches $3,000,000 Settlement With Family of Philando Castile
The city of St. Anthony, Minn., will avoid a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Philando Castile’s family in the wake of his 2016 shooting death by paying out nearly $3 million to his family. According to the Associated Press, Castile’s mother is set to receive the $2.995 million as settlement in Castile’s death at the…