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House Employment Counsel Staff Share Stories of Abuse in the Workplace: White Manager Displayed Whip to ‘Motivate the Black Employees’
As stories of sexual harassment in the workplace have been circulated as part of the powerful #MeToo movement, it has exposed how virulent the issue is across the nation and across all job sectors. It would only make sense, then, for a congressional hearing to be held on the issue. During such a hearing Thursday,…
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Black ICE Agent Accuses New Mexico Sheriff’s Department of Racial Profiling After Being Pulled Over Multiple Times
It’s a clash of law enforcement agencies. A black female Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is pointing the finger at a New Mexico police department, accusing officers of racial profiling after she was pulled over several times by sheriff’s deputies for no apparent reason. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico filed the lawsuit…
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Grand Jury Indicts Georgia Men on Murder Charges in Racially Motivated 1983 Killing
Two white men are set to head to trial after a grand jury indicted them on multiple counts, including felony murder, in relation to the 1983 killing of a young black man. The grand jury came to its decision Tuesday, indicting Franklin Gebhardt and William Moore Sr. on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault and…
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Tennessee High School Students Stage Walkout After Racist Messages That Reference ‘Stringing Up’ Black Students
Students at Haywood High School in Brownsville, Tenn., staged a walkout on Monday after it became public knowledge that black students were the target of racist threats made by other students. WREG-TV reports that a student at the school contacted the news station and detailed how members of the baseball team posted threatening, horrible messages…
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‘Happily Gentrifying Since 2014’: Colorado Coffee Shop Puts Up Ridiculous Sign, and I’ll Give You 1 Guess as to What Happened
There are so many, so many cute memes and other coffee-based quips out there in the universe, but out of all of these options, one Denver coffeehouse chain decided that it would be cute to make a funny about gentrification over the Thanksgiving holidays. “Happily Gentrifying the Neighborhood Since 2014,” one side of the sidewalk…
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Ohio Man Harassed, Threatened Elderly Black Neighbor, Encouraged 4-Year-Old Son to Call the 70-Year-Old Racial Slurs
There are assholes, there are monumental assholes, and then there are people like this Cleveland man who was arrested after harassing his elderly black neighbor while using racial slurs, and encouraging his 4-year-old son to call the woman the n-word. According to Cleveland.com, Keirian Kelly also threatened to stab the woman multiple times over a…
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‘We’re Not a Racist Department’: North Carolina Firefighters Complain After County Cuts Funding Over Confederate Flag
If you’re gonna talk the talk, you’re gonna have to walk the walk. At least that’s what the Montgomery County, N.C., decided after a group of local firefighters refused to remove a Confederate flag from fire station property. According to 11 Alive, the Uwharrie Volunteer Fire Department has been proudly flying the flag of losers…
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19-Year-Old Thug, Accused of Racist Attack on Black Cornell University Student, Charged With Hate Crime
A white Cornell University student has now been slapped with a hate crime charge in connection with a September assault on a black classmate. According to the Associated Press, the Tompkins County, N.Y., District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that it added the new count to 19-year-old John Greenwood’s growing list of charges. Greenwood also faces…
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NYC Restaurant Worker Employee Fired After Telling Customers That ‘Everybody’ Knows the Manager Is Racist
A Brooklyn, N.Y., restaurant employee is out of a job after she was caught on video telling customers that “everybody” knows the manager is racist before kicking them out of the eatery. Viral video from the scene at Dumbo Kitchen was posted to Instagram on Sunday and quickly went viral. Jypsy Jeyfree wrote in the…
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It’s Time to Reclaim ‘Identity Politics’
It’s tempting to write off critiques of identity politics the same way you would ironic tattoos or Taylor Swift as a “white-people thing,” but the term has become so hotly debated and so misunderstood that an increasing number of young people of color feel put off by it. Recently, one Bernie Sanders supporter, provoked by…