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In Every Service Branch, Black Troops More Likely to Be Punished by Commanders, Courts: Report
Black service members are up to two times more likely to face court-martial or other forms of military punishment than their white counterparts in an average year, an analysis by advocacy organization Protect Our Defenders has revealed. According to USA Today, which received an advance copy of the study, the advocacy group for victims of…
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2 White Men Assaulted Black Teen Near His Home in Campaign to Run Interracial Family Out of Va. Neighborhood: Lawsuit
A black teenager was called racial slurs and attacked by two white men near his home in Virginia as part of an effort to run his interracial family out of town, a federal lawsuit claims. Yes, this is in 2017. Well, to be precise, the attack occurred in 2015. The men involved in the attack…
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Flint, Mich., Official Resigns After Being Caught on Tape Blaming Water Crisis on ‘Niggers’ Who ‘Don’t Pay Their Bills’
A Flint, Mich., official has tendered his resignation after water activists recorded him using a racial slur and racially charged stereotypes as he pointed blame for the city’s water crisis. Phil Stair, the sales manager of the Genessee County Land Bank, handed in his resignation after being recorded blaming the city’s water crisis on “fucking…
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Racist Bullies at Texas Middle School Called Black Girl an Ape, Pretended to Whip Her Like a Slave, but School Does Nothing, Father Says
The father of a 12-year-old girl who is being targeted by racist bullies is speaking out after he said that the school did not properly discipline the students involved in the hurtful and hateful attacks. According to a written report from the school, the Austin American-Statesman reports, one girl at Tippit Middle School in Georgetown,…
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Colo. Woman Is Being Terrorized by Racist Notes Slipped Under Her Door, but Apartment Complex Refuses to Let Her Break Lease
A dumb lease is more important than helping a woman who is being terrorized by some asshole slipping racist notes under her door and knocking on her door and running away. At least that’s what one Colorado resident is apparently going through because her apartment complex is reportedly refusing to allow her to break her…
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Black Leaders in Ariz. Push for Removal of State’s Confederate Monuments
African-American leaders in Arizona are the next to call for the swift removal of the state’s Confederate monuments, joining an overall cry across the nation by those who know that the monuments celebrate slavery and racism and, generally, just the wrong side of history. The battle against Confederate symbols and memorials was brought to the…
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Racial Tensions Escalate on Campus of Public University in Washington State
A week of protests and racial tension on the campus of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., ended with the college being closed for the second day in a row Friday, after county officials received a phone call Thursday from someone threatening to be armed and headed to the campus. As the Washington Post reports,…
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Calif. High Schooler Uses Blackface for ‘Promposal’ 1 Month After Another Student Used a Lynching Reference
It seems that the ghost of promposals is still haunting us, and while a lot of high school students are guilty of doing the utmost, two students at the same California high school went way too far by using blackface and lynching references in their own promposals. Fact: It’s never cute to be racist when…
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Birmingham, Mich., School District Launches Investigation After Parents, Kids, Speak Out Against Blatant Racism in School
Parents and children are speaking out against the blatant racism that some kids are allegedly facing at a school within Michigan’s Birmingham School District, demanding answers for the uncalled-for behavior exhibited by other students, as well as punishment. According to WXYZ, one parent, Maia Nelson, has said that she has told the school, Berkshire Middle…
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Muslim Groups Unite, Raise More Than $500,000 for Families of the 3 Portland, Ore., Heroes
Two Muslim nonprofit organizations have come together and raised more than $500,000 in about four days for the families of the Portland, Ore., heroes who were violently attacked while defending two young women from a raging white supremacist yelling anti-Muslim insults. Last Friday, the two girls were verbally attacked by Jeremy Joseph Christian while riding…