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Over $200,000 Raised to Repair Black Miss. Church Burned, Vandalized With 'Vote Trump'
A GoFundMe campaign set up to help repair the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., which was set on fire earlier this week and marked with “Vote Trump” written in graffiti, has raised $201,823 as of Friday morning, exceeding its original $10,000 goal. Some 5,755 people contributed money toward the cause. About 80 percent…
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'KKK' Marked Across Black Sheriff Candidate's Sign in Kan.
LeRoy McConico, who is running as a Democratic candidate for sheriff in Linn County, Kan., has had issues with people messing with his campaign signs. However, earlier this week, he discovered that one of his campaign signs had been vandalized with white lettering that said “KKK,” the first time he’d ever seen something this blatant, the Kansas…
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Miss. Black Church Burned, Vandalized With Words ‘Vote Trump’
A Greenville, Miss., black church was burned and vandalized Tuesday night, Mississippi News Now reports. According to the report, authorities responded to a call about a church burning after 11 p.m. The Hopewell M.B. Church was found burned and also vandalized, with the words “Vote Trump” spray-painted in white on the outside of the building.…
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KKK's Official Newspaper Backs Trump; Trump Campaign Rejects Support
The Crusader, the official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan, has announced its support for the candidacy of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in its current issue, the Washington Post reports. The newspaper’s entire front page is used for a lengthy defense of Trump’s run for the White House under the banner, “Make America Great…
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Autistic NY Black Teen Gets Lost Running 5K, Assaulted by Man Afraid of Getting Mugged
A 15-year-old autistic athlete running a 5K was assaulted by a man who apparently thought the teen was going to rob his wife, the Washington Post reports. Chase Coleman loved being part of his cross-country team, and his mother, Clarice, said that she fully supported his passion. She is thankful that the nearly nonverbal, autistic…
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Former Tuskegee Airman Audley Coulthurst Dies at Age 92
Another former member of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen has died. Audley Coulthurst passed away Thursday at a Veterans Affairs facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., after suffering cardiac arrest, his daughter, Audra Coulthurst, said, the Associated Press reports. He was 92. According to the report, Coulthurst enlisted in the Army in 1942, ultimately becoming one of the…
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'Kill N–gers' Scrawled on Whiteboard on Fla. University Campus
A Florida university campus has been left in shock after a threatening sentence was left scrawled on a whiteboard on campus, accompanied by a graphic drawing, WBBH reports. According to the report, the problematic image showed up about two weeks ago and the culprit is still unknown. The image was found at Florida Gulf Coast University…
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High School Student Disciplined in Miss. Noose Incident
A Mississippi high school student has been disciplined following allegations that white students put a noose around the neck of a black football player and “yanked backward,” the Associated Press reports. Officials acknowledged that Stone High School’s conduct code was violated in the Oct. 13 incident, school-district attorney Sean Courtney said, adding that one student has…
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Fla. Department of Education Puts Teacher on Probation After Racist, Lewd Jokes
A Florida middle school teacher was put on probation and ordered to pay a fine after reportedly making racist and lewd jokes during class, according to WFTV. Lauren Ulseth no longer teaches at Lawton Chiles Middle School in Seminole County, where she used to be a technology-education teacher. The Florida Department of Education, which put her on…
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Another White Student Posts Photos in Blackface on Social Media
Another day, another white college student caught in blackface on social media. The latest incident has sparked student body and community outrage at Xavier University in Cincinnati, after the image of a white female student in blackface went viral, Raw Story reports. The caption under the problematic Snapchat photo read, “Who needs white when black…