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Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio Charged With Criminal Contempt of Court
Longtime Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio was officially charged with criminal contempt of court Tuesday for ignoring a judge’s order to stop profiling Latinos in his signature immigration patrols, the Associated Press reports. Although prosecutors promised two weeks ago to prosecute Arpaio, the charge was not officially filed until U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton…
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Miss. NAACP: White Students Put Noose Around Black Student's Neck, 'Yanked Backward'
White students at a Mississippi high school put a noose around a black schoolmate’s neck and “yanked backward,” the state NAACP revealed Monday, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, Mississippi NAACP spokesperson Ayana Kinnel said the incident took place Oct. 13 at a field house at the Stone County High School in Wiggins,…
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Fundraiser to Replace Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Memorial Sign Exceeds $15,000 Goal
A fundraiser started to replace a memorial sign marking the place where Emmett Till’s brutalized body was discovered in Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River in 1955 has exceeded its $15,000 goal, the New York Daily News reports. The memorial sign captured nationwide attention last week after filmmaker Kevin Wilson Jr. posted a photo showing the sign riddled with…
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Hate Rising: Jorge Ramos Delves Deep Into Racial Hatred in America
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has been thinking a lot about hate recently. Ever since Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ejected the Mexican immigrant, who is also an American citizen, from a press conference in August 2015 with a dismissive “Go back to Univision,” the experience has been on his mind. “Just a few seconds later,…
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5 Teens Charged in Vandalism of Historic African-American Schoolhouse in Va.
Five Virginia teens have been charged in the racist vandalism of a historic African-American schoolhouse, WJLA reports. The Ashburn Colored School, now called the Old Ashburn Schoolhouse, was built in 1892, and earlier this month it was defaced with “white power” signs, swastikas, drawing of genitals and other derogatory messages. The five teens were identified earlier this…
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Emmett Till Memorial Sign Discovered Riddled With Bullet Holes
A memorial sign that marks the location where Emmett Till’s brutalized body was discovered in a Mississippi river in 1955 was found riddled with bullet holes, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, it is not the first time that the sign has been vandalized since it was put in place in…
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Veteran TV Reporter Confronts Man Who Called Him the N-Word
A Virginia man was arrested, charged with harassing a veteran Charlotte, N.C., TV reporter during a confrontation in Charleston, S.C., the Charlotte Observer reports. Brian Eybers, 21, is being held in the Charleston County Detention Center and is due in court Friday on charges of disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia in the form of a…
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Woman Who Used N-Word, Spit on Black Couple at Chicago Festival Charged With Hate Crime
A white woman who shouted racial slurs at a black couple in a video that went viral over the summer is now facing a hate crime charge, DNAinfo reports. Jessica Sanders, 26, was arrested last week and charged with a hate crime and battery, according to the report. Her bail has been set at $50,000.…
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Pa. Mayor Who Posted Racist Obama Memes to Resign
The West York (Pa.) Council has unanimously accepted Mayor Charles Wasko’s offer to resign following controversy after the mayor posted racist Obama memes to his Facebook, the York Daily Record reports. According to the Daily Record, the vote was accepted to a round of applause from a crowd that had gathered in council chambers Monday…
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Minn. Woman Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Another Woman for Speaking Swahili
A Minnesota woman has taken a plea deal and pleaded guilty to assaulting another woman in a restaurant just because that woman was speaking Swahili, the Associated Press reports. In October 2015, Jodie Burchard-Risch smashed her glass beer mug in Asma Jama’s face while at an Applebee’s in Coon Rapids, Minn., injuring Jama. According to…