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  • Emmett Till's Casket Is ‘One of Our Most Sacred Objects’ at African-American History Museum 

    Curating for a museum is no doubt a difficult job, and one of the more difficult decisions that Lonnie Bunch III—founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture—remembers grappling with was whether to include the casket that once held the brutalized remains of Emmett Till. “I remember struggling with, ‘Should we…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Noose Display Along Okla. Highway Shocks Drivers

    A controversial warning that included three nooses put up on private property along Highway 75 in Oklahoma was taken down after social media began to take notice of the display, NewsOn6 reports. According to the report, the nooses, which were hung on a tree, accompanied a sign that read, “It’s best not to be hanging…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • NM Restaurant Is Now Selling 'Black Olives Matter' Shirts, Hats

    Paisano’s Italian restaurant in Albuquerque, N.M., is back at it again with the stirring of the controversial pot, now selling “Black Olives Matter” shirts and hats, after sparking outrage and national headlines, KOAT reports. The controversy started last month when the Italian spot posted the slogan on a sign outside, claiming to promote its tapenade,…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Lawyer: NC Man Who Fatally Shot Black Man After 911 Call About 'Hoodlums' Is 'George Zimmerman 2.0' 

    The lawyer for the family of a black man who was shot and killed in North Carolina after a 911 call reporting “hoodlums” in a Raleigh neighborhood has blasted the alleged shooter as “George Zimmerman 2.0,” CBS News reports. Chad Cameron Copley, 39, who is white, fired his shotgun from inside his garage early Sunday…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Accused Charleston, SC, Shooter Dylann Roof Attacked by Inmate

    Accused Charleston, S.C., mass church shooter Dylann Roof was assaulted by a fellow inmate at the Cannon Detention Center in South Carolina while in the shower Thursday morning, the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office confirmed, the Post and Courier reports. Roof, 22, who was medically evaluated at the detention center, was not seriously injured in the…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Black Volunteer Firefighter's Home Engulfed in Flames 2 days After Receiving Racist, Threatening Note 

    A North Tonawanda, N.Y., volunteer firefighter who was threatened by a racist letter found in his mailbox Monday lost everything in a fire at his home Wednesday morning, WGRZ reports. Kenneth Walker and his family are safe, but two cats died in the fire damage, and the family lost all their possessions. According to the…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Racist Message Delivered to Charter Cable Customers in North Texas 

    Charter Spectrum is investigating how a racist message was sent through set-top boxes to some of its North Texas customers earlier this week, disturbing the individuals who saw it, WFAA8 reports. “When I first pulled it up I was like, ‘What? What?’” April Taylor, who recently became a Charter customer, told the news station. “I…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Ala. Pastor Says He Was Fired for Wanting to Invite Black People to Church 

    A Butler, Ala., pastor believes that his recent termination has a lot to do with race, WTOK reports. Former Mount Sterling Baptist Church Pastor Jonathan Greer, who was unanimously voted out of the church late Sunday, told the news station that the pushback came after a deacon told him he could not invite black children to…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Woman Shouts N-Word, Spits on Black Couple at Chicago's Margarita Festival 

    Ernest and Cassie Crim, both high school teachers in Chicago, said they were just looking forward to a weekend of adult fun at Chicago’s Margarita Festival, one “last summer hurrah before we went back to school,” according to Mic. However, the site reports, the July 30-31 event turned sour after the couple, who are black, said…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Yale May Reconsider Keeping Name of Calhoun College

    It seems that the name of Calhoun College at Yale is still up for debate. The university has announced that it may revisit the decision to keep the name of the residential college, which was named after 19th-century alumnus John C. Calhoun, a known and ardent supporter of slavery, the Associated Press reports. Originally, despite students’…

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    Breanna Edwards

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